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Natalie Wood was a child star before the age of casting shows dawned.
But she managed to transform herself into a serious actress, winning awards and receiving nominations for the Oscar, the most coveted film trophy of all.
And she takes a prophecy from a fortune teller with her on her journey through life, which predicts her death in "dark, deep waters".
And indeed, what really happened on board the "Splendour" on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981 is still the subject of wild speculation today.
Only one thing is certain: that night, Natalie Wood plunged into the sea off the Californian coast near Santa Catalina Island and drowned.
The early death of great stars has always had the makings of a myth.
Some see the gods at work who loved someone too much, others whisper about unexplained circumstances of death, a life lived too intensely or deliberate self-destruction.
In the end, what remains is the image of an unfulfilled life that could have had so many more possibilities.
In the age of the media, the death of a star is always a public event that can be marketed as long as the tabloid's hunger for sensation continues and the images have burned themselves into the pop-cultural consciousness.
The documentaries in the "Too Young to Die" series show the people behind the respective myth and report on their successes and early fame, despair and tragedy.
