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Natalie Wood in “Love With the Proper Stranger,” 1963.

Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) dir. Robert Mulligan

Natalie Wood and Robert Redford discuss a scene with director Sydney Pollack (not pictured), on set of “This Property is Condemned,” 1966.

Natalie Wood in a film still for “Splendor in the Grass,” 1961.

Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf in her Laurel Canyon home, 1957.

Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray, 1963.

Natalie Wood / photo by Steve Schapiro, New York City, 1963.

Natalie Wood and Dyan Cannon attend the opening of the 1969 New York Film Festival.

Natalie Wood in a promotional photo for “Penelope,” 1966.

Dominick, I really owe you an apology, you know? I really do. All this time, I’ve been blaming you for everything. You ruining my life and all that. Well, that’s over now. You know why I’ve never been able to leave home? I just suddenly figured it out. Very complicated. I was scared. And I’m not scared anymore. I’m terrified. Funny?

NATALIE WOOD as Angie Rossini in Love with the Perfect Stranger (1963) dir. Robert Mulligan

Natalie Wood photographed getting her makeup adjusted behind the scenes of “Gypsy,” 1962.

Natalie Wood photographed “rehearsing for Gypsy as if it were Otello,” 1962.

Natalie Wood photographed by Henri Bureau at Orly Airport, 1964.

Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf at her Laurel Canyon home, 1957.

Natalie Wood photographed in between takes of “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” 1969.

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

Natalie Wood photographed with a guinea pig behind the scenes of “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” 1969.

Natalie Wood photographed by Earl Leaf in the bathtub at her Laurel Canyon home, 1956.

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

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

Natalie Wood and her then-husband Robert Wagner photographed by Peter Basch, 1957.

“In July, [Frank] Sinatra cohosted with R.J. an extravagant surprise twenty-first birthday party for Natalie at Romanoff’s, serenading her in song with Dean Martin.”

Excerpt from Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad; Natalie Wood photographed at her 21st birthday party, 1959.

Natalie Wood photographed by Phil Stern rehearsing the final scene of “West Side Story,” 1960.

Natalie Wood photographed by Allan Grant for Life Magazine, preparing for the 1962 Academy Awards.

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

Natalie Wood photographed in a promotional photo for “Sex and the Single Girl,” 1964.

“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.”

“She was divine to look at, and to photograph,” recalls Ray, “She had that wonderful face, a great body, those amazing eyes, and just a beautiful young woman, and a lot of fun to be around.”

Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray for Life Magazine, 1963.

Natalie Wood in Love With the Proper Stranger, 1963

“While Natalie hero-worshipped [Nick] Ray, she was in awe of Dean... “He was all she could talk about. Every night for weeks in a row, she went to see “East of Eden”— she must have seen it over fifty times. She even taught me to play the theme song from the picture on the piano.” According to Natalie’s tutor, “She would hang around him as much as possible... she was very flirtatious with him.” ’

Excerpt from Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad; Natalie Wood gets James Dean’s autograph on set of “Rebel Without a Cause,” 1955.

Dean, with blood on his shirt, signs Natalie Wood’s suede autograph jacket. He was her 100th co-star to sign. Wood’s mother later burned the signatures with a hot needle for posterity.

Natalie Wood in “Love With the Proper Stranger,” 1963.