He arrived late for the first rehearsal, roaring in on his motorcycle, dressed in jeans, a dirty T-shirt, and a large safety pin holding his fly together. “He was exactly what I expected. A junior version of Marlon Brando. He mumbled so you could hardly hear what he was saying, and he seemed very exotic and eccentric and attractive.” Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad.
Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf at her Laurel Canyon home, 1957.
Natalie Wood, James Dean, and Nick Adams review their notes behind the scenes of “Rebel Without a Cause,” 1955.
Natalie Wood is photographed by Ralph Crane eating Chinese food, 1957.
Natalie Wood videographed by David Wolper on set of “Sex and the Single Girl,” for his short film, “Hollywood’s Child,” 1964.
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Natalie Wood photographed in her Laurel Canyon home by Earl Leaf, 1957.
Natalie Wood photographed at the opening of “the Boys in the Band,” 1969.
Natalie Wood photographed by Ernst Haas at singing rehearsals for “West Side Story,” circa 1961.
Natalie Wood photographed at the Cocoanut Grove Club, 1963.
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.