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Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray for a 1963 issue of Life Magazine, “It was a dream come true assignment,” said Ray. “Wood was every inch a Movie Goddess.”
Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray, 1963.
Natalie Wood photographed during a telephone conversation. Bill Ray, 1963.
“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.
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 photographed in between takes of “Love With the Proper Stranger,” 1963. Photo by Bill Ray.
“Natalie plays a scene for laughs on the set of Sex and the Single Girl. “I’m much better in sad things than in comedies,” she mused in a 1966 journal entry. “My goal is to be able to convincingly play a happy lady.”
Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray on the set of Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray for Life Magazine, 1963.
Natalie Wood photographed by Bill Ray on a phone call while the artist Don Bachardi, “immortalizes her in sketch,” 1963.