Splendor in the Grass is finally out on Blu-Ray

LOVE the "SLUTTY TRAMPY SISTER"!!

I'm a GOOD GIRL I AM!!

The French loved it, a lot of American critics thought it was over-heated and over the top. Young people loved it, and was part of the early ‘60s trend in movies to normaize pre-marital sex.

It used to be on TV all the time and I grew up loving it. One of Natalie Wood’s two finest performances (the other is “Love With the Proper Stranger”). Barbara Loden’s performance is genuinely harrowing.

Filmed entirely in New York, mostly Staten Island (standing in for rural Kansas) and Westchester.

Oh, Will -- look--they left off the "GR-" on your copy."

Worth a watch, if only for Barbara Loden (who walks away with the picture, and reminds us how limited Natalie Wood was as an actor).

OP, it's been out for years in DVD form.

As R2 said, it was on tv a lot when I was growing up. Most likely The 4:30 Movie (ABC NY) which preceded the talk shows that eventually took over its timeslot. I thought the film was a tad racy and truth be told, every scene Pat Hingle was in, I spent trying to see if they would show his hand with the amputated pinkie.

The only thing I’ve ever seen Barbara Loren in is “Wanda” which she also directed. It’s pretty good. I’d like to see her in this, a more Hollywood-style role, to compare and contrast.

So...much...angst.

Loved Zohra Lampert, shy and beautiful with the chickens in the kitchen.

I like that she looked like a less delicate Natalie, r8.

The kids in the film seem like they're from the 50s and the 60s Though set in 1928 all the kids seem to have cars. How many people even had cars back then?

Was Zohra a stage actress? I hope she had a career of some kind.

A very young Sandy Dennis, too.

Martine Bartlett‘s film debut…later Sybil’s maniac momma.

R4, the “picture”? Are you Ann Miller?

[quote]Was Zohra a stage actress? I hope she had a career of some kind.

r11...

[quote]Solemn-looking Middle Eastern-looking Zohra Lampert, with the prominent cheek bones and soothing voicer, had a touching, understated quality to her talent that should have gone further in the film business than it did. Somehow she never got the breaks necessary for top-flight stardom. Still and all, this comely actress with soft, vulnerable features managed to contribute a number of genuinely affecting performances, particularly on TV.

She's 88.

It’s one if my top 10! It is over the top — but so is first love. It’s quite moving.

It’s only flaw: the weird cameo by Phyllis Diller!

She was playing Texas Guinan, r17.

I know that.

She's just adding some period color, r19.

Of course. But it’s PHYLLIS DILLER!

Natalie was truly gorgeous in this film and it's probably her best performance. And watching the scene where she tries to drown herself is pretty harrowing now.

She wasn't PHYLLIS DILLER then, r21, she was Phyllis Diller. Like Joan Rivers in The Swimmer.

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[quote]Was Zohra a stage actress?

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This film was always ruined for me by its terrible lack of authentic period costuming and hairdressing. The 1920s, for some reason, has always been a historical period particularly resistant to truth in Hollywood film making but the issue is at its worst here.

It really wasn't until the early 1970s when 1920s styles were well captured and represented and that was in two British films, Women In Love and The Boyfriend, both directed by Ken Russell and both designed by his wife Shirley Russell.

Barbara Loden was originally in "The Swimmer" too, but Frank Perry and Burt Lancaster weren't happy with her performance. The producer Sam Spiegel fired Perry and hired Sydney Pollack to reshoot many scenes, including Loden's in which Janice Rule now played the role. Spiegel still wasn't happy with the film and removed his own name from the final credits.

[quote]This film was always ruined for me by its terrible lack of authentic period costuming and hairdressing.

The costumes aren't too off, but the hair and make-up ruin the period effect.

Texas Guinan = lesbian

I tried to get into this movie ,I loved Natalie in This Property Condemned . But all I could think is why is this bitch screaming all the time.??? Jesus,finger bang yourself if you dont want the dick !

Will have to explain to the millennials that it’s not a weed movie

But Child's Garden of Grass *is* a weed book.

R14 to this day, in entertainment contracts, the proper phrase is always “motion picture.”

I bought this too and watched it tonight. I had seen it years and years ago but remembered little of it. Despite the setting and the time in which it was made, it still has a timeless feel to it. Barbara Loden is a real scene-stealer playing Beatty's obnoxious, liberated, freewheeling sister. Her career was not long-lived enough, though she at least gave us this and the somber, unforgettable "Wanda".

There is a straight porn flic called "Splendor In The Ass".

R33, Joan Rivers was already JOAN RIVERS by the time of The Swimmer. She was known from TV talk shows, including her own in NYC, and variety like Ed Sullivan.

She was not ALL CAPS Joan.

r35 see r3

I'm R35, an I can' not see what R3 has to do with my comment.

R39 Really? What happens if you remove the "GR-" from "Grass"?

I thought Natalie was natural and excellent, Thought Barbara Loden was stagey and she overacted.