Natalie Wood filmography

Natalie Wood (1938–1981) was an American actress who started her career as a child by appearing in films directed by Irving Pichel.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Publicity photo for the film Penelope (1966)

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,^[4] for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female.^[5][6] The following year, Wood appeared as a kidnapped girl in the John Ford-directed western The Searchers (1956) with John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter.^[7] 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.^[8][9]

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.^[10][11][12] For the former, she received a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and Golden Globes.^[13][14][15] 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.^[16][17] 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.^[18] 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.^[19][20]

In 1969, she starred in the comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice about two couples who decide to pursue an open relationship.^[21] Four years later, Wood appeared opposite Robert Wagner in the television film The Affair.^[22] 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).^[20][23] Two years later, she died of drowning during the filming of her last film Brainstorm, which was posthumously released in 1983.^[24][25]

Film

Wood in a 1951 publicity photo

Wood in a publicity photo for Gypsy (1962)

Wood in a publicity photo for Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Year	Title	Role	Ref(s)
1943	The Moon Is Down	Carrie[lower-alpha 1]	[26]
1943	Happy Land	Little girl who drops ice cream cone[lower-alpha 1]	[27][28]
1946	Tomorrow Is Forever	Margaret Ludwig	[29]
1946	The Bride Wore Boots	Carol Warren	[30]
1947	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir	Anna Muir (as a child)	[31]
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	Susan Walker	[32]
1947	Driftwood	Jenny Hollingsworth	[33]
1948	Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!	Bean McGill	[34]
1948	The Green Promise	Susan Matthews	[35]
1949	Chicken Every Sunday	Ruth Hefferen	[36]
1949	Father Was a Fullback	Ellen Cooper	[37]
1950	No Sad Songs for Me	Polly Scott	[38]
1950	Our Very Own	Penny	[39]
1950	Never a Dull Moment	Nan	[40]
1950	The Jackpot	Phyllis Lawrence	[41]
1951	Dear Brat	Pauline	[42]
1951	The Blue Veil	Stephanie Rawlins	[43]
1952	The Rose Bowl Story	Sally Burke	[44]
1952	Just for You	Barbara Blake	[45]
1952	The Star	Gretchen	[46][47]
1954	The Silver Chalice	Helena (as a child)	[48]
1955	One Desire	Seely	[49]
1955	Rebel Without a Cause	Judy	[50]
1956	The Searchers	Debbie Edwards	[51]
1956	A Cry in the Night	Liz Taggart	[52]
1956	The Burning Hills	Maria Cristina Colton	[53]
1956	The Girl He Left Behind	Susan Daniels	[54]
1957	Bombers B-52	Lois Brennan	[55]
1958	Marjorie Morningstar	Marjorie	[56]
1958	Kings Go Forth	Monique Blair	[57]
1960	Cash McCall	Lory Austen	[58]
1960	All the Fine Young Cannibals	Sara "Salome" Davis	[59]
1961	Splendor in the Grass	Wilma Dean Loomis	[60]
1961	West Side Story	Maria	[61]
1962	Gypsy	Gypsy Rose Lee	[16]
1963	Love with the Proper Stranger	Angie Rossini	[62]
1964	Sex and the Single Girl	Helen Gurley Brown	[63]
1965	Inside Daisy Clover	Daisy Clover	[64]
1965	The Great Race	Maggie DuBois	[65]
1966	This Property Is Condemned	Alva Starr	[66]
1966	Penelope	Penelope	[67]
1969	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Carol Sanders	[68]
1972	The Candidate	Herself[lower-alpha 2]	[69]
1975	Peeper	Ellen Prendergast	[70]
1979	Meteor	Tatiana Donskaya	[71]
1980	The Last Married Couple in America	Mari Thomson	[72]
1980	Willie & Phil	Herself[lower-alpha 2]	[73]
1983	Brainstorm	Karen Brace	[74]

Television

Wood and Tom Bernard in television series The Pride of the Family (1953–1954)

Wood and Jacques Sernas in "The Deadly Riddle" (1956)

Year(s)	Title	Role(s)	Notes	Ref(s)
1952	Chevron Theatre	Monica	Episode: "Playmates"	[75]
1953–1954	The Pride of the Family	Ann Morrison		[76][77]
1954	The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse	Monica	Episode: "Playmates"	[78]
1954	The Public Defender	Renee Marchand	Episode: "Return of the Dead"	[79]
1954	Studio 57	Sheila Mason	Episode: "The Plot Against Miss Pomeroy"	[80]
1954 1955	General Electric Theater	Lucy / Polly Gookin	Episode: "I'm a Fool" Episode: "Feathertop"	[81][82]
1955	Four Star Playhouse	Louise	Episode: "The Wild Bunch"	[83][84]
1955	Ford Television Theatre	Polly Ramsay	Episode: "Too Old for Dolls"	[85]
1955	Max Liebman Spectaculars	Klara Sesseman	Episode: "Heidi"	[86][87]
1955	Studio One	Jen Potter	Episode: "Miracle at Potter's Farm"	[88]
1955 1956	Kings Row	Renee Gyllinson	Episode: "Wedding Gift" Episode: "Carnival"	[89][90]
1956	Warner Bros. Presents	Lady Marian	Episode: "The Deadly Riddle"	[91]
1956	The Kaiser Aluminum Hour	Kathy Jo	Episode: "Carnival"	[92]
1973	The Affair	Courtney Patterson	Television film	[22]
1976	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Maggie	Television film	[93]
1978	Switch	Girl in the bubble bath	Episode: "The Cage"	[94]
1979	From Here to Eternity	Karen Holmes	Miniseries	[95]
1979	Hart to Hart	Movie Star[lower-alpha 2]	Episode: "Pilot"	[96][97][98]
1979	The Cracker Factory	Cassie Barrett	Television film	[99]
1980	The Memory of Eva Ryker	Eva / Claire Ryker	Television film	[100]
1981	Peter Ustinov and Natalie Wood at The Hermitage	Herself	Documentary	[101]

Notes

1. Uncredited role
2. Cameo

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External links

• Natalie Wood at IMDb