Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood, right, with her sister, Lana Wood, when they were children.
The daughter of Russian immigrants, Wood was born Natasha Gurdin
on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, Calif.

Actor Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle greets actress Natalie Wood in a scene
from the 1947 Christmas classic, "Miracle on 34th Street." She got her first
role at the age of 4 in a movie called "Happy Land" (1943). By 1946, age 8,
she was making $1,000 a week

Actress Jane Wyatt fixes the hair ribbon for actress Natalie Wood in Hollywood, Calif.,
on Oct. 26, 1949. Wood continued playing roles of young girls until the age of 17,
where she landed the role of Judy in the film "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955),
opposite James Dean and Sal Mineo.

Natalie Wood pictured in 1955.
In 1950, she was the queen of fan magazines and the second biggest actress
next to Elizabeth Taylor. Durign her career, Wood made 56 films for TV and
Cinema, among them "West Side Story" (1961) in which she played Maria.
She married three times, twice to US actor Robert Wagner.

Natalie Wood and actor Robert Wagner cut their wedding cake
after their wedding in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Dec. 28, 1957.

Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as Maria and Tony
in the 1961 film, "West Side Story."

Natalie Wood poses in Yves Saint Laurent on Sept. 19, 1964, in Paris

Paul Newman and Natalie Wood with their statuettes
at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards dinner in Hollywood, Calif.,
February 1, 1966. Wood received the World Film Favorite, female, award,
Newman was honored with the World Film Favorite, male, award.

Natalie Wood during a trip to France in the 1960s

Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood at the Cannes Festival in May 1962.
They were promoting their film, "Splendour in the Grass," a drama about teen love.

Robert Wagner and former wife Natalie Wood, on board the Queen Elizabeth II in
April 1972, after a hectic storm at sea, where they announced that they would remarry.

Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner arrive at Nice airport in Nice, France on May 4, 1972.

Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood at the Dorchester Hotel
in London, England, April 23, 1972. The couple first married
in 1957 and divorced in 1962. They remarried in 1972 on their yacht "Splendour"
and were together until Wood's untimely death after falling off their yacht in 1981.
They had one daughter together, and each had a daughter from previous marriages.

Tennessee Williams, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner at the Cannes film festival in May 1976. Wood and Wagner starred in a television remake of Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Natalie Wood, her children Natasha, center, Courtney, right,
and her husband, Robert Wagner, arrive at London airport July 4, 1976.

Young Natalie Wood played the daughter of Gene Tierney in the spectral romantic fantasy "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (1947).

Natalie Wood with Orson Welles in "Tomorrow is Forever" (1946).

Natalie Wood and James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955). She received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as the girlfriend of Dean's troubled youth.

After spending years on the trail of an Indian party that kidnapped his young niece,
Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) finally comes upon Debbie, now 15 (played by Natalie Wood)
in the John Ford classic "The Searchers" (1956), which also starred Jeffrey Hunter.

Natalie Wood starred with Gene Kelly in the romantic drama "Marjorie Morningstar" (1958).

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Natalie Wood and husband Robert Wagner are made up for their roles in
"All The Fine Young Cannibals," in Los Angeles on Nov. 25, 1959.

Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty in "Splendor in the Grass" (1961).
Wood received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for the tale of forbidden love.

Richard Beymer as Tony and Natalie Wood as Maria in the Oscar-winning musical
"West Side Story" (1961). The film received 11 Academy Awards.

Natalie Wood starred as the stripper Louise Hovick - a.k.a. Gypsy Rose Lee - in the film version of the musical "Gypsy" (1962), which also starred Rosalind Russell as "Mama Rose."

Natalie Wood in 1963.