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1964

Natalie Wood, born Natalia Zakharenko on July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, Calif., starred in multiple films as a child and received her big break in the entertainment industry in 1947s “Miracle on 24th Street” when she became an instant child movie star at the age of four. Wood played Susan Walker and is still remembered today as the little girl who doubted Santa Claus in the classic Christmas film.Wood was unique in the fact that despite being a successful actress as a young child, she was still able to make an easy transition through adolescence without ever being out of work. Before the public knew it, Wood had blossomed from a pigtail-wearing kindergartener to a beautiful teenager capable of playing the love interest of many. She appeared in 18 films as a child. Her sister, Lana Wood, was also an actress and most notably a Bond girl. The beautiful screen legend retained her star status as a teenager and made a smooth transition to grown-up roles, thanks to films such as 1955s “Rebel Without a Cause,” in which she starred alongside James Dean. As Jim Stark and Judy, the on-screen couple personified the feelings of the restless mid-50s American youth, and the classic film truly became a movie for all time. As an on-screen film companion of James Dean and an off-screen companion of the incomparable Elvis Presley, Wood was admired and envied by many young girls of the day for both her relationships and her glamour. Her next film, The Searchers(1956), helped Wood to remain her superstar status as a teen actress as she starred alongside cowboy legend John Wayne. The Searchers was an epic Western film which told the story of Ethan Edwards, a bitter, middle-aged loner and Civil War veteran who spends many of his years “searching” for his abducted niece. The film turned out to be very influential in the movie world, inspiring other Western films, science fiction movies and even hollywood films throughout the years. The acting career of Wood continued to blossom, as she was adept at both comedy and serious drama. Some of her most well-known parts include her roles as Maria in the 1961 classic musical “West Side Story” and as Deanie in the critically acclaimed 1961 film “Splendor in the Grass.” Other significant films in which Wood starred include “Gypsy” (1962) and “Love With the Proper Stranger” (1963). After filming "This Property is Condemned" (1966), she stayed away from films for the following three years. She finally returned to acting to play the role of Carol Sanders in "Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice"(1969). Following that film, she made few appearances on television, but spent most of her time with her family and friends. Her only major role until 1980 was in the television mini-series "From Here to Eternity." Wood began filming for a film called "Brainstorm" in 1981, though the film was not released in 1983 and she unfortunately, did not live to see final version of the movie. The film was a science-fiction movie about a deranged husband and wife team who co-invent a special computer device which allows sensations and higher brain functions to be scanned directly from the brain. Wood was sailing off of Santa Catalina Island with her husband Robert Wagner and their friend, Christopher Walken, when she disappeared one evening, supposedly while trying to get into a dinghy. Wood’s body washed ashore the next morning and the cause of death which cut her successful and family-oriented life short was determined as drowning.

Natalie Wood in "Sex and the Single Girl"
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1964

Tomorrow is Forever (RKO, 1946).
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Orson Wells, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long, Natalie Wood, Ian Wolfe. (105 minutes, B&W.)

The Bride Wore Boots (Paramount, 1946).
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles, Peggy Wood, Robert Benchley, Willie Best, Natalie Wood. (86 minutes, B&W.)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (20th Century-Fox, 1947)
Cast: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Vanessa Brown, Anna Lee, Robert Coote, Natalie Wood, Isobel Elsom. (104 minutes, B&W.)

Miracle on 34th Street (20th Century-Fox, 1947)
Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan. (96 minutes, B&W (later colourised for TV).

Driftwood (Republic, 1947)
Cast: Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Natalie Wood, Jerome Cowan, H.B. Warner, Margaret Hamilton. (88 minutes, B&W.)

Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (20th Century-Fox, 1948)
Cast: June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Anne Revere, Natalie Wood, Henry Hull, Tom Tully (Marilyn Monroe's first screen appearance in a bit part). (95 minutes, Technicolor.)

Chicken Every Sunday (20th Century-Fox, 1948)
Cast: Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Young, Natalie Wood, William Frawley, Connie Gilchrist, Veda Ann Borg. (91 minutes, B&W.)

The Green Promise (RKO, 1949)
Cast: Marguerite Chapman, Walter Brennan, Robert Paige, Natalie Wood, Ted Donaldson, and Connie Marshal. (93 minutes, B&W.)

Father was a Fullback (20th Century-Fox, 1949)
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Betty Lynn, Rudy Vallee, Thelma Ritter, Natalie Wood, Jim Backus. (93 minutes, B&W.)

Our Very Own (RKO, 1950)
Cast: Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Donald Cook, Ann Dvorak, Natalie Wood, Gus Schilling, Phyllis Kirk, Martin Milner. (93 minutes, B&W.)

No Sad Songs for Me (Columbia, 1950)
Cast: Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood, John McIntire, Ann Doran, Richard Quine, Jeanette Nolan. (89 minutes, B&W.)

The Jackpot (20th Century-Fox, 1950)
Cast: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, James Gleason, Fred Clark, Alan Mowbray, Patricia Medina, Natalie Wood, Tommy Rettig. (85 minutes, B&W.)

Never a Dull Moment (RKO, 1950)
Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Gigi Perreau, Natalie Wood, Jack Kirkwood, Ann Doran. (89 minutes, B&W.)

Dear Brat (Paramount, 1951)
Cast: Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe, Edward Arnold, Lyle Bettger, Mary Philips, Natalie Wood, Lillian Randolph. (82 minutes, B&W.)

The Blue Veil (RKO, 1951)
Cast: Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead, Don Taylor, Audrey Totter, Cyril Cusack, Everett Sloane, Natalie Wood, Vivian Vance. (113 minutes, B&W.)

Just for You (Paramount, 1952)
Cast: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Ethel Barrymore, Robert Arthur, Natalie Wood, Cora Witherspoon, Ben Lessy, Regis Toomey. (104 minutes, Technicolor.)

The Rose Bowl Story (Monogram, 1952)
Cast: Marshall Thompson, Vera Miles, Richard Rober, Natalie Wood, Keith Larsen, Tom Harmon, Ann Doran, Jim Backus. Clarence Kolb. (73 minutes, Cinecolour.)

The Star (20th Century-Fox, 1953)
Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson, June Travis, Barbara Lawrence. (89 minutes, B&W.)

The Silver Chalice (Warner Brothers, 1954)
Cast: Paul Newman, Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Walter Hampden, Joseph Wiseman, Alexander Scourby, Lorne Greene, E.G. Marshall, Natalie Wood, Ian Wolfe, Albert Dekker. (144 minutes, CinemaScope & WarnerColour.)

One Desire (Universal, 1955)
Cast: Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Carl Benton Reid, Natalie Wood, William Hopper, Betty Garde. (94 minutes, Technicolor.)

Rebel Without a Cause (Warner Brothers, 1955)
Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Rochelle Hudson, William Hopper, Sal Mineo, Corey Allen, Dennis Hopper, Virginia Brissac, Ian Wolfe, Nick Adams, Edward Platt. (111 minutes, CinemaScope & WarnerColor.)

The Searchers (Warner Brothers, 1956)
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, John Qualen, Olive Carey, Henry Brandon, Harry Carey, Jr., Antonio Moreno, Dorothy Jordan, Lana Wood, Pat Wayne. (119 minutes, VistaVision & Technicolor.)

The Burning Hills (Warner Brothers, 1956)
Cast: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Skip Homeier, Eduard Franz, Earl Holliman, Claude Akins, Ray Teal. (94 minutes, CinemaScope & Technicolor.)

A Cry in the Night (Warner Brothers, 1956)
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey, Anthony Caruso. (75 minutes, B&W.)

The Girl He Left Behind (Warner Brothers, 1956)
Cast: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus, Henry Jones, Murray Hamilton, Alan King, James Garner, David Janssen, Vinton Hayworth. (103 minutes, B&W.)

Bombers B-52 (Warner Brothers, 1957)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Marsha Hunt, Don Kelly, Nelson Leigh, Robert Nichols. (106 minutes, CinemaScope & WarnerColor.)

Marjorie Morningstar (Warner Brothers, 1958)
Cast: Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor, Ed Wynn, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner, Carolyn Jones, George Tobias, Martin Balsam, Jesse White, Edward Byrnes, Paul Picerni, Alan Reed, Ruta Lee. (123 minutes, WarnerColor.)

Kings Go Forth (United Artists, 1958)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Leora Dana, Karl Swenson, Anne Codee, Jackie Berthe. (109 minutes, B&W.)

Cash McCall (Warner Brothers, 1959)
Cast: James Garner, Natalie Wood, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, E.G. Marshall, Henry Jones, Otto Kruger, Roland Winters. (102 minutes, Technicolor.)

All the Fine Young Cannibals (MGM, 1960)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Susan Kohner, George Hamilton, Pearl Bailey, Jack Mullaney, Onslow Stevens, Anne Seymour, Virginia Gregg, Mabel Albertson, Louise Beavers. (112 minutes, CinemaScope & MetroColor.)

Splendor in the Grass (Warner Brothers, 1961)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert, Fred Stewart, Joanna Field. (124 minutes, Technicolor.)

West Side Story (United Artists, 1961)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Tucker Smith, Tony Mordente, Eliot Feld, David Winters, Simon Oakland, John Astin. (155 minutes, Panavision-70 & Technicolor.)

Gypsy (Warner Brothers, 1962)
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Ann Jillian, Harry Shannon, Faith Dane, Roxanne Arlen. (149 minutes, Technirama & Technicolor.)

Love with the Proper Stranger (Paramount, 1963)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Tom Bosley, Harvey Lembeck, Penny Santon, Virginia Vincent, Nick Alexander. (100 minutes, B&W.)

Sex and the Single Girl (Warner Brothers, 1964)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Ferrer, Fran Jeffries, Leslie Parrish, Edward Everett Horton, Larry Storch, Stubby Kaye, Otto Kruger, Max Showalter, Count Basie and His Band. (114 minutes, Technicolor.)

The Great Race (Warner Brothers, 1965)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell, Vivian Vance, Dorothy Provine, Larry Storch, Ross Martin, George Macready, Marvin Kaplan. (150 minutes, Panavision & Technicolor.)

Inside Daisy Clover (Warner Brothers, 1965)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, Katharine Bard, John Hale, Harold Gould. (128 minutes, Panavision & Technicolor.)

This Property is Condemned (Paramount, 1966)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham, Alan Baxter, Robert Blake, John Harding, Dabney Coleman, Jon Provost. (110 minutes, Technicolor.)

Penelope (MGM, 1966)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, Lila Kedrova, Lou Jacobi, Norma Crane, Jerome Cowan, Arlene Golonka. (97 minutes, Panavision & MetroColor.)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Columbia, 1969)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Horst Ebersberg, Greg Mullavey, Celeste Yarnall. (104 minutes, Technicolor.)

The Candidate (Warner Brothers, 1972)
Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Melvyn Douglas, Karen Carlson, Michael Lerner (NW in unbilled cameo appearance as herself). (109 minutes, Technicolor.)

Peeper (20th Century-Fox, 1976)
Cast: Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Thayer David, Liam Dunn, Dorothy Adams, Michael Constantine, Liz Renay, Guy Marks, Margo Winkler. (87 minutes, Colour by Deluxe.)

Meteor (American International, 1979)
Cast: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Trevor Howard, Brian Keith, Karl Malden, Martin Landau, Richard Dysart, Joe Campanella, Bibi Besch. (103 minutes, Panavision & colour.)

The Last Married Couple in America (Universal, 1980)
Cast: Natalie Wood, George Segal, Richard Benjamin, Arlene Golonka, Alan Arbus, Marilyn Sokol, Dom De Luise, Valerie Harper, Bob Dishy, Oliver Clark, Priscilla Barnes. (103 minutes, Technicolor.)

Willie and Phil ( 20th Century-Fox, 1980)
Cast: Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Tom Brennan, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss (NW in cameo appearance as herself). (116 minutes, Colour by Movielab.)

Brainstorm (MGM / United Artists, 1983)
Cast: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, Jordan Christopher, Donald Hotton, Allan Fudge, Joe Dorsey, Georgianne Walken. (106 minutes, Panavision & MetroColor.)

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