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Actor Born: July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, CA Death: November 29, 1981 in Santa Catalina Island, CA (near) Biography:Born to Russian-immigrant parents, "Natalie Wood" made her first film appearance at age four as an extra in "Happy Land" (1943). When she was promoted to supporting roles, the young Wood was well prepared for the artistic discipline expected of her: She'd been taking dancing lessons since infancy. By 1947, she earned up to a thousand dollars per week for such films as "Miracle on 34th Street". She made a reasonably smooth transition to grown-up roles, most notably as "James Dean"'s girlfriend in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and "Warren Beatty"'s steady in "Splendor in the Grass" (1961). She was also a regular on the 1953 sitcom "Pride of the Family", playing the teenaged daughter of "Paul Hartman" and "Fay Wray". Despite being romantically linked with several of her leading men, Wood settled down to marriage relatively early, wedding film star "Robert Wagner" in 1957. The union didn't last, and she and... Full Biography
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