With only a couple of television appearances and one prior movie role under her belt, co-starring with fellow young thespians Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood, in "Splendor in the Grass," Sandy Dennis gives a fine authentic portrayal of a feisty mountain girl living with her grandmother and yearning to escape this somewhat sheltered and un-romantic existence.
Dennis has not yet adopted her stilted and very mannered style she exhibited in later (somewhat annoying to me) movie roles, such as in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "Up the Down Staircase," and "The Fox" to name a very few. Her most grating performance was in "The Four Seasons" where she also annoyed and was divorced from her movie husband played by Len Cariou (of "Blue Bloods.")
It is also fascinating to see other soon-to-be prolific character actors in an early role, such as Bruce Dern (father with ex-wife Diane Ladd of Laura Dern of "Jurassic Park"), R. G. Armstrong ("Ride the High Country") and Frank Sutton (of 60's TV series "Gomer Pyle, USMC.")
Overall, an excellent episode featuring a lovely, very young Sandy Dennis.
Dennis has not yet adopted her stilted and very mannered style she exhibited in later (somewhat annoying to me) movie roles, such as in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," "Up the Down Staircase," and "The Fox" to name a very few. Her most grating performance was in "The Four Seasons" where she also annoyed and was divorced from her movie husband played by Len Cariou (of "Blue Bloods.")
It is also fascinating to see other soon-to-be prolific character actors in an early role, such as Bruce Dern (father with ex-wife Diane Ladd of Laura Dern of "Jurassic Park"), R. G. Armstrong ("Ride the High Country") and Frank Sutton (of 60's TV series "Gomer Pyle, USMC.")
Overall, an excellent episode featuring a lovely, very young Sandy Dennis.