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** Shortly after said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York speakeasy, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller, and based on real-life entertainer Texas Guinan) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.

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** Shortly after said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York speakeasy, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller, Creator/PhyllisDiller, and based on real-life entertainer Texas Guinan) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.
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''Splendor in the Grass'' is a 1961 film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/NatalieWood and Creator/WarrenBeatty.

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''Splendor in the Grass'' is a 1961 drama film directed by Creator/EliaKazan, starring Creator/NatalieWood and Creator/WarrenBeatty.
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Wood and Beatty are Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper, two [[DawsonCasting high-school]] sweethearts in a small town in 1928 Kansas. Bud's father, Ace (Creator/PatHingle), is the richest man in town, owning an oil company, while Deanie's parents are shopkeepers. The real conflict between the two is not the class difference, however, but their intense desire to have sex with each other, and the social guidelines in small-town America in TheRoaringTwenties that won't let them consummate their relationship. Bud and Deanie's sexual frustration impacts their lives and the lives of several people around them.

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Wood and Beatty are Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper, two [[DawsonCasting high-school]] sweethearts in a small town in 1928 Kansas. Bud's father, Ace (Creator/PatHingle), father (Creator/PatHingle) is the richest man in town, owning an oil company, while Deanie's parents are shopkeepers. The real conflict between the two is not the class difference, however, but their intense desire to have sex with each other, and the social guidelines in small-town America in TheRoaringTwenties that won't let them consummate their relationship. Bud and Deanie's sexual frustration impacts their lives and the lives of several people around them.
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Wood and Beatty are Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper, two [[DawsonCasting high-school]] sweethearts in a small town in 1928 Kansas. Bud's father is the richest man in town, owning an oil company, while Deanie's parents are shopkeepers. The real conflict between the two is not the class difference, however, but their intense desire to have sex with each other, and the social guidelines in small-town America in TheRoaringTwenties that won't let them consummate their relationship. Bud and Deanie's sexual frustration impacts their lives and the lives of several people around them.

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Wood and Beatty are Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper, two [[DawsonCasting high-school]] sweethearts in a small town in 1928 Kansas. Bud's father father, Ace (Creator/PatHingle), is the richest man in town, owning an oil company, while Deanie's parents are shopkeepers. The real conflict between the two is not the class difference, however, but their intense desire to have sex with each other, and the social guidelines in small-town America in TheRoaringTwenties that won't let them consummate their relationship. Bud and Deanie's sexual frustration impacts their lives and the lives of several people around them.
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** At the New Years party, a very inebriated Ginny stumbles into a car with a man she knows, who is possibly her boyfriend. He forces himself on her even though she says no, and they're surrounded by a group of men who seem to be enjoying the show. Bud manages to rescue her before things get too far.

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** At the New Years Year's party, a very inebriated Ginny stumbles into a car with a man she knows, who is possibly may or may not be her current boyfriend. He forces starts to force himself on her even though she says no, and they're surrounded by a group of men who seem to be enjoying the show. Bud manages to rescue her before things get too far.
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* BathtubScene: Probably the most famous scene in the movie, in which a mentally-unraveling Deanie has a conversation with her mom while taking a bath. Besides providing some Natalie Wood {{fanservice}}, it also provides a big Natalie Wood acting moment, with Deanie's angry reaction to her mother's probing questions about whether Bud and Deanie ever had sex.

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* BathtubScene: Probably the most famous scene in the movie, in which a mentally-unraveling Deanie has a conversation confrontation with her mom while taking a bath. Besides providing some Natalie Wood {{fanservice}}, it also provides a big Natalie Wood acting moment, with Deanie's angry reaction to her mother's probing questions about whether Bud and Deanie ever had sex.
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* UptownGirl: Gender-swapped example: Bud's family is much richer than Deanie's.

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* UptownGirl: Gender-swapped example: Bud's family is much richer than Deanie's.Deanie's.

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** Shortly after said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York speakeasy, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller, and based on real-life figure Texas Guinan) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.

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** Shortly after said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York speakeasy, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller, and based on real-life figure entertainer Texas Guinan) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.
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* LoveDoodles: Deanie spends one class period doodling in her notebook instead of paying attention. She writes her boyfriend's name over and over again, surrounded by hearts and in cursive as if in a wedding invitation.
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Wood and Beatty are Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper, two [[DawsonCasting high-school]] sweethearts in a small town in 1928 Kansas. Bud's father is the richest man in town, owning an oil company, while Deanie's parents are shopkeepers. The real conflict between the two is not the class difference, however, but their intense desire to have sex with each other, and the social guidelines in small-town America in TheTwenties that won't let them consummate their relationship. Bud and Deanie's sexual frustration impacts their lives and the lives of several people around them.

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Wood and Beatty are Deanie Loomis and Bud Stamper, two [[DawsonCasting high-school]] sweethearts in a small town in 1928 Kansas. Bud's father is the richest man in town, owning an oil company, while Deanie's parents are shopkeepers. The real conflict between the two is not the class difference, however, but their intense desire to have sex with each other, and the social guidelines in small-town America in TheTwenties TheRoaringTwenties that won't let them consummate their relationship. Bud and Deanie's sexual frustration impacts their lives and the lives of several people around them.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Ginny is definitely not a good girl, as a rebellious ReallyGetsAround type, and she got an abortion in Chicago before the events of the movie began.


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* LadyInRed: Deanie goes to the end of the year dance wearing all red, symbolizing her newly vampish behavior and foreshadowing her attempt to seduce Bud.


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* QuirkyUkulele: Ginny is an early UnbuiltTrope example. She's a liberated [[TheFlapper Flapper]] girl who wants to be an artist and is far hipper than anyone else in her small town, and her main hobby is playing the Ukulele, which she plays along to {{Jazz}} records. She dates many men, who clearly see her as a fun breath of fresh air, but unlike in later examples she's not a ManicPixieDreamGirl. Instead, her promiscuity ruins her reputation and is implied to stem from mental issues.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: A major theme, and deconstructed throughout. Adults repeatedly tell Bud and Deanie that there are "two kinds of girls": one that's ok to marry, and one that's not. Bud's father explicity tells him that he shouldn't have sex with the first kind, and should seek gratification in the second. This causes a great deal of drama and distress for Bud and Deanie, who are in love and very sexually attracted to each other but are forced to repress their desires; these expectations eventually destroy their relationship.
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* DateRape: Seems to be part of the package of being a "bad" girl. Both cases double as AttemptedRape.
** At the New Years party, a very inebriated Ginny stumbles into a car with a man she knows, who is possibly her boyfriend. He forces himself on her even though she says no, and they're surrounded by a group of men who seem to be enjoying the show. Bud manages to rescue her before things get too far.
** At the end of the year ball, after Bud turns her down Deanie ends up in a car at make-out point with her original date. She has to physically fight off his advances and runs away.


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* MakeOutPoint: There's a road overlooking a waterfall which is popular for all the teens to go and make out/have sexual encounters. Deanie and Bud spend many evenings there, and many couples are interrupted when Deanie tries to jump off the waterfall.
* MyBelovedSmother: Deanie's mother is very overbearing and hyperconcerned with her daughter's virginity. In one scene at the mental hospital, Deanie is in a great mood and seemingly doing great, until her mother's excessive judgement causes her to become mentally disturbed once again.
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* AllWomenArePrudes: Deconstructed. 1920s American society expects women to be like that; when Deanie asks her mother if she ever felt "that way" about her husband, she explains that that no nice girl has sexual desires, and she never enjoyed sex with him (see LieBackAndThinkOfEngland below). This causes Deanie to feel guilty about her own desires and prevents her from consummating her relationship with Bud - which eventually leads to heartbreak.

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* AllWomenArePrudes: Deconstructed. 1920s American society expects women to be like that; when Deanie asks her mother if she ever felt "that way" about her husband, she explains that that no nice girl has sexual desires, and she never enjoyed sex with him (see LieBackAndThinkOfEngland below). This causes Deanie to feel guilty about her own desires and prevents her from consummating her relationship with Bud - Bud, which eventually leads to heartbreak.
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** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister notes that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel..."). A year later, both families are blindsided by the infamous stock-market crash.

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** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister notes that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel...steal..."). A year later, both families are blindsided by the infamous stock-market crash.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: It's a quote from Creator/WilliamWordsworth poem "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood".

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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: It's a quote from Creator/WilliamWordsworth Creator/WilliamWordsworth's poem "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood".
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** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister notes that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel..."). A year later, both families will be blindsided by the 1929 stock-market crash.

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** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister notes that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel..."). A year later, both families will be are blindsided by the 1929 infamous stock-market crash.
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** Shortly after said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York nightclub, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.

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** Shortly after said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York nightclub, speakeasy, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller) Diller, and based on real-life figure Texas Guinan) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.
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'''Deanie''': I'm not. I'm not a nice girl.

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'''Deanie''': I'm not. ''not''. I'm not ''not'' a nice girl.



** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister acknowledges that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel..."). A year later, both families will be blindsided by the 1929 stock-market crash.

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** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister acknowledges notes that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel..."). A year later, both families will be blindsided by the 1929 stock-market crash.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shortly after the stock-market crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York nightclub, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Sometime in the fall of 1928, the Stampers and Loomises attend a church service where the minister acknowledges that it's "a time of great prosperity for us all", but admonishes his flock by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting Matthew 6:19-20]] ("Lay not up treasures for yourself on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do break through and steel..."). A year later, both families will be blindsided by the 1929 stock-market crash.
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Shortly after the stock-market said crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York nightclub, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.
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''Splendor in the Grass'' marked Wood's arrival as a serious adult actress after starting out as a child actress and transitioning to "teenager" roles in films like ''Film/RebelWithoutACause''; she was nominated for a Best Actress UsefulNotes/AcademyAward. (William Inge was also nominated, and won, for his original screenplay.) This film is also notable as Warren Beatty's film debut; he would become one of the cinematic heartthrobs of the [[TheSixties '60s]] and [[TheSeventies '70s]].

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''Splendor in the Grass'' marked Wood's arrival as a serious adult actress after starting out as a child actress and transitioning to "teenager" roles in films like ''Film/RebelWithoutACause''; she was nominated her performance earned her an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for a Best Actress UsefulNotes/AcademyAward.Actress. (William Inge was also nominated, and won, for his original screenplay.) This film is also notable as Warren Beatty's film debut; he would become one of the cinematic heartthrobs of the [[TheSixties '60s]] and [[TheSeventies '70s]].
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%%* BittersweetEndingBittersweetEnding: For both Deanie and Bud.
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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her smoking and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)

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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her smoking and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually (Toward the end of the film it's revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)
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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and smoking and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)

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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her smoking and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)
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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)

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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and smoking and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)
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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)

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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness.sluttiness and her [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ukulele-playing]]. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)
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* BathtubScene: Probably the most famous scene in the movie, in which Deanie has a conversation with her mom while Deanie is in the bathtub. Besides providing some Natalie Wood fanservice, it also provides a big Natalie Wood acting moment, with Deanie's angry reaction to her mother's probing questions about whether Bud and Deanie ever had sex.

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* BathtubScene: Probably the most famous scene in the movie, in which a mentally-unraveling Deanie has a conversation with her mom while Deanie is in the bathtub. taking a bath. Besides providing some Natalie Wood fanservice, {{fanservice}}, it also provides a big Natalie Wood acting moment, with Deanie's angry reaction to her mother's probing questions about whether Bud and Deanie ever had sex.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shortly after the stock-market crash, Bud's father takes him to a New York nightclub, where the hostess (played by Phyllis Diller) jokes about having to "dodge the bodies jumping out of windows" while trying to get a taxi. Later that night, his father kills himself by jumping from his hotel window.
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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness. A pretty negative example, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)

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* TheFlapper: Bud's sister Ginny, with her cocktail dresses and her bob haircut and her dancing and her drinking and her extreme sluttiness. A pretty negative example, however, as Ginny obviously has some deep psychological problems. (It's eventually revealed that she [[spoiler:was killed in a car accident]].)

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