John McGovern

When I Grow Up -- Against a collage of sampled February, 2010 news media reports and digitally animated images,which paint a very grim picture of the world today, a group of Australian and South African primary school children optimistically say how the world will be when

Screen legends Warren Beatty, in an auscpicious debut, and Natalie Wood are perfectly cast in this sensual, sentimental and romantic drama set in rural Kansas. At the end of the Roaring '20s, Wood and Beatty are teens in love, torn apart by family and sexual and peer pressures. At the beginning of the Great Depression, Wood is an emotionally broken young woman who revisits her past while trying to rebuild her life. Oscar-winner Elia Kazan ("On the Waterfront," "East of Eden") directed, and the screenplay by William Inge ("Picnic," "Bus Stop") won an Oscar, with a nomination for Wood. Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.

Having previously collaborated on "A Summer Place," a film that helped define romantic love for a generation of moviegoers, writer/director Delmer Daves and teen idol Troy Donahue re-teamed to tell this story of an ambitious young man determined to make his fortune. He enters high society with little more than his name, his hopes, and the love of his doting mother (Claudette Colbert in her last feature film role). Juggling and struggling with relationships with no fewer than three young women along the way, he ultimately enlists the support of a savvy tobacco grower in his dangerous confrontation with a ruthless tycoon.

Having previously collaborated on 'A Summer Place,' a film that helped define romantic love for a generation of moviegoers, writer/director Delmer Daves and teen idol Troy Donahue re-teamed to tell this story of an ambitious young man determined to make his fortune. He enters high society with little more than his name, his hopes, and the love of his doting mother (Claudette Colbert in her last feature film role). Juggling and struggling with relationships with no fewer than three young women along the way, he ultimately enlists the support of a savvy tobacco grower in his dangerous confrontation with a ruthless tycoon.