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In a swoon-worthy, never-before-seen photo taken by LIFE’s John Dominis, Steve McQueen kisses Natalie Wood’s hand as the actors meet to discuss their new big-screen project, 1963’s Love With the Proper Stranger. In the romance, which earned Wood her third Academy Award nomination, the stars “reveal the kind of talent for instant communication which film fans have come to expect only from art films,” LIFE wrote in its review. “They take a painful situation (Natalie is pregnant, and Steve is the kind of guy who doesn’t want to get married), and they manage to be both achingly human and agonizingly funny without ever being dirty.”

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