She failed to be convicted because she took off her dress and burned it, and was able to easily wash the rest of the blood off in a bath.
Plus she was said to have had an incestuous relationship with her father, so the nudity reinforces the horror of what happened.
However after the release of the films, she Wood suffered emotionally and sought professional therapy.
Natalie Wood - Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elizabeth Taylor - Cleopatra 1963 or possibly in Reflections In A Golden Eye 1967 Julie Newmar - Mackenna's Gold 1969 Julie Andrews - S.