Highly rare vintage 8x10-inch black and white publicity portrait for 1963's Gypsy, boldly signed in red felt-tip pen in the 1960s or 1970s. In good condition, with a sticker from a third-party authenticator affixed to the lower right-hand corner. Beloved Hollywood icon Natalie Wood made her film debut at age four, as an extra in Happy Land (1943). Within just a few years, she was earning over a thousand dollars per week for films like Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947). The child star blossomed into a talented beauty, and was memorable as girlfriend to James Dean and Warren Beatty, respectively, in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), as well as in Splendor in the Grass (1961); the classic musicals West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963); Inside Daisy Cover (1967); and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969).  She snagged three Oscar nods, but never took home the trophy.  In the midst of filming the 1981 sci-fi flick Brainstorm, she was tragically drowned in a still-suspicious yachting accident just off Catalina Island. She was just 43 years old. Her autograph is rather elusive in any format.

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