Natalie Wood At A Director’s Guild Dinner In Los Angeles, Circa 1956.

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

A candid shot of Natalie Wood at the premiere of “Splendor in the Grass,” circa 1961.

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, 1961

Natalie Wood in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1957, photo by Charlotte Brooks

Caption from LIFE. "Natalie’s big brown-black eyes grow larger with delight seeing costumes sketched by Edith Head for Sex and the Single Girl.“

Natalie Wood blowing bubble gum at Pop’s Oasis, in “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” 1969.

Natalie Wood and Robert Vaughn photographed at a Halloween party, 1956.

Natalie said her favorite scene in Rebel Without a Cause was one she shared with James Dean that was cut from the film.

“It was in the car. I was waiting for him and he comes up and we talk to each other. There was a section of the scene where I imply that I’ve sort of been around, that I’m not really pure.

I say to him, ‘Do you think that’s bad?’ And he says ‘No, I just think it’s lonely. It’s the loneliest time.’

I thought it was a wonderful line—right on the cutting room floor.”

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Natalie Wood photographed attending the 1968 Robert F. Kennedy Campaign Benefit Luncheon.

“I want to be a movie star,” a seven-year old Natalie Wood once told the press. Here at twenty-five, on the set of “Sex and the Single Girl,” her wish is fulfilled.”