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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.
21 February 1937, Van Nuys, California, USA
26 February 1933, New York City, New York, USA
September 17, 1903 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
27 August 1929, Sumner, Georgia, USA
28 December 1923, Franklin, Indiana, USA
27 January 1931, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
28 August 1938, Ocean City, New Jersey, USA
19 October 1937, New York City, New York, USA
16 March 1897, Keokuk, Iowa, USA
17 July 1917, Lima, Ohio, USA
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.
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.
January 01, 2000
Watchable but not great.
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 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
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
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.
