Beauty Break: Natalie Wood Forever

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 1:31PM
NATHANIEL R in Actressexuality, Beauty Break, Natalie Wood

My first true actress love as a wee boy watching her movies on TV whenever they'd pop up. She would have been 78 today. Happy Birthday in the Cosmic Cinema Pantheon, Natalie. Here are 12 glorious photos of her and a few listicles...

Man Crazy

(men she married)

 

• RJ Wagner
• Richard Gregson
• RJ Wagner (again)

 

(famous men she reportedly dated)

 

• Warren Beatty
• Elvis Presley
• Christopher Walken
• Michael Caine
• Tony Curtis
• Nick Adams
• Dennis Hopper
• Nicholas Hilton (Conrad Hilton Jr)
• Robert Vaughn
• Steve McQueen

 

Multiple Collaborations

 

1. Robert Redford (The Candidate, This Property is Condemned, Inside Daisy Clover)
2. Tony Curtis (The Great Race, Sex and the Single Girl, Kings Go Forth)
3. Karl Malden (Gypsy, Meteor, Bombers B52)
4. Jim Backus (Rebel Without a Cause, The Girl He Left Behind, The Rose Bowl Story)
5. RJ Wagner (All the Fine Young Cannibals, The Affair -tv, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -tv, Hart to Hart -guest star, Switch -guest star)
6. Cinematographer Charles Lang (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Inside Daisy Clover, Sex and the Single Girl, 
7. Costume Designer Moss Mabry (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Rebel Without a Cause, The Girl He Left Behind, a Cry in the Night) 
8. Director Robert Mulligan (Inside Daisy Clover, Love With the Proper Stranger)
9. Cinematography Harry Stradling Sr (Gypsy, Penelope, Marjorie Morningstar)
10. Costume Designer Edith Head (Sex and the Single Girl, Penelope, This Property is Condemned, Love with the Proper Stranger)
11. Director Irving Pichel (Tomorrow is Forever -her debut, 2 uncredited roles before that in his pictures)
12. Director Paul Mazursky (Willie & Phil, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
13. James Garner (The Girl He Left Behind, Cash McCall, Conflict -guest star)
14. Tab Hunter (The Burning Hills, The Girl He Left Behind)
15. Director Stuart Heisler (The Burning Hills, The Star)
16. Director George Seaton (Miracle on 34th Street, Chicken Every Sunday)
17. Maureen O'Hara (Miracle on 34th Street, Father was a Fullback)
18. Fred MacMurray (Father was a Fullback, Never a Dull Moment)
19. Everett Sloane (The Blue Veil, Marjorie Morningstar)
20. Karl Malden (Gypsy, Meteor)
21. Jane Wyman (The Blue Veil, Just For You)
22. Vera Miles (The Searchers, The Rose Bowl Story)
23. Peter Falk (The Great Race, Penelope)
24. Walter Brennan (Scudda Hoo Scudda Hay, The Green Promise)
25. Cinematographer (West Side Story, Kings Go Forth)
26. Dennis Hooper (Rebel Without a Cause, Kaiser Aluminum Hour - guest star, Kings Row - guest star)
27. James Dean (Rebel Without a Cause, General Electric Theater - guest star)

 

Five Best Performances

 

1. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
2. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
3. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
4. West Side Story (1961)
5. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

 

Article originally appeared on The Film Experience (http://thefilmexperience.net/).