Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass follows the unrequited and forbidden but superheated romance between working-class high schooler Natalie Wood and rich kid Warren Beatty. Together they learn the harsh lesson of love and life in the '20s and sadly go their separate ways.
7 December 1906, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
14 July 1944, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1902, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
20 February 1908, Pasadena, California, USA
27 January 1931, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
27 June 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 April 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
13 May 1937, New York City, New York, USA
17 July 1917, Lima, Ohio, USA
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
30 March 1937, Richmond, Virginia, USA
27 April 1937, Hastings, Nebraska, USA
January 01, 2000
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
March 02, 2009
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."
January 31, 2007
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.
June 19, 2010
This romantic sudser is darker than those of its day, as it shockingly deals with matters Hollywood had previously kept under wraps.
January 23, 2003
Probably Wood's finest hour
November 01, 2007
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.
January 01, 2000
Watchable but not great.
February 09, 2006
A complicated film that never really successfully yokes together the themes of money-making and sexuality, it reveals both Kazan's operatic sensibility and his inability to follow an argument rigorously through.
