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A Summer Place
Why this pick
Like Splendor in the Grass, it treats first love as something constrained by adult hypocrisy and class expectations, with lush melodrama and an aching sense of innocence being lost.
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MOVIE1961 2h 4m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A bruising early-1960s portrait of a young woman drawn into a destructive romance, matching Kazan’s film in its emotional intensity, sexual repression, and disillusionment with admired men.
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Wild in the Country
Why this pick
Its troubled small-town young lovers, family pressures, and volatile yearning echo the social confines and raw adolescent turmoil that make Splendor in the Grass so painful.
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The Last Picture Show
Why this pick
This unsparing small-town coming-of-age drama shares the earlier film’s faded American atmosphere, sexual frustration, lonely young people, and compassion for lives narrowed by convention.
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Picnic
Why this pick
Another emotionally charged Kansas-set drama in which desire disrupts respectable routines; its heat, yearning, and tension between social standing and genuine feeling closely suit Splendor in the Grass.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Natalie Wood
Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis
Warren Beatty
Arthur 'Bud' Stamper
Pat Hingle
Ace Stamper
Audrey Christie
Mrs. Frieda Loomis
Barbara Loden
Virginia 'Ginny' Stamper
Fred Stewart
Del Loomis
Sandy Dennis
Kay
Joanna Roos
Mrs. Stamper