Natalie Wood photographed in between takes of “Love With the Proper Stranger,” 1963. Photo by Bill Ray.
Natalie Wood pinning up photos of her late co-star James Dean on her vanity mirror, 1955.
Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray on a phone call while the artist Don Bachardi, “immortalizes her in sketch,” 1963.
Natalie Wood, James Dean, and Sal Mineo in a screen test for “Rebel Without a Cause,” 1955.
Screen test for Rebel Without a Cause.
Natalie Wood at a party thrown by songwriter Jimmy McHughes, 1958.
James Dean & Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Dir. Nicholas Ray
“I’m fine”
Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass (1961, dir. Elia Kazan)
Natalie Wood is photographed by Ralph Crane eating Chinese food, 1957.
“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.”