Natalie Wood in Malibu in 1963. She was 25 years old. [src]The former child star was at the heighth of her adult fame with three hits just behind her (Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story and Gypsy) and another opening at Christmas: Love with the Proper Stranger.Time capsule: In the summer of '63 --let's pretend it was summer but it's Malibu you never know-- Cleopatra and Hud were playing in movie theaters. Liz Taylor, her main rival for 60s female starpower, was dazzling in eyeliner in the former. Paul Newman, one of Wood's ...