Natalie Wood And Robert Vaughn Photographed At A Halloween Party, 1956.

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

Natalie Wood with her family for LIFE magazine, 1963. 

“Natalie was always evolving, growing up, on the verge of something--something new. There would always be a new Natalie--bolder, mature, edgy. This was true of her personally and professionally, and she would bubble over with whatever was filling her with wonder or awe or anxiety. A new therapy; a new diet; a new religion; a new love; a new challenge to the talent she could never believe she had. I was hoping that I would be on the verge--on the edge--with her for many years to come... but she slipped away.”

Natalie Wood as remembered by her co-star and one time love Dennis Hopper, as told to writer James Grissom.

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Natalie Wood photographed at the Cocoanut Grove Club, 1963.

Natalie Wood photographed in 1945 by Martha Holmes and in 1960 by Allan Grant. 

Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961)

Natalie Wood and James Dean eat at a hot dog stand during a break in filming “Rebel Without a Cause,” 1955.

Natalie Wood photographed napping with a beloved stuffed toy tiger, 1957. Natalie amassed quite a large collection of tigers in her youth, so much so that her friends and family began to call her “Tiger.”

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

Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray