KallMeKris

How much does that say?

Like, even just a couple weeks?

And she's like, no, I need to speak to my therapist.

Like, the trauma that that involves, I can't even imagine.

yet through all of it she did keep working and after rebel without a cause john ford's the searchers came out in 1956 then west side story and splendor in the grass both in 1961 and then gypsy in 1962 and the love with the proper stranger in 1963 and splendor in the grass earned her a nomination for best actor

And Love with a Proper Stranger earned her another.

So she had three Oscar nominations before turning 26, one of the youngest people in Hollywood history to reach that number.

So three nominations earned while carrying a weight that would have broken most people twice her age.

So Natalie was 10 years old the first time she saw Robert Wagner.

And he was 18 years old walking down a corridor at 20th Century Fox.

And she told People Magazine in 1976, quote, I turned to my mother and said, I'm going to marry him, unquote.

And eight years later, the studio system made that meeting happen on purpose.

And their first date was arranged as a publicity stunt designed to get both their names in papers.

And it fell on July 20th, 1956, Natalie's 18th birthday.

And whatever the studio's intentions were, the connection at least was actually real.

And on December 28th, 1957, they married in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Wagner's parents lived.

And she was 19 at the time and he was 27.

I mean, I have nothing to say.

Like for the time, it doesn't seem that bad, I guess.

But given the history that her mom put her through, she probably like only saw significantly older people as an option to marry.