American Beauty

American Beauty may refer to:

  • Rosa 'American Beauty', a hybrid perpetual rose
  • American Beauty (album), a 1970 album by the Grateful Dead
  • American Beauty (film), a 1999 film starring Kevin Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes
    • American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score, original score to the film
    • American Beauty (soundtrack), a 1999 soundtrack to the film
  • American Beauty (Edna Ferber novel), a 1931 novel
  • American Beauty (Zoey Dean novel), a 2006 novel in the A-List series
  • American Beauty (1927 film), a lost 1927 silent film romantic drama

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or beauty:

    “We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)