Splendor in the Grass

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Splendor In The Grass, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Splendor In The Grass, 1961.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces Splendor In The Grass, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Splendor In The Grass, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Splendor In The Grass, 1961.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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