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Splendor in the Grass
Directed by
Elia Kazan
Not Rated
1961
2h 4m
Drama
,
Romance
7.7
74%
90%
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The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
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Cast of Splendor in the Grass
Natalie Wood
Wilma “Deanie” Loomis
Warren Beatty
Bud Stamper
Pat Hingle
Ace Stamper
Audrey Christie
Mrs. Loomis
Barbara Loden
Ginny Stamper
Zohra Lampert
Angelina
Fred Stewart
Del Loomis
John McGovern
Doc Smiley
Jan Norris
Juanita Howard
Martine Bartlett
Miss Metcalf
Gary Lockwood
Allen 'Toots' Tuttle
Sandy Dennis
Kay
Joanna Roos
Mrs. Stamper
Crystal Field
Hazel
Marla Adams
June
Lynn Loring
Carolyn
Phyllis Diller
Texas Guinan
Sean Garrison
Glenn
Martin Abrahams
Student (uncredited)
Jim Antonio
Oil Field Worker at Party (uncredited)
Lou Antonio
Oil Field Worker at Party (uncredited)
Godfrey Cambridge
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Ivor Francis
Dr. Judd (uncredited)
William Inge
Reverend Whitman (uncredited) / Writer
Phoebe Mackay
Stampers' Maid (uncredited)
Kermit Murdock
Dean Pollard (uncredited)
Charles Robinson
Johnny Masterson (uncredited)
Eugene Roche
Private Detective (uncredited)
Mark Slade
Rusty (uncredited)
Iris Whitney
Deanie's High School Friend (uncredited)
Elia Kazan
Director / Producer
Splendor in the Grass Ratings & Reviews
Jet Magazine
Louie Robinson
Under the direction of famed Elia Kazan, Natalie Wood turns in a performance that will surprise many moviegoers for its excellence, and Warren Beatty makes his debut as a film actor slightly spectacular.
Solzy at the Movies
Danielle Solzman
Elia Kazan directs Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty to some of their finest performances in Splendor in the Grass. William Inge's Oscar-winning screenplay leaves something more to be desired but the film's cast is able to elevate the script for what it is.
InSession Film
Zita Short
We have gotten smart enough to resist the allure of Inge's pretentious but inane dialogue.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
With his ripe lips, flirty eyes, and pre-Calvin Klein-era androgynous appeal, the 24-year-old Warren is utterly believable as a boy who drives Natalie Wood plumb insane with sexual frustration in William Inge's overheated melodrama.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Classic of repressed teenage sexuality.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
This romantic sudser is darker than those of its day, as it shockingly deals with matters Hollywood had previously kept under wraps.
DVDTalk.com
David Cornelius
A smug sneer toward all the squares.
Variety
Variety Staff
There is something awkward about the picture's mechanical rhythm. There are missing links and blind alleys within the story.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy."
TV Guide
Youth exploitation pictures were all the rage at the time, and while this is better than some in execution and intent, it's still exactly that.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
One of Kazan's two or three mastrpieces, this powerful small-town film examines growing pains, respressed sexuality, and social hypocrisy, featuring Warren Beatty, in an astonishing screen debut, and Natalie Wood, at their very best.
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
a sometimes-devastating portrait of youth culture on the brink
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
The authority and eloquence of the theme emerge in the honest, sensitive acting of Mr. Beatty and Miss Wood.
Kalamazoo Gazette
James Sanford
Probably Wood's finest hour
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Like nobody else, Kazan succeeded in capturing the overheated, self-pitying dramatization so near and dear to the teenage heart.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Watchable but not great.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
Splendor in the Grass (1961) is another of director Elia Kazan's dramatic, hyperbolic films with daring and controversial content for its times - sexual repression
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