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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]

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 J