Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, Natalie Wood moved to Los Angeles shortly after appearing as an extra in 1943's Happy Land. In 1947, pushed by her starstruck mother, Wood landed the role that would win the hearts of moviegoers: Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street.During the 1940s and '50s, Wood found steady work as a child actress, playing the teenage daughter on the 1953 sitcom "The Pride of the Family" before making a spectacular segue into mature roles with her Oscar-nominated performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). Two more Oscar nominations followed -- for Splendor in the Grass and Love with the Proper Stranger -- as did marriage to actor Robert Wagner, all before Wood turned 30.
Wood gave memorable performances in movies such as West Side Story, Gypsy and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice before her drowning death on Nov. 20, 1981.
Rebel Without a Cause: Special EditionWhen Jim Stark (James Dean) arrives in a new town with his troubled past firmly in tow, he quickly falls for the girl next door (Natalie Wood) and befriends the vulnerable Plato (Sal Mineo), forming a surrogate family fueled by alienation. From a deadly game of chicken to the spectacular climax at... Read More
Splendor in the GrassYoung lovers Deanie Loomis (Natalie Wood) and Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty, in his big-screen debut) find their awakening sexuality at odds with their own moral standards -- and those of their 1920s rural Kansas community. But trying to resist their carnal urges leads to mutual heartbreak ... and to... Read More
BrainstormMike Brace (Christopher Walken) is a technological genius who's created a device that can record and play back human thought. But the military catches wind and emerges as an unwanted 'silent partner' in his project. Soon, Mike and his wife (Natalie Wood) are thrust into a breathless, non-stop race... Read More
GypsyMervyn LeRoy directs this old-fashioned musical (featuring a classic Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne score) about stage-mother-from-hell Mama Rose Hovick (Rosalind Russell) and the two daughters she pushes into show business. Baby June is the talented one, but when she quits the business, Mama Rose... Read More
Bob & Carol & Ted & AlicePaul Mazursky's 1969 classic puts two couples and their relationships under the unforgiving lens of society's microscope in this unflinching examination of marriage. After one liberal group therapy session, Bob (Robert Culp) and his wife, Carol (Natalie Wood), are convinced they're open-minded... Read More
James Dean: The Fast Lane (2009) | NR | |
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Brainstorm (1983) | PG | |
Meteor (1979) | PG | |
Laurence Olivier Presents (1976) | NR | |
Peeper (1975) | PG | |
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The Affair (1973) | PG | |
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) | R | |
This Property Is Condemned (1966) | NR | |
The Great Race (1965) | NR | |
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) | NR | |
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) | NR | |
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Gypsy (1962) | NR | |
West Side Story (1961) | NR | |
Splendor in the Grass (1961) | NR | |
Cash McCall (1959) | NR | |
Kings Go Forth (1958) | NR | |
Marjorie Morningstar (1957) | NR | |
Bombers B-52 (1957) | NR | |
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James Dean: The TV Years (1954) | NR | |
James Dean Era (1953) | NR | |
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Four Star Playhouse (1953) | NR | |
The Star (1952) | NR | |
Dear Brat (1951) | NR | |
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The Golden Age of TV Drama (1951) | NR | |
The Green Promise (1949) | NR | |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) | NR | |
Driftwood (1947) | NR | |
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