Splendor in the Grass

[Anglynn74]

I was told a long time ago that it was insinuated somewhere in the film that Wood's character got pregnant by her boyfriend??? someone correct me on this if I'm wrong.

[DarkStarHarry]

@4:29 is a shot of Dobbs Ferry High School, Dobbs Ferry NY

[iloveicarly84]

Natalie Wood looks like Kimberly Williams and Warren Beatty reminds me of James Franco

[junysaerus]

great film and most favourite poem beautiful junysawrus

[countryhoney28]

She breaks your heart. What a sad commentary of how young women think they have no worth. Women, or men should never forsake their innocents just because they are pressured by the men in their lives do put out. She is so tormented because she has dignity not to be the rule but the exception when it comes sex. I wish this could be shown in the high schools, no better lesson comes to mind to show men and women what not to do. You just want to hug her and tell her that no man is worh this sacrifice

[Gravitas26]

Anytime in our lives false hope can do so many things to the heart and mind....

[tismurdis]

Natalie was AMAZING in this! robbed of much deserved Academy Award! This was one of my mother's favorite movies and is one of mine now.You cannot deny that Natalie embodies all the confusion,beauty,insecurity,an­d passions of a teenager coming of age.What a talented and deeply missed woman.

[kissrev1]

nice cameo by Sandy Dennis at 4:40- you may remember her from "The Out of Towners" film with Jack lemon.

[unclealand]

This is what happens when a girl has no identity other than some guy's boyfriend. Poor Deanie goes way beyond a broken heart. She has no strength or mind of her own.

[NEBULOSEFFEMER]

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; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.

[natalieebeee13]

my favorite quote from any piece of literature :)

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. so beautiful.

[shirl328]

Just watched this movie, Natalie Wood was so lovely.

[OceanicLoveLetters]

YEs... with time disillusion and realism sets in. The boy you once thought was everything in your teens and early 20s (because you didn't know any better and didn't judge) really turns out to be an ordinary schmo with lots of serious problems. Luckily, some of us escape to much better lives.

[lamona765]

esta parte de la pelicula toco mi corazon....

[nancyfloressantos]

Learn from your mistakes!

[liveecarbme]

Brilliant film-as relevant to todays adolescents as it was then. The universal quest for meaning, balance, understanding and self worth in a world and time that seems so alien. Fantastic story.

[coolflexa]

Girl in front of her could be Molly Ringwald's Mom.

[shelski72]

This scene was so powerful. The acting superb. I found it interested the harlot in this case seems to be tearing and shocked. Anyone?

[hebneh]

Miss Metcalf comes across as semi-nasty in this scene, but she's actually just being a normal teacher dealing with a classroom of apathetic kids who are doing their best to not participate and avoid answering a question. Natalie just happens to be the one who gets singled out, which naturally gives everyone else an immediate moment of relief that it wasn't them.

[Coppelia1984]

Preciosa Natalie, impresionante escena la que se desarrolla durante la clase.

Adoro esta película.

[MrMilton109]

Um dos filmes que me fizeram chorar vezes seguidas.

[eyekandi69]

24hrs and and still crying

[seesawboutique]

what a great movie! love this.

[flblu]

film molto triste

[LisaHaileyy]

I've been through the very same thing

[sweetmay73]

@LisaHaileyy me too. And it still hurts knowing how stupid I was.

[musher37]

This is my very favorite movie. I love Natalie Wood. I hated Bud in this movie for not caring enough, even after she went away. This movie is so realistic though ad I think everyone can relate to different aspects of it at some point in their lives.

[BaaBaaRaa]

This film profoundly influenced my life when I was a young girl. I truly identified with Deenie. Bud was a DUD. A victim of his era and family. What an idiot.  I have no respect for him.

[suzabellq]

This is an intense part of the movie, I remember teachers like these, and feelings like these from my youth...

[QOHS622]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. A beautiful yet sad story of young love, told perfectly for the times. Natalie and Warren were great to look at together on screen.

[QOHS622]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. A beautiful yet sad story of young love, told perfectly for the times. Natalie and Warren were great to look at together on screen.

[bulldogtx]

Natalie Woods finest moment in film..

[iwantwhatiget]

(excluding my doll of a husband who isn't that way) but a lot of the guys here are... interesting.

[iwantwhatiget]

Love this movie it is awesome.

[VTERRELL]

My favorite movie. I have seen countless times. I identify with Deanie. I had a Bud in my life too.

[mrceq]

@VTERRELL

Me too, and I still feel the sense of "what if..."

[bwoody124]

@mrceq I thought I was the only one

[BaaBaaRaa]

Me too! I had a dud Bud in my life and I realize it.

[BaaBaaRaa]

Yes, it all turns out for the best, as she sees... This film is full of repression... a force that twists people in monstrous, dysfunctional directions. Men are obliged to be successful & macho, while women must choose between virginity and whorishness... I hate this time period... and its vestiges I see in some men of my generation (the 65 and up crowd).

[iwantwhatiget]

Well wake up and smell the coffee cause there are men that still think this way. it's called the military xD They expect all the wives to be cheating whores, or house sitters while their husbands are gone. They've got some pretty messed up ideals around this joint.

Not saying all military is the same, but this is what I've faced here for a year now.

[fratello111]

Best!

[jose867]

Brilliant..Just Brilliant!!!

[hebneh]

Unfortunately, everyone's going to lose all their money when the stock market crash happens soon after this, and poor Deenie (Natalie) will go to an insane asylum. Bud (Warren)'s father will go bust too, and Bud will have to leave college, and Deenie will meet a handsome doctor who's also crazy, but they'll both get better and finally Deenie will see the now-poor Bud on his pathetic farm with his homely wife and grimy kid, and she'll know it all turned out for the best.

[furmountain21]

This is what you think? Not even close...she still loved him, and he loved her..but what happened cannot be changed.

[BaaBaaRaa]

HAHA! Yes... Bud becomes ordinary and boring.... Deenie married the handsome doctor and sees the pathetic DuD Bud with his ordinary wife and spawn and she realizes she escaped all that!

[DncnBoy]

i recognized the voice of the teacher...she played Sybils Mom...just the sound of her voice makes me scared LOL

[SoMsGotMilk]

beautiful............

does she kill herself in the end though??

[Apollogranforte]

She does not. :-) She gets over him and goes on with her life.

[danielags16]

OH!!!!!!I just realized the teacher is Sybill's mom!!!(the series with Joanne Woodward and Sally Field)..Oh that's so scary!!!!!

[antiope11]

Brilliant Director Elia Kazan!

[antiope11]

Elia Kazan, known for his creative stage direction, was born Elia Kazanjoglous in Istanbul in 1909 to Greek parents. He directed this film as well as A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and many other films..

[znarf541]

Brilliant performance by natalie wood...

[msjosephine2]

That girl in the orange sweater so smug now that she has the guy. Then she see's that her action's have totally crushed Natalie and cry's too, classic a bad girl with a heart after all.

[rawks24]

bit of symbology with juanita smelling the flowers on the desk...

[aspa72]

this is a very sad scene, tears..tears and tears

[Fragile0Still]

East of Eden is to James Dean, as Splendor in the Grass is to Natalie Wood. Glad to see Elia Kazan bring the emotional intensity and fraility to a youthful woman character.

[Xxbrooke92Xx]

One of the greatest movies ever.

[ellymay57]

I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY

[HugoBossSuperModel]

Natalie Wood is GLORIOUS in this film. Her range in this film is amazing. She plays typical adolescent, spontaneous popular girl, impassioned woman, tormented soul and disillusioned realist all during the course of one great film.

[brushstrokesrock]

This is Natalie's FINEST performance, for me. But, I love her in all of her films.

[alvastarr1]

I actually think she was best in This Property is Condemned.

[TJames1081]

@HugoBossSuperModel  I agree completely - she really had it all, and i think this film showcased her perfectly

[ChrisInFL]

This is a painful yet beautiful scene. Natalie Wood reading this beautiful poem truly from her heart and with the emotions that strike her.

[alvastarr1]

No--you've said it all!

[The2NerdyOnes]

I love this movie.

[george319]

great movie good ending the woman who played the teacher in this clip played sally fields fkd up stepmother in sybil

[Crowrocker71]

This is my favorite movie by Natalie Wood, hated the ending though.

[isobel1982]

I hate the ending too, is so sad...

[daftstephi]

this is one of the best scenes in this movie...

[rosamariaester]

Para mi, esta escena, y este verso personificados por Natalie Wood representan una época " que yo vivi", de mentiras en una sociedad hipócrita ,y los acontecimientos representados en esta pelicula fueron mas comunes de lo que pueda parecer. Agradezco a quien me permitio atraves de este video, precenciar mas una vez la performase en particular y en esta escena de Natalie Wood repitiendo un trecho de "Splendor in the grass", trecho este que define la juventud de mi época. Abrazos a todos.

[milliondollarredhead]

I can't EVER get enough of Natalie Wood in this movie with Warren Beatty. A sincerely beautiful & talented woman...her eyes always said it all!

[TJames1081]

@milliondollarredhead Totally agree - her eyes were the key to her intensity

[choad45]

fabulous performance by Ms Wood

[brushstrokesrock]

Natalie's performance was so powerful...you will really feel sorry for Deanie.

[Jibbie49]

Sandy Dennis, warren Beattie, and beautiful Natalie Wood. What a sad movie.

[spokeshole]

STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL NATALIE ! ! !

[xocolatl3409]

Juanita's a slut!

[danielags16]

I feel sorry for Juanita

[xocolatl3409]

Back in those days, yeah, I'd feel sorry for her too. But, more acceptable(& peer pressure) NOW to sexually explore...

[Juliaflo]

The actress playing Juanita is (or was) Jan Norris.

[isobel1982]

Thank you very much for posting this video.

Splendor in the Grass is an amazing movie, so powerful and so sad...

[LAboy456]

This was really the best year for Natalie Wood: first "Splendor in the grass", finally with "West Side Story"... ;)

Great actress (with a very individual and original class in performances) that will always be missed... :(

[stapril90]

thanks for posting!

[camcam200008]

I love this move and natalie is so beautiful in it and an amazing actress! I love you Nataile Wood!