Catch up on Natalie Wood’s early career, and see more GIFs in PART 1.
In 1957, before Natalie Wood’s career reached a turning point with her role in Splendor in the Grass, Wood married fellow actor, Robert Wagner. After only ten months, the couple divorced.
Wood went on to date her Splendor in the Grass co-star, Warren Beatty, before securing her third Academy Award nomination, at the age of 25, for Love with the Proper Stranger. While Wood never won an Academy Award, this nomination made Wood the youngest person to receive three such nominations (the record was broken in 2013 by a 23-year-old Jennifer Lawrence).
Wood was nominated for Golden Globes playing opposite Robert Redford in Inside Daisy Clover and This Property is Condemned, and by the mid 1960s, Wood was one of the biggest starlets in Hollywood.
Wood’s career took a turn in 1966 after appearing in major flop, Penelope, with Peter Falk. That year, the Harvard Lampoon gave Natalie Wood an award for being “The Worst Actress of Last Year, This Year, and the Next,” and to their surprise, Wood showed up to accept the “honor” in person.
After the embarrassment of Penelope, however, Wood took a three-year hiatus from acting, before starring in comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1969. That year, Wood married film producer, Richard Gregson. Natalie had her first child in 1970 but filed for divorce from Gregson in 1971.
By 1972, Wood rekindled her relationship with ex-husband, Robert Wagner. The two re-married that year and welcomed a daughter in 1974. As Wood’s career began to slow down, she appeared more in television, starring in a miniseries remake of From Here to Eternity that earned her a Golden Globe win for Best Actress in 1980.
Just as Wood was scheduled to make her stage debut (and during the making of what would be her final film, Brainstorm), the actress died tragically.
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