“Dear Audrey,

happy valentine’s day!

Sex and the Single Girl (1964) dir. Richard Quine

Natalie Wood photographed during a shopping trip in Roma, Italy. 1965.

Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf at Malibu Beach playing a game during the 1956 Thalian Beach Ball.

Natalie Wood at a party thrown by songwriter Jimmy McHughes, 1958.

Natalie Wood photographed at the opening of “the Boys in the Band,” 1969.

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

“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.”

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

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