WEST SIDE STORY (1961) Dir. Robert Wise

Natalie Wood photographed by Ernst Haas in dance rehearsals for “West Side Story,” 1961.

Natalie Wood photographed during a telephone conversation. Bill Ray, 1963.

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

Natalie Wood eating Chinese food, Ralph Crane, 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.”

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

When I saw The Umbrellas of Cherbourg again a few years ago, it struck me: it’s exactly the same ending as in Splendor in the Grass. I adore that film. It’s one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever seen in the cinema. And the end scene is exactly the same as in Umbrellas. He is on the farm, with his dungarees, his wife, the child and she comes back…it was so moving to see that resemblance. I think it is one of the maddest, most audacious films on the subject of love. Particularly for a man to bring a young woman to life in such a way! Splendor in the Grass is so much about unbridled love. The idea that loving can make you insane. That is what happens: you become insane! Going as far as to see her leave for the hospital, because she is dying of love, she wants to die! That film knocked me over. - Catherine Deneuve

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

Natalie Wood photographed by Ernst Haas in voice lessons for “West Side Story,” 1960.

Natalie Wood photographed during the filming of “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” 1969.