Joanne Woodward's loveliness and pitch-perfect acting are captured in this episode of Dick Powell's Four Star Playhouse. Dick plays her May/December first love (platonic) in this very simple but effective story.
Some 70 years later an audience would demand more from this 1/2 hour, but as an artifact it retains its initial charm. The script specifies about an age difference of 20 years, but Powell was 26 years older than the starlet, who's playing a teen on the eve of her high school (private boarding school) graduation.
She's neglected by her well-to-do family and the other girls, way too shy to fit in. They don't invite her to parties and the school mistress (nicely underplayed by Nana Bryant, late in her career) worries about her.
One night she's sitting alone on a pier reading poetry, when Dick Powell docks his boat and she lends him a hand. He's divorced and works as a foreign correspondent, traveling all over and also lonely. They hit it off and she falls for him, but Powell's only there temporarily and has to get on with his own globe-trotting commitments. He sadly misses her prom but shows up for her graduation ceremony.
As the title suggests, this represents a mere snippet in each of their lives. There's no real drama or plot turnaround, and never a suggestion of lust or taboo sex around the corner. More recently, such casting would be instantly suspect, but Joanne's acting makes it work here.