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Natalie Wood photographed at the Paris premiere of La Chasse à l’homme in September of 1964.
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
“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.”
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty at the 34th Academy Awards, 1962.
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.
Natalie Wood rehearses “the Sweetheart Tree,” on set of “the Great Race,” 1965.
“Noel Coward made a comment when they asked him what made a star. He said, ‘A star sparkles.’ And Natalie Wood sparkled.” Co-star Bob Arthaud on Natalie Wood
Happy Birthday to Natalie Wood, born Natalie Zacharenko on July 20th of 1938!
Natalie Wood at her Grauman’s Chinese Theatre imprint ceremony, 1961.
Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray for Life Magazine, 1963.
Natalie Wood and James Dean photographed in between takes of Rebel Without a Cause, 1955.
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Screen Test
Natalie Wood photographed by Ernst Haas at singing rehearsals for “West Side Story,” circa 1961.
“When Warren Beatty came to the set, “she’d sit on his lap and she’d whisper in his ear and he would reassure her… She just had this power over him. He adored her.”
Natalie Wood rehearses “the Sweetheart Tree,” on set of “the Great Race,” 1965.
Rebel Without a Cause 1955, dir. Nicholas Ray
I’ve been a good little girl! A good little, good little girl! NATALIE WOOD breaks down in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)
“She had a great sense of humor. Her humor was cute, really cute. There was nothing stuck-up about Natalie. She never had the attitude of a movie star—and I have seen some mean divas. I was spoiled by Natalie. Like I said, she was my first star. I thought all the rest of the stars would be like that, but they never were. They never were. . . .”
Photographer Michael Childers on Natalie Wood.
Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961)
Natalie Wood pinning up photos of her late co-star James Dean on her vanity mirror, 1955.