Trivia

From 2010 to 2019, Robert Wagner played the father of Michael Weatherly (who plays Wagner in this movie) on the TV series NCIS (2011).

Director Peter Bogdanovich was initially reluctant to produce a biopic, because he was unsatisfied about being the subject of a biopic himself, in Star 80 (1983). He explained: "I didn't know if I wanted to do it, because I knew the people a little bit. I'd met Natalie a few times, nodded at her at parties, and the same thing with Robert Wagner. I also knew I didn't like being portrayed in the films about Dorothy Stratten. But then I decided: Somebody's gonna do this, and I thought I'd be more sensitive because of my experiences. Besides, by then I had fallen in love with Natalie and her work . . . . . her performances are brilliant, really brilliant. I realized she was really underrated as an actress - and that, up until then, I had been one of the people who underrated her."

Sophie Monk who plays Marilyn Monroe worked as an impersonator of the actress at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast in Australia after her high school graduation.

Justine Waddell interviewed people who knew Natalie Wood to prepare for her role.

This miniseries aired in two parts in Europe and Australia but was shown as an edited three-hour (with commercials) TV movie on ABC in North America.