Natalie Wood filmography
{{Short description|None}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}}
File: Natalie Wood 1966 Penelope.jpg (1966)]]
Natalie Wood (1938–1981) was an American actress who started her career as a child by appearing in films directed by Irving Pichel.{{cite book|last=Finstad|first=Suzanne|title=Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21UI85fUGJMC|date=February 15, 2011|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4070-7117-6|page=39}} Wood's first credited role was as an Austrian war refugee in the Pichel-directed Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) with Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles.{{cite book|last=Finstad|first=Suzanne|title=Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=21UI85fUGJMC|date=February 15, 2011|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4070-7117-6|page=54}} The following year, she played a child who does not believe in Santa Claus in the Christmas comedy-drama Miracle on 34th Street (1947) opposite Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, and Edmund Gwenn.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1946/film/reviews/miracle-on-34th-street-1200415057/|date=1947|work=Variety|title=Miracle on 34th Street|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204183123/https://variety.com/1946/film/reviews/miracle-on-34th-street-1200415057/|archive-date=December 4, 2019|url-status=live}}
Wood appeared as a regular cast member in the television sitcom The Pride of the Family (1953). Two years later, she starred as a recalcitrant teenager in Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean,{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1955/film/reviews/rebel-without-a-cause-1200417958/|work=Variety|title=Rebel Without a Cause|date=October 26, 1955|access-date=December 4, 2019|last=Landry|first=Robert J.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607010359/https://variety.com/1955/film/reviews/rebel-without-a-cause-1200417958/|archive-date=June 7, 2019|url-status=live}} for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female.{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956|title=The 28th Academy Awards|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215135706/https://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956|archive-date=December 15, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/new-star-year-actress?page=6|title=New Star of the Year – Actress|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204183203/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/new-star-year-actress%3Fpage%3D6|archive-date=December 4, 2019|url-status=live}}
The following year, Wood appeared as a kidnapped girl in the John Ford-directed western The Searchers (1956) with John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter.{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-searchers-1956|last=Ebert|first=Roger|publisher=RogerEbert.com|date=November 25, 2001|access-date=December 4, 2019|title=The Searchers movie review & film summary (1956)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206115336/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-searchers-1956|archive-date=December 6, 2019|url-status=live}} Two years later, she played a Jewish student in Marjorie Morningstar (1958) opposite Gene Kelly, and an American girl living in World War II France who is caught in a love triangle in Kings Go Forth (1958) with Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/04/25/archives/version-of-wouk-novel-opens-at-music-hall.html|work=The New York Times|title=Version of Wouk Novel Opens at Music Hall|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|date=April 25, 1958|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204183334/https://www.nytimes.com/1958/04/25/archives/version-of-wouk-novel-opens-at-music-hall.html|archive-date=December 4, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1957/film/reviews/kings-go-forth-1200419106/|date=1958|work=Variety|title=Kings Go Forth|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204183147/https://variety.com/1957/film/reviews/kings-go-forth-1200419106/|archive-date=December 4, 2019|url-status=live}}
In 1961, Wood starred as a teenager struggling with sexual repression in the period drama Splendor in the Grass with Warren Beatty, and as Maria in the highly successful musical film West Side Story.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/10/11/archives/splendor-in-the-grass-isat-2-theatres.html|work=The New York Times|date=October 11, 1961|access-date=December 4, 2019|last=Crowther|first=Bosley|title='Splendor in the Grass' Is-at 2 Theatres|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414003844/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/10/11/archives/splendor-in-the-grass-isat-2-theatres.html|archive-date=April 14, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/steven-spielberg-west-side-story-cast-maria-rachel-zegler|work=Vanity Fair|date=January 14, 2019|access-date=December 4, 2019|title=Steven Spielberg's West Side Story Has Found Its Maria, a 17-Year-Old Rising Star|last=Bradley|first=Laura|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214223141/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/steven-spielberg-west-side-story-cast-maria-rachel-zegler|archive-date=February 14, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/westsidestory/westsidestory-legacy.html|title=West Side Story: Birth of a Classic|date=April 26, 2008 |publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=June 30, 2020}} For the former, she received a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Golden Globes.{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|title=The 34th Academy Awards|access-date=December 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215135502/https://oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1962|archive-date=December 15, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1963/film|publisher=British Academy Film Awards|title=Film in 1963|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422015615/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1963/film|archive-date=April 22, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/best-performance-actress-motion-picture-drama/all-years#year-1962|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|access-date=December 4, 2019|title=Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171220171302/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/best-performance-actress-motion-picture-drama/all-years#year-1962|archive-date=December 20, 2017|url-status=live}} She followed West Side Story with another musical film Gypsy (1962), in which she played the title role of the burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/actress-leading-role-musical-or-comedy/all-years#year-1963|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|title=Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231094217/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/actress-leading-role-musical-or-comedy/all-years#year-1963|archive-date=December 31, 2018|url-status=live}} The following year, Wood portrayed a woman who becomes pregnant following a one-night stand in Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) with Steve McQueen.{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/1962/film/reviews/love-with-the-proper-stranger-1200420364/|work=Variety|title=Love with the Proper Stranger|date=1963|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204183128/https://variety.com/1962/film/reviews/love-with-the-proper-stranger-1200420364/|archive-date=December 4, 2019|url-status=live}} For her performance she garnered her second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964|title=The 36th Academy Awards|access-date=December 4, 2019|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429053203/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964|archive-date=April 29, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/natalie-wood|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|access-date=December 4, 2019|title=Natalie Wood|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322101022/https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/natalie-wood|archive-date=March 22, 2019|url-status=live}}
In 1969, she starred in the comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice about two couples who decide to pursue an open relationship.{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bob-and-carol-and-ted-and-alice-1969|last=Ebert|first=Roger|publisher=RogerEbert.com|date=December 22, 1969|access-date=December 4, 2019|title=Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice movie review (1969)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031063835/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bob-and-carol-and-ted-and-alice-1969|archive-date=October 31, 2019|url-status=live}} Four years later, Wood appeared opposite Robert Wagner in the television film The Affair. She received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her portrayal of an adulterous wife in the miniseries From Here to Eternity (1979).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/14/archives/tv-new-here-to-eternity-on-nbc.html|work=The New York Times|date=February 14, 1979|access-date=June 29, 2020|title=TV: New 'Here to Eternity' on NBC|last=Buckley|first=Tom}} Two years later, she died of drowning during the filming of her last film Brainstorm, which was posthumously released in 1983.{{cite web|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brainstorm-1983|last=Ebert|first=Roger|publisher=RogerEbert.com|date=September 30, 1983|access-date=December 4, 2019|title=Brainstorm movie review & film summary (1983)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804000956/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/brainstorm-1983|archive-date=August 4, 2019|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/5131096/natalie-wood-robert-wagner/|magazine=Time|title=Natalie Wood's Death Has Been Ruled Suspicious. Here's What to Know About the Actor's Mysterious Drowning|last=Jenkins|first=Aric|date=February 2, 2018|access-date=December 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190517181329/http://time.com/5131096/natalie-wood-robert-wagner/|archive-date=May 17, 2019|url-status=live}}
Film
File:Natalie Wood 1951 photo.jpg
File:Natalie Wood Gypsy 1962.jpg (1962)]]
File:Natalie_Wood_Inside_Daisy_Clover_still.jpg (1965)]]
Television
File:Natalie Wood Tom Bernard Pride of the Family 1954.JPG
File:Natalie Wood Jacques Sernas The Deadly Riddle 1956 1.jpg in "The Deadly Riddle" (1956)]]
Notes
{{notelist}}
References
{{reflist}}