[65], In 2013, former FBI agent Donald G. Wilson claimed that he and Wood had had a four-year affair, from 1973 to 1977, that began when she was pregnant with Courtney Wagner. The latest Tweets from Natalie Woods (@NatalieWoods22): "https://t.co/q5EmYLscus" Natalie Woods Stanyer on Instagram: "I love this man! It is alleged that Wagner who, like Walken, has said almost nothing about that night didn't call for help for more than two hours. [86] Olivier flew in from London in order to attend the service. She appeared as a teenager on episodes of The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, Public Defender, Mayor of the Town, Four Star Playhouse, The Ford Television Theatre, and General Electric Theater, and also appeared in a TV version of Heidi. I also think Id have been able to handle it better if I were older and a bit more experienced., In 1961, Wood co-starred with heartthrob actor Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass, for which she earned her first Oscar nomination. On Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood, she revealed (via Daily Mail ) that like many survivors in the #MeToo movement, Natalie was sexually assaulted by a powerful, unnamed . Although she said it was 'too painful' to recall exactly what caused their break-up, 'it was more than a final straw, it was reality crushing the fragile web of romantic fantasies with sledgehammer force'. They had overcome each other's problems and had reached an accommodation with time and the changes time brings.". However, she revealed more in a passage about why she so related to Daisy Clover, the character she played in the 1965 film Inside Daisy Clover. After their split in 1964, Wood struggled with some mental health issues. I still like it when I see it," wrote Kazan.[45]. "[28], Wood, then seven years old, got the part. They welcomed daughter Courtney in 1974. [87], The case was reopened in November 2011 after Davern publicly stated that he had lied to police during the initial investigation and that Wood and Wagner had an argument that evening. [24] In 1942, they bought a home in Santa Rosa, where Wood was noticed by members of a crew during a film shoot downtown. 'Daisy becomes a movie star, falls in love with a handsome man who is attracted to other men, and she discovers this flaw on her honeymoon,' she wrote. After marrying in 1970, the pair had a daughter named Natasha. [2] Her former "childlike sweetness" was now being combined with a noticeable "restlessness that was characteristic of the youth of the 1950s. [54] She was announced for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden but did not appear in it. Filming The Great Rae took its toll on her and she attempted suicide after filming wrapped, her daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner reveals in the documentary. "[40] "Her roles raised the possibility that one's sensitivity could mark a person as a kind of victim," noted Tibbetts.[2]. ", She was leading lady to Frank Sinatra in Kings Go Forth (1958) then refused roles and was put on suspension by Warners. Wood who had been lookingforward to an imminent holiday in Italy with Wagner, her first ever trip abroad became hysterical, smashing a crystal glass in her hand and fleeing in her nightgown to a neighbour's house, from where she phoned her mother. She was just 11 years old at the time of her mother's death. The police stated that they know that Wagner was the last person to be with Wood before she disappeared. Movies. Ten years later, the movie world would be shocked when the body of Lana's real-life 43-year-old sister Natalie Wood was found floating lifeless in the ocean off Catalina Island on the morning of Nov. 29, 1981. Natalie Wood (ne Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles.. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Tatuloff, Alexander (September 17, 1934). If you feel called to help, in lieu of flowers, this page has been created to help Jennifer and family pay for funeral costs as well as the Celebration of Life event. Lana, who was 15, remembers Natalie arriving at their parents' home that night, her hand bleeding, sobbing that her marriage was over. [17] Her mother was previously married to Armenian mechanic Alexander Tatuloff from 1925 to 1936. Unlike Natalie, however, Natasha has downplayed the glamour and displays a quirky, ditsy-like appeal. Wood's best-known film as a child was Miracle on 34th Street (1947), starring Maureen O'Hara at Fox. Natalie Wood's Life in Photos - Pictures of Natalie Wood. A friend of Wood would homophobically complain, even in her presence, about the 'f*****' keeping house for them. Dennis Davern later claimed Wagner had stopped him looking for Wood or calling for help, telling the skipper that it would 'teach her a lesson'. The discovery of her body only yielded more questions than answers. Despite the brief part, she attracted the notice of the director, Irving Pichel. Natalie Woods Stanyer Native Texan TV Personality Former Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader The Blaze - Chad Prather Podcast co-host Hot News . How Natalie Wood found her husband in flagrante with their English butler: Her death sparked a 40-year mystery after a drunken night with husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken ended. [65], During a 12-part podcast about Wood's life in July 2018, Wood's sister Lana said that Woods was raped as a teenager, and that the attack had occurred inside the Chateau Marmont during an audition and went on "for hours". ET on HBO2, on May 10 at 11:30 a.m. A Splash of Excess in a Tasteful Fashion Week. Wood met her eventual first husband Robert Wagner (who everyone called "RJ") around the movie studio when she was a teenager, but they didn't go out until she was of age the 26-year-old. Because Gregson had left for his home country of England after his split from Natalie, Wagner adopted Natasha and she considers them both to be her father. According to Tibbetts, this was the first film in which "the saving leavening of humor was brought to bear upon the many painful dilemmas portrayed in her adult films."[2]. In one of her last interviews before her death, she was defined as "our sexual conscience on the silver screen". AT61 1 yr. ago Natalie Woods is a Patriot with a mind of her own. It seemed to be that they should be together. They welcomed daughter Natasha in 1970 and the documentary says that was the downfall of their marriage Wood was so enamored with her daughter and with being a mother that Gregson started to feel like there was no room for him. Advertisement. Tweet. Natalie Wood's love life reads like a who's who of Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s. In The Great Race, her ability to speak Russian was an asset given to her character Maggie DuBois, justifying the character's recording the progress of the race across Siberia and entering the race at the beginning as a contestant. I call him Daddy Gregson. "I don't believe it was premeditated," the 75-year-old said to The New York Post. Of course, in 1961 any such revelations would have destroyed his career. Wood had to sign to a long-term contract with Warner Bros. but she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The circumstances surrounding actress Natalie Wood's 1981 death have long . Natalie Wood's marriage to film producer Richard Gregson was fruitful but incredibly short-lived. If you're curious about reading into Natalie's life a bit more than what you may have known about her on the silver screen, we've got all the answers for you. Poor R.J. [Wagner], I said to myself. After she swallowed the pills, she banged on Marts door so obviously, she wanted to live, says Gregson Wagner. At the time of her death in 1981, Natalie Wood was on a yacht with her then-husband, actor Robert Wagner, as well as Christopher . Hewould play the dreamy straight boy for the teenage girls.'. The actress was yachting with her husband and co-star Christopher Walken when she disappeared and drowned. Her mother was of Russian heritage and was christened Natalia but affectionately nicknamed Natasha during her childhood -- hence, the name. The ball really started rolling with her standout role as the feisty, street-savvy Lou in the improvisation-styled romantic triangle Two Girls and a Guy (1997). A few weeks before her fifth birthday, Wood made her uncredited film debut in a fifteen-second scene in the film Happy Land (1943). She starred in The Memory of Eva Ryker, released in May 1980, which proved to be her last completed production. She was 43. Natalie Wood in 'The Cracker Factory' 14K followers. He credits that with saving his life. "[27], Wood's mother continued to play a significant role in her daughter's early career, coaching her and micromanaging aspects of her career even after Wood acquired agents. It's a shame to have seen such talent lost at an early age, but at the very least it does appear she passed while in a stable relationship with a happy family (despite the ancillary accusations). She guest starred in episodes of Conflict. Wood was one of Hollywood's most radiant stars but left one of its darkest mysteries. She played a post-World War II German orphan, opposite Orson Welles as Wood's guardian and Claudette Colbert, in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946). [23] After she started acting as a child, RKO executives David Lewis and William Goetz changed her surname to "Wood" to make it more appealing to English-speaking audiences and as a tribute to filmmaker Sam Wood. She plays a cynical girl who comes to believe a kindly department store holiday season employee portrayed by Edmund Gwenn is the real Santa Claus. "[43] She adds that a scene in the film, as a result of "Kazan's wizardry produced a hysteria in Natalie that may be her most powerful moment as an actress. [85], Wood was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. #husband #husbandandwife 216w camfab_lv Wow, you both have amazing eyes! In 1981, big screen legend Natalie Wood went missing from the yacht she shared with her husband, Robert Wagneronly to be found approximately six hours later, floating facedown in the Pacific. Los Angeles Times September 26, 1973: e17. Where in Rebel she falls in love with the character played by James Dean, whose gang-like peers and violent temper alienated him from his family, in West Side Story she enters into a romance with a white former gang member whose threatening world of outcasts also alienated him from lawful behavior."[2]. The three men on board initially said they'd assumed she had rowed back to shore. Natalie's body was found floating in the water off Santa Catalina Island on Nov. 29, 1981. Natalie Wood Still Up for Plum The Wood-Wagner household also sometimes hosted Wagners daughter Katie from his marriage to Marshall and Marshalls two sons to whom Wagner was a stepfather, Peter and Joshua, from Marshalls marriage to Stanley Donel. Wood acted in another film directed by Pichel, The Bride Wore Boots, and went on to 20th Century Fox to play Gene Tierney's daughter in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). [2] In all, Wood appeared in over twenty films as a child. Graveside Service: March 18th at 9 A.M. Must be at the cemetery at 9 A.M. for the funeral procession to begin. [39] She returned to be leading lady to James Garner in Cash McCall (1960). Natalie Wood's younger sister wrote in her upcoming memoir that Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted the Hollywood actress in 1955 when she was a teen. They had been dating already for around two and a half years ahead of their marriage, as Richard waited for his divorce to be finalized. Wagner was eight years older than her and single. [77], On November 29, 1981, Wood died under mysterious circumstances at age 43 during the making of Brainstorm. Wood, too, questioned the butler's presence and urged Wagner to dispense with him. Natalie's occupation has been discussed already, but her husband is in medical device sales. "[44] Actor Gary Lockwood, who also performed in the film, felt that "Kazan and Natalie were a terrific marriage, because you had this beautiful girl, and you had somebody that could get things out of her." She drowned during a drunken and chaotic cruise off the Californian coast. Wood appeared in 56 films for cinema and television. Her mother (who also used the names Mary, Marie, and Musia)[15] was from Barnaul. She earned three Oscar nominations by 25 before a tragic accident claimed her life at 43. She was with her husband Wagner and Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken. Wood reassured them that Wagner had changed after having 'analysis' in Europe. She was a damn good actress." In this period, Wood had more success in television, receiving high ratings and critical acclaim in 1979 for The Cracker Factory and especially the miniseries remake of From Here to Eternity (1979), with Kim Basinger and William Devane. When Wood was unable to cry on cue, her mother tore a butterfly to pieces in front of her to ensure she would sob for a scene. She was to represent the "restlessness of American youth in the 1950s", expressed by youth gangs and juvenile delinquency, along with early rock and roll. Wood played Maria, a restless Puerto Rican girl on the West Side of Manhattan, in West Side Story, Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's 1961 film of the stage musical, which was a critical and box-office success. Given such an ugly history, perhaps it's not surprising that, even as a star, Wood had a bedroom filled with 47 dolls that she believed were alive and spoke to her. Gregson Wagner says she and St. John talked about it in therapy and it was definitely a process, but they are all one big family now. Lana recalled that his name was David Cavendish. "She was a straight A student", and one of the few child actors to excel at arithmetic. As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance . Their studio, Warner Bros, obligingly pushed them together by arranging a first date on her 18th birthday. Powered by. Though it was technically her third marriage, it was her second relationship. Natalie Wood and James Dean in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. In between these she made Peeper (1975) with Michael Caine. He alleged that Wood had been flirting with Walken, that Wagner was jealous and enraged, and that Wagner had prevented Davern from turning on the search lights and notifying authorities after Wood's disappearance. Walken, now 76, has been married to Georgianne Thon since 1969 but has hinted that he is bisexual. In his 2008 memoir, Wagner claimed to have had affairs with a long string of A-listers, from Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor to Anita Ekberg, Joan Collins and Barbara Stanwyck, among many others. Quarry, who appeared with him in the 1956 film A Kiss Before Dying (in which, ironically, Wagner played a man who pushes his fiancee to her death from the roof of a building), said the 'pretty boy' star would come off set and put his arm around whichever young actress the studio was promoting as his girlfriend, posing for photographers like a man in love. Copyright 2023 Distractify. Her parents separated before Natasha was even a year old and when Natalie remarried Wagner a year later, Natasha was informally adopted by her famous stepdad. They have historically been known for great customer service and always helping out their community and loyal patrons. [82] According to Noguchi, Wood had been drinking and she may have slipped while trying to re-board the dinghy. Forty years ago, actress Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of Catalina Island. What's this business about her marrying the same man two different times? It's hardly surprising, therefore, that the young girl expressed an early interest in acting. She made a 'romantic pact' with Wagner possibly driven by her terror of being alone never to be separated. How is that possible? Trending. Stanyer will be recognized by Berri O'Neal, chair of the Panola College Alumni Association, and recipient of the 2016 Alumna of the Year, at the spring commencement ceremony scheduled for Thursday, May 10, at 5 p.m. in the Arthur Johnson Gymnasium. [65], On May 30, 1969, Wood married British producer Richard Gregson after dating for nearly three years. Natalie Woods Stanyer graduated from Panola College in 1997 with an associate of science degree. Authorities classified her death as an accident, concluding the 43-year-old star of . Finstad has just updated her book, including further evidence that the original investigation was a sham and that Wagner, who was best known in the UK for starring with Stefanie Powers in the TV detective series Hart To Hart, may have been responsible for his wife's death. Image: Natalie Wood wedding Richard Gregson. Natasha Gregson Wagner on the forthcoming HBO documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, in which she sits down with her stepfather to discuss her mother's tragic 1981 death. Watson has two sons from a previous marriage. Wood's death was initially ruled an accident, but her death certificate was amended in 2012 to change her cause of death from drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors." So its no surprise that her dating and marriage history boasts some of the brightest stars of the 1950s and 1960s. In it, Wood refuted rumours that the marriage ended because she was having an onset affair with Warren Beatty (the affair started after she separated from Wagner). Why We're All Obsessed With '90s . 194w Reply pilcz_janos 194w Reply a109driver When did he fly Blackhawks? [66], After a short-lived romance with future California governor Jerry Brown, Wood resumed her relationship with Wagner at the end of January 1972. Good for her. She reportedly had an affair with 38-year-old Frank Sinatra when she was 15; and, a year older, was 'forced' into a sexual relationship with the 43-year-old director Nicholas Ray to prove she could play a 'bad girl' in Rebel Without A Cause. HBORobert Wagner, Jill St. John, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Katie Wagner, Courtney Wagner. [57], At the time of her death, Wood was filming the $15 million science fiction film Brainstorm (1983), co-starring Christopher Walken and directed by Douglas Trumbull.[58]. [61] Following her death, Time magazine noted that although critical praise for Wood had been sparse throughout her career, "she always had work". [73][74] Through the recollection of Wood's close friends, which included actors Scott Marlowe and Dennis Hopper, Finstad said: Though her five close friends' memories of some details or timing differ after forty-five years, the essence of what each recalls Natalie confiding to them is the same: that the same married film star lured or tricked Natalie, raped her so brutally she was physically injured, and she was too frightened or intimidated to report it to the police. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Her mother, Maria, was simply delighted that she had become so close to such a powerful industry figure. In the documentary, Wood recounts how she had a crush on him at the age of 10 and told her mother that she wanted to marry him when she grew up. Guest Natalie Woods-Stanyer discusses life as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, her close encounter with a murderer and how it is to work with Chad Prather!Conne. That said, one might ask who was jealous of whom, given what happened at a restaurant on Santa Cantalina island earlier in the evening of Wood's last fateful night in 1981 and later the same evening on their 60ft yacht, the Splendour. READ NEXT: Natalie Woods Death: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Natalie Woods Husbands & Lovers, From Warren Beatty to Robert Wagner, Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. El cuerpo de Wood, de 43 aos, apareci flotando en aguas de la isla de Santa Catalina, en el sur de California, en la maana del 29 de noviembre de 1981, no lejos del yate Splendour, en el que . In David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) she turned heads as Balthazar Getty's cheating girlfriend, and played an adulterous wife in Quiet Days in Hollywood (1997). [2], Biographer Suzanne Finstad wrote that a "turning point" in Wood's life as an actress took place when she saw the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): "She was transformed, in awe of director Elia Kazan and of Vivien Leigh's performance [who] became a role model for Natalie. Natalie and Robert remained married until the actress passed away. The comments below have not been moderated, By For a brief time, they were happythat is, until Gregson dealt Wood a terrible betrayal. By age nine, she had been named the "most exciting juvenile motion picture star of the year" by Parents magazine. That did it. Check Background Get Contact Info This Is Me - Edit The film was released posthumously on September 30, 1983, and was dedicated to Wood in the closing credits. As Marjorie Morningstar, Wood played the role of a young Jewish girl in New York City who has to deal with the social and religious expectations of her family as she tries to forge her own path and separate identity. Wood was with Wagner, Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, and Splendour's captain Dennis Davern on the evening of November 28. Among the celebrities were Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly, Elia Kazan, and Laurence Olivier. 1,107 following. [23] They were married in February 1938, five months before Wood was born. Natalie Woods and Joseph Stanyer Wedding Registry Natalie Woods and Joseph Stanyer from SOUTHLAKE, TX have registered at for their wedding on June 28, 2014. After another lengthy break, she appeared in the ensemble disaster film Meteor (1979) with Sean Connery and the sex comedy The Last Married Couple in America (1980) with George Segal and Valerie Harper. After winning a starring role at the age of eight in Miracle On 34th Street, she had earned three Oscar nominations before she was 25. [93] Forensic pathologist Michael Hunter speculated that Wood was particularly susceptible to bruising because she had taken the drug Synthroid. Officials said that it is possible that she was assaulted before she drowned. While a waitress said Wood and Walken were holding hands under the table, the manager who was gay saw the two male actors touching each other in a way that he 'recognised as flirting'. She was scheduled to make her stage debut on February 12, 1982, in Anastasia at Ahmanson Theatre with Wendy Hiller. When she found out, she kicked him out. Seen more on TV, she appeared as a regular on the crime mystery series Pasadena (2001) and as a recurring character on the sci-fi series The 4400 (2004). She continued to guest star on anthology TV shows like Studio One in Hollywood, Camera Three, Kings Row, Studio 57, Warner Brothers Presents, and The Kaiser Aluminum Hour. Both films, he observes, were "modern allegories based on the 'Romeo and Juliet' theme, including private restlessness and public alienation. In 1972 she remarried Wagner, who had remained 'the symbol of a dream she hoped to recapture', ignoring the misgivings of family and friends who remembered how the first marriage ended. However, Wood was undeterred, determined to live the 'fairy-tale' romance she had imagined as a child with the 'handsome prince she'd fantasised about at 11' when she stuck a photograph of Wagner above her bed. 6811 The death of Natalie Wood remains unsolved as she had a mysterious death on 29 th November on 1981 as her dead body was found on 29 th November morning almost one mile away from the boat on which she along with her husband Robert Wagner, her co-star Christopher Walken and Dennis Davern traveled the previous night. Scudda Hay! Then she was given the lead in a prestigious project, Marjorie Morningstar (1958). Natalie Wood is an iconic name in Hollywood, having starred films like Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story with the likes of James Dean and other A-listers. Key Facts. [67] They remarried on July 16 aboard the Ramblin' Rose, anchored off Paradise Cove in Malibu. On the night of November 29, the three actors. She had been on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board her husband Robert Wagner's 58-foot (18m) motoryacht Splendour. They ended up marrying in the summer of 1972, just five months after reconciling and three months after Natalie's divorce from Richard. By And I said OK and I hung up the phone and that was it., Woods relationship with Beatty was notoriously tumultuous. In his 2008 memoir, the actor claimed that in 1961 he became so jealous of Warren Beatty not only a far more successful actor but then squiring his estranged wife he started waiting outside Beatty's house with a gun and was 'prepared to kill him'. I dont necessarily look at that night as a suicide attempt. Wood's mother became so excited that she "packed the whole family off to Los Angeles to live," writes Harris. My career was not igniting like hers was, but that wasnt really a very big factor in the fact that we separated and eventually divorced, says Wagner. On Nov. 29, 1981, the body of Natalie Wood, 43, was found floating in the ocean off Santa Catalina, where she had gone for a holiday weekend on a yacht with her husband, Robert ["R.J."] Wagner . "Until then I did what I was told," she said.[35]. Friends told Finstad that Wood never got over it, and it 'came close to destroying her'. She made a brief cameo appearance as herself in The Candidate (1972), working once more with Robert Redford. Natalie graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stephen F. Austin State University. Wood and Wagner were married until her death in 1981. She continued her affinity for the weird but compelling with the films Glam (1997), The Medicine Show (2001), Wishing Time (2003) and Wonderland (2003), the last one a sensationalized account of the true-life mass murder committed by Los Angeles dope dealers in which drug-ravaged porn star John Holmes was involved -- Natasha portrayed one of the victims.Divorced from DeVincentis, in 2012 Natasha gave birth to a daughter, Clover Clementyne (named after Natalie's film Inside Daisy Clover (1965)) by actor Barry Watson before marrying him in 2014. [62], Wood's two marriages to actor Robert Wagner were highly publicized. Wagner, now 90, has denied any involvement in her death. [81] Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi ruled the cause of her death to be accidental drowning and hypothermia. [26] He remained in contact with Wood's family for two years, advising them when another role came up. [7], Wood was born Natalie Zacharenko[n 1] in San Francisco, California, on July 20, 1938,[12] the daughter of Russian parents Maria Zudilova (19081998)[a] and Nicholas Zacharenko (19121980). Natalie's relationship status is married. Browse all their registries in one list. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. ET on HBO and HBO Latino, and Monday, May 11 at 1:30 p.m. At Wood's funeral, her coffin, decorated with a thousand gardenias, was carried by Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Fred Astaire and the director Elia Kazan. Actress Natalie Wood, famous for her impressive talent, started her career as a child actor. A year after tieing the knot, the happy couple welcomed their first child, Natasha. Dorothy Kilgallen:. Natalie "hated" her former screen idol afterward, "shuddering" if she heard his name. [68][69] In 2016, Wilson spoke on camera about his alleged affair with Wood in a documentary for the cable network Reelz. On December 28, 1957, her wish came true. They had a daughter, Natasha (born September 29, 1970). Director Sydney Pollack was quoted as saying about Wood, "When she was right for the part, there was no one better. (IMDb)Natalie Wood was a child actress, best known for the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, who went on to star in some of . "Coroner to the stars" Dr. Thomas Noguchi called her death an "accidental drowning," and police closed the case two . That opened the door for a second marriage, when Natalie married British producer Richard Gregson in 1969. [80][83] Her sister Lana expressed doubts, alleging that Wood could not swim and had been "terrified" of water all her life, and that she would never have left the yacht on her own by dinghy. In Last Married Couple, Wood broke ground: although an actress with a clean, middle-class image, she used the word fuck in a frank marital discussion with her husband (George Segal). 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