𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆 — "𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂" 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏 (𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚) ♥

Описание: This is a tribute to Natalie Wood, the great actress who was nominated for multiple Academy Awards and was best known for her role as Maria in the movie "West Side Story". The song accompanying this tribute is "Maria" from that same movie, composed by Leonard Bernstein and sung by Jim Bryant.
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A little about Natalie Wood:
The daughter of Russian immigrants, Natalie Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, and started performing an early age. Her mother, Maria, enrolled her ballet classes as a small child. At the age of 4, Wood landed her first film role, a bit part in Happy Land (1943), which happened to be filming in Santa Rosa, California, where she was living at the time. She had won over director Irving Pichel after her mother orchestrated their introduction. Later, Wood said that her mother told her to "make Mr. Pichel love you."
The dark-haired, doe-eyed girl soon made other film appearances. Wood tugged at the heartstrings of audiences with her small role as an orphan in the 1946 drama Tomorrow Is Forever, with Claudette Colbert and Orson Welles. In 1947, she again won over fans with her first starring role, in Miracle on 34th Street.
At the age of 16, Wood began filming one of her most famous films. She co-starred with Dean and Sal Mineo in the 1955 groundbreaking depiction of teenage rebellion and angst, Rebel Without a Cause. In the film, Wood played the girlfriend of a troubled outsider, played by Dean. She earned an Academy Award nomination for her work.
In 1961, Wood starred opposite Warren Beatty in Splendor in the Grass, playing the part of a young girl torn by desire and social conventions. In this role, Wood showed great range as an emotionally fragile young woman driven to madness. That same year, she starred in another troubled romance, West Side Story, in which she falls for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. This urban retelling of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet proved to be a hit. Wood did all her own dancing in this popular musical, but her singing was done by Marni Nixon, a Broadway performer.
Wood earned a lot of press not just for her acting roles, but for her personal life. She enjoyed great popularity, becoming a hit with movie star fan magazines. Wood had numerous relationships — both public and secret — with her co-stars, colleagues and other stars. She dated actor Dennis Hopper, hotel dynasty heir Nicky Hilton, and even singer Elvis Presley.
Her first marriage in the 1950s also attracted much media coverage. The 18-year-old star wed actor Wagner, eight years her senior, in 1957. The couple became a favorite subject in fan magazines. The union, unfortunately, did not last, with the pair splitting up in 1962. Around this time, Wood became involved with Beatty.
In 1969, she married Richard Gregson, a writer and producer. The couple had a daughter, Natasha, the following year.
In 1972, Wood's volatile personal life took another turn. She divorced Gregson and decided to remarry Wagner. They had one child, a daughter named Courtney, born in 1974.
Wood earned positive reviews for her performance in a televised version of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1976. Three years later, she received acclaim for her role in the television miniseries From Here to Eternity.
That same year, Wood paired up with Sean Connery for the poorly received sci-fi film Meteor. She next appeared in the 1980 comedy The Last Married Couple in America, another effort that failed to garner much commercial or critical success. In 1981, Wood worked on her final film, Brainstorm, a science-fiction thriller, with Walken.
In November 1981, Wood took a trip with her husband Wagner and Brainstorm co-star Walken to California's Catalina Island on their boat Splendour. On the night of November 29, the three actors had been drinking. Wagner reportedly broke a bottle during a fit of anger over Wood's relationship with Walken. He thought the pair seemed too close. After that incident, Wood and Wagner allegedly argued.
Later that evening, Wagner was unable to find Wood. Her body was discovered the following morning, floating in the water off Catalina Island near a dinghy from the Splendour. Her death was ruled an accidental drowning. It was theorized that Wood fell in the water after attempting to secure the dinghy to prevent it from banging into the boat. Some objected to this explanation, as Wood had a lifelong fear of the water.
Her family and friends gathered at Los Angeles's Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery to say good-bye to the lovely, yet troubled, star. Mourners included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Elia Kazan.