NATALIE WOOD
The indescribable NATALIE WOOD 1938-1981 whose beauty and talent remains an indelible part of the American Dream.
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Claudette Colbert talks and points as she sits with her arm around American child actor Natalie Wood and holds a script during a rehearsal for a Lux Radio Theater program, Hollywood, California, 1946.
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1947, Kris Kringle played by Edmund Gwenn talks with Natalie at her bedside in director George Seaton's Xmas classic film, 'Miracle on 34th Street'.
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James Dean and Natalie Wood in a scene from the Warner Bros film 'Rebel Without A Cause' in 1955 in Los Angeles, California.
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Natalie wearing a long white split-skirt dress with white fur trim and a red bow, her leg exposed through the split, in a publicity portrait issued for the film, 'Gypsy', 1962. The drama, directed by Mervyn LeRoy starred Wood as stripper 'Louise 'Gypsy Rose Lee' Hovick'.
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Natalie Wood (R) and Dennis Hopper rehearsing a scene in front of a large movie screen.
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Robert Wagner, his wife Natalie Wood ( and host Frank Sinatra (in eyepatch) pose together during a surprise 21st birthday party held for Natalie at Romanoff's, Hollywood, California, July 20, 1959.
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Natalie in a scene from the film version of the Bernstein/Sondheim musical 'West Side Story', directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1960.
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Natalie in a frilly nightgown, circa 1960.
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Warren Beatty escorts costar Natalie from 'Splendor in the Grass' directed by Elia Kazan, through a crowd of photographers to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium where the 34th Annual Academy Awards presentation was held, Santa Monica, California, April 29, 1962. Natalie was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood and baby Courtney Wagner.
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Natalie who was afraid of water her entire life, posed sexily lounging on the deck of a sail boat.
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Natalie Wood (1938 - 1981) as she sits on a sofa and looks over her shoulder, late 1960s.
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