Was about to turn in. Then they started showing the classic romance story "Splendor In The Grass" on TV. What to do? Gotta watch this one.
The 1961 film with Warren Beatty in his debut appearance and directed by Kazan who was also the director of A Streetcar Named Desire, has many themes: love, puritan values, upbringing, excesses, rebelling...
Most grabbing is Natalie Wood's remarkable performance in her role as the teenager Deanie. Her struggle between her passionate love for Bud (Warren Beatty) and the conservative moral values of 1920s American society is most moving.
The title is taken from W Wordsworth's poem:
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 SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...