Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically different backgrounds -- one wealthy, the other staunchly puritanical -- they allow class differences to prevent any possible union. Their passions exist purely in their hearts and minds, but the couple never physically or socially express this forbidden love. Later in life, Deanie is institutionalized following a breakdown, and she eventually returns home to resolve her feelings about Bud.Splendor in the Grass | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com
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The film's title is taken from a line of William Wordsworth's poem "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood":
- What though the radiance which was once so bright
- Be now for ever taken from my sight,
- Though nothing can bring back the hour
- Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
- We will grieve not, rather find
- Strength in what remains behind...
- Star: Natalie Wood
- Star: Warren Beatty
- Star: Audrey Christie
- Star: Pat Hingle
- Star: Barbara Loden
- Star: Zohra Lampert
- Star: Fred Stewart
- Star: Gary Lockwood
- Composer: David Amram
- Director: Elia Kazan
- Director of Photography: Boris Kaufman
- Editor: Gene Milford
- Producer: Elia Kazan
- Production Designer: Richard Sylbert
- Writer: William Inge
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