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Love is for the Very Young: ‘Splendor in the Grass’ (1961)

September 29, 2012 By retromoviebuff Leave a Comment

A gushing waterfall. Teenagers kiss, the torrent of their adolescent passion barely held in check. Abandon all hope of subtlety, all ye who watch this movie. Deanie Loomis (Natalie Wood) and Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty, in his screen debut) are high school sweethearts living in claustrophobic small-town Kansas in the late 1920s. It’s the sort […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Academy Awards, Classic Hollywood, Drama, Melodrama, Natalie Wood, Oscars, Warren Beatty, William Inge

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