Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on natalies life comparison with louise and maria. In order to ensure that the role of a character is played out diligently, the directors of the film hold auditions to select the best-suited individuals to play out significant characters. Natalie Wood was a great actor who enjoyed popularity for her roles in major films in the mid-eighties. The actor fame and publicity came early since she started acting quite early in her life owing to the pressure she received from her life. She lived a life that most people would term as glamorous and successful subsequent to her demise aboard a boat in 1981. However, the impact that Natalie Wood made in the film industry is enviable to many. Her films have been greatly acclaimed due to their sensationalism and the pretty aspect that the fact that she seemed vulnerable in all her acts as well as in real life. Natalie was a pretty woman, which led to her roles in great films. As an actor, Natalie’s real-life characters have been deduced from the roles she played in some of her movies. In both Gypsy and the West Side story, the characters she plays, Louise Hovick and Maria Homez greatly mirror her real-life story.

Gypsy is a musical film that was produced in 1962 and based on the memoirs of a stripper Gypsy Louise Hovick. The film highlights the success story of Gypsy and the factors that shaped her life to turn out the way it did. In the film, Wood plays the role of Louise, a little girl who, together with her younger sister, is forced by their mother, Rose Hovick, to perform in the theatre. June Hovick, Louise’s sister is pretty and talented, unlike Louise who is not talented at all. Rose Hovick drags the kids all over the country so as they could perform and in the process make her famous. Both Louise and June soon become older and cannot perform to their mother’s expectations but she still insists that they perform. June eventually becomes frustrated and intimidated by her mother’s domineering role and elopes with Jerry who is one of the back-up dancers.