Screenplay: William Inge

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Natalie Wood · Warren Beatty · Pat Hingle · Audrey Christie

Plot Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast William Holden · Kim Novak · Rosalind Russell · Susan Strasberg

Plot A drifter's plan to finally settle down quickly goes awry when his animal magnetism attracts every woman in town. Starring William Holden and Kim Novak. Nominated for six Academy Awards...

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Burt Lancaster · Shirley Booth · Terry Moore · Richard Jaeckel

Plot For two decades Doc and Lola Delaney avoided coming to terms with what Doc considered a "shot gun" marriage. Lola lost the baby and gives a lot of her affection...

Direction Joshua Logan

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Don Murray · Arthur O'Connell · Betty Field

Plot Innocent rodeo cowboy Bo falls in love with cafe singer Cherie in Phoenix. She tries to run away to Los Angeles but he finds her and forces her to board...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Eva Marie Saint · Warren Beatty · Karl Malden · Angela Lansbury

Plot Ralph and Annabell Willart are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for nothing son Berry-Berry. When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with...

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Robert Preston · Dorothy McGuire · Eve Arden · Angela Lansbury

Plot In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is...

Direction Roy Huggins · Robert Altman · Arthur Hiller · Richard L. Bare

Cast Rhodes Reason · Richard Anderson · Marilyn Maxwell · Joan Freeman

Plot TV Series (1961-1962). 26 episodes. Grace owns the bustop in Sunrise CO. She, waitress Elma, Sheriff Will and District Attorney Glenn watch life through the stories which unfold as passengers...

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Bonnie Bedelia · Josh Brolin · Ben Caswell · J.D. Evermore

Plot The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but then she meets an interesting stranger who just got off the train.

Direction Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Melissa Gilbert · Michelle Pfeiffer · Cyril O'Reilly · Ned Beatty

Plot Two teenagers, in love in pre-Depression Kansas, cope with parental pressure and the strict sexual mores of the day.

Direction Harvey Hart

Cast Ann-Margret · Michael Parks · Janet Margolin · Brad Dexter

Plot A young man returns home after a three year tour of duty in the navy only to find things are somewhat different from when he left. His kid sister has...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Joanne Woodward · Richard Beymer · Claire Trevor · Carol Lynley

Plot Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga's stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the shows money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go....

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Anne Heywood · Donald Pleasence · Robert Vaughn · Earl Holliman

Plot An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and an young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.