Wood charms McQueen in their 1963 sit-down. Years later, when both were between marriages, they’d spark up a brief romance — just another of many adventures Natalie Wood would experience over a life that burned fast and bright. She died in a mysterious boating accident in 1981, just 43 years old, but the gifts she left behind — a collection of beloved films, her passion for life and work, these flashes of her luminous smile — still thrill today.
