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↑ Just before they got married the first time, Wood and Wagner attended the 29th Academy Awards on March 27, 1957, at the Pantages in Hollywood.In the 1950s, the Oscars were to
Natalie Wood what prom night was to
other teenage girls. “She probably
would have been better off at the Van
Nuys High School dance,” says Wood
biographer Suzanne Finstad. “She
would have had a happier life.” In 1956,
Wood, a 17-year-old high school senior,
attended as a best supporting actress
nominee for Rebel Without a Cause.
(THR called the film about adolescent
angst “a superficial treatment of a vital
problem that has been staged bril-
liantly.”) Tab Hunter was her date, and
she repeatedly was photographed with
Sal Mineo, her fellow best support-
ing actor nominee from the film. The
next year, she attended as a guest with
future husband Robert Wagner, then- (She’d won a Golden Globe that year
as most promising female newcomer
despite having appeared in films since
1943.) Wood and Wagner attended sev-
eral Oscars together until their divorce
in 1962; a best actress nomination
for Splendor in the Grass that year saw
her arrive with co-star Warren Beatty.
In 1964, at 25, she got her final nom —
for best actress in Love With the Proper
Stranger. But winning an Oscar eluded
her. Wood and Wagner remarried in
1972, and the actor recently was named
a “person of interest” in her 1981 drown-
ing at age 43. Her death certificate lists
her primary occupation as “actress”
and number of years in the job as 38.
— BILL HIGGINS
Instead of Prom, Natalie Wood Went to the Oscars