Before she became Hollywood's child, Natalie Wood was known as Natasha, daughter to Russian immigrant parents.  Natasha dreamed of becoming a ballerina but was forced into acting by a mother who fulfilled her own dreams of stardom thru Natasha.  From the start of her career at the age of 4 until her death at the age of 43, Natasha's life would become far more compelling and haunting than any movie. 

Maria- "God made her.  I invented her."