Natalie Wood In “Love With The Proper Stranger,” 1963.

Natalie Wood rehearses “the Sweetheart Tree,” on set of “the Great Race,” 1965.

James Dean & Natalie Wood in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Dir. Nicholas Ray

James Dean & Natalie Wood in Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

I’ve been a good little girl! A good little, good little girl! NATALIE WOOD breaks down in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)

Natalie Wood photographed for “the Great Race,” 1965.

NATALIE WOOD’S pink party dress in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)

She always seemed a little tentative, a little frightened. She was sweet and lovely, and I never heard her say a bad word about anybody, but she was not a boisterously happy person. She was kind of delicate, I always felt she was vulnerable, and sensitive,- which she was. Bev Long on Natalie Wood.

Natalie Wood / photo by Steve Schapiro, New York City, 1963.

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961, dir. Elia Kazan)

NATALIE WOOD in THE GREAT RACE dir. Blake Edwards