Natalie Wood Views Her Reflection On Set Of “the Great Race,” 1965.

Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf attending the Thalians Beach Ball. Malibu Beach, 1956.

Natalie Wood photographed by Edward Quinn at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, 1962.

Natalie Wood photographed in London by Terry O’Neil for Vogue, circa 1966.

He arrived late for the first rehearsal, roaring in on his motorcycle, dressed in jeans, a dirty T-shirt, and a large safety pin holding his fly together. “He was exactly what I expected. A junior version of Marlon Brando. He mumbled so you could hardly hear what he was saying, and he seemed very exotic and eccentric and attractive.” Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad.

“The next day, she ... went to see Dean in “East of Eden,” which had opened at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. “She walked out and said, ‘I’m gonna marry him.’ Natalie later admitted she had ‘a big crush’ on Dean. “I remember going with my school girlfriends to see East of Eden like fifteen times, sitting there sobbing when he tried to give the money to his father. We knew every word by heart.”

Miracle on 34th Street (1947) dir. George Seaton

Natalie Wood at the Cannes Film Festival (by Paul Schutzer. France, 1962).

Natalie Wood photographed napping with a beloved stuffed toy tiger, 1957. Natalie amassed quite a large collection of tigers in her youth, so much so that her friends and family began to call her “Tiger.”

Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf at her Laurel Canyon home, 1957.

Natalie Wood / photo by Sam Shaw, New York City, 1961.