Robert Redford was getting ready to shoot The Natural in 1983 when he found out his daughter’s boyfriend Sid Wells had been murdered.
Shauna Redford, a 22-year-old student at University of Colorado Boulder, was “convulsed with confusion, in a terrible state,” the actor recalled to biographer Michael Callan. So he immediately left the set of his film in Buffalo, N.Y., to be with her, chartering a jet and picking up wife Lola Van Wagenen from their home in Utah along the way.
Wells had been found dead from a .22-gauge shotgun wound to the back of his head in the living room of his Boulder condo on Aug. 1, 1983.
Shauna started dating Wells during their freshman year of college after he asked her to a Navy ROTC dance, unaware at the time she was the daughter of a movie star.
And while she was devastated, her father was also shaken by the tragedy.
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