Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Splendor In The Grass (1961)

Splendor in the Grass - (Original Trailer)

Warren Beatty made his screen debut in Elia Kazan's Splendor In The Grass (1961) co-starring Natalie Wood.

Splendor In The Grass (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Down On My Knees

Sudden leap into suggestive, gothic Midwestern weirdness as 1920's Kansas teens Wilma-Dean (Natalie Wood) and Bud (Warren Beatty) arrive at her house then have to dodge her mother, in Elia Kazan's Splendor In The Grass, 1961, from William Inge's screenplay.

Splendor In The Grass (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Two Kinds Of Girls

Self-made millionaire Ace Stamper (Pat Hingle) dismisses daughter Ginny (Barbara Loden) before his sexually repressed star athlete son Bud (Warren Beatty) tries to talk about his future, in Elia Kazan's Splendor In The Grass, 1961.

Splendor In The Grass (1961) -- (Movie Clip) What The Poet Means

Lit teacher (Martine Bartlett) calls upon Wilma-Dean (Natalie Wood), seated behind Juanita (Jan Norris) who's just taken up with her boyfriend, to read a poem, William Wordsworth supplying the movie's title, in Splendor In The Grass, 1961, from William Inge's original screenplay.

Splendor In The Grass (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Gone Too Far

Bud (Warren Beatty) drops off Wilma-Dean (Natalie Wood) after a date, whereupon she's interrogated by her eavesdropping mother (Audrey Christie), early in Elia Kazan's Splendor In The Grass, 1961, from William Inge's script.

Splendor In The Grass (1961) -- (Movie Clip) They're Kind Of Dull

Kansas, 1927 Stamper family Christmas photo, reckless Ginny (Barbara Loden, who would marry director Elia Kazan), introduces her bootlegger boyfriend to father (Pat Hingle) and brother Bud (Warren Beatty), in Splendor In The Grass, 1961.