Identity in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass Arthur Rankin March 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass (1961) concerns the problems encountered by two teenagers – Wilma Dean (“Deanie”) Loomis (Natalie Wood) and Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty) – living in Kansas at the end of the 19...
