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With Natalie Wood, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden. 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.
- Elia Kazan
- 156
- 4 min
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American period drama film produced and directed by Elia Kazan, from a screenplay written by William Inge. It stars Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty (in his film debut) as two high school sweethearts, navigating feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.
- $4 million (US / Canada) or $5.5 million
- David Amram
- Elia Kazan
What is the poem in the movie “Splendor in the Grass?” The poem recited in the film “Splendor in the Grass” (1961) is William Wordsworth’s well-known Romantic poem of the same name. Wordsworth relates the peak of one’s youth to the temporary splendor of “grass” and the glory of “flowers.”
- Female
- October 9, 1995
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Summaries. 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. It's 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other.
Bud (Warren Beatty) and his high school sweetheart, Deanie (Natalie Wood), are weighed down by their parents' oppressive expectations, which threaten the future of their relationship.
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- Natalie Wood
- Elia Kazan
- NBI Productions
Splendor in the Grass received three Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama (Warren Beatty), and Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama (Natalie Wood). In 2002 the American Film Institute ranked Splendor in the Grass number 47 on its definitive list of the top 100 Greatest Love Stories of All Time.
Splendor in the Grass, American film drama, released in 1961, that examines repressed love and the sexual frustrations of a teenage couple. Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, in his first screen role, play high school lovers Deanie and Bud in a small Kansas town in the 1920s. They struggle to stay.
