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Names like Debbie Reynolds and Jane Mansfield were in the mix and multiple sources say the same thing.

Somewhere between her initial meeting with Ray and the screen test that followed, a sexual relationship would begin.

And they met at a bungalow in the Chateau Mormont.

And Finstead describes, quote, when she was 16, the director of Rebel Without a Cause manipulated her into having sex with him by saying he wasn't convinced that she would realistically play a bad girl, unquote.

Lord knows that Maria encouraged her

to do the unthinkable, to lose her innocence to a disgusting pervert.

But she would get the part.

Dennis Hopper was also seeing Natalie during production, and he and Ray clashed because of it.

And it just poisoned the atmosphere on set.

But still, Maria was in the loop on all of it.

She knew everything.

She knew her daughter was being taken advantage of just to get a role.

but she only complained about Hopper.

The director, after all, controlled the movie.

And Natalie earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress with Rebel Without a Cause, a career-defining performance, born from exploitation that no one around her had the courage or decency

to stop and that same year something far worse allegedly happened and in the summer of 1955 while the searchers was in production maria arranged a meeting between natalie and one of the most powerful actors in hollywood and maria was convinced that one word of approval from a star at his level would change everything for natalie and lana wood was nine years old at this time

And in her 2021 memoir, Little Sister, she identified the man as Kirk Douglas.

And Natalie was still a teenager at this point.

16, maybe 17, the ages aren't fully known, but a teenager nonetheless.

And Douglas was nearly 40.