- Why Do You Do That? Why Are You So Fanciful? Why Do You Make Everything Special? -Because It Is.

Natalie Wood at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, photographed by Edward Quinn.

Natalie Wood eating Chinese food, Ralph Crane, 1957.

Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Dir. Nicholas Ray

Natalie Wood in “Love With the Proper Stranger,” 1963.

25 days of christmas: day 20 💕 christmas miracle

I believe.

“While Natalie hero-worshipped [Nick] Ray, she was in awe of Dean... “He was all she could talk about. Every night for weeks in a row, she went to see “East of Eden”— she must have seen it over fifty times. She even taught me to play the theme song from the picture on the piano.” According to Natalie’s tutor, “She would hang around him as much as possible... she was very flirtatious with him.” ’

Excerpt from Natalie Wood by Suzanne Finstad; Natalie Wood gets James Dean’s autograph on set of “Rebel Without a Cause,” 1955.

Dean, with blood on his shirt, signs Natalie Wood’s suede autograph jacket. He was her 100th co-star to sign. Wood’s mother later burned the signatures with a hot needle for posterity.

Natalie Wood hangs up an autographed photo of her favorite actress, Vivien Leigh in her Laurel Canyon Home, 1955.

Natalie Wood photographed at the Cocoanut Grove Club, 1963.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947), dir. George Seaton

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. Don’t you see? It’s not just Kris that’s on trial; it’s everything he stands for. It’s kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles.