Rebel Without A Cause 1955, Dir. Nicholas Ray

I’ve been a good little girl! A good little, good little girl! NATALIE WOOD breaks down in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)

Natalie Wood at a director’s guild dinner in Los Angeles, circa 1956.

Natalie Wood photographed during a telephone conversation. Bill Ray, 1963.

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

Natalie Wood photographed during the filming of “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” 1969.

Natalie Wood photographed holding a baby bird, 1962.

When I saw The Umbrellas of Cherbourg again a few years ago, it struck me: it’s exactly the same ending as in Splendor in the Grass. I adore that film. It’s one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever seen in the cinema. And the end scene is exactly the same as in Umbrellas. He is on the farm, with his dungarees, his wife, the child and she comes back…it was so moving to see that resemblance. I think it is one of the maddest, most audacious films on the subject of love. Particularly for a man to bring a young woman to life in such a way! Splendor in the Grass is so much about unbridled love. The idea that loving can make you insane. That is what happens: you become insane! Going as far as to see her leave for the hospital, because she is dying of love, she wants to die! That film knocked me over. - Catherine Deneuve

Natalie Wood in LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER (1963) Costume Design by Edith Head

Natalie Wood at her Grauman’s Chinese Theatre imprint ceremony, 1961.