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This is the context in which The
James Dean Story appears, and although it has been largely ignored in favor of the three preceding Dean films, Story is arguably the most compelling of Warner Bros.' Dean pictures.
I felt I'd known him for years." Natalie, the child of Russian immigrants, was 19 when in 1955
James Dean, who by now had leaped to fame in East of Eden, insisted that she be his co-star in Rebel Without A Cause.
CUTLINE: (1) Heath Ledger (2)
James Dean (3) Mary-Kate Olsen
For our purposes, we'll refer to them here as education's
James Deans; except that these subversives are rebels with a cause.
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"Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted;
James Dean changed the way people lived," suggests actor Martin Sheen.
And what soon surfaced from this collaboration was a series of rare and intimate photographs of, and by,
James Dean. Though the photographs since were thought lost, in their recent discovery, the images are now available for public viewing for a limited time on the 50th anniversary of Dean's death.
Actor
James Dean may be the ultimate symbol of restless youth of the 1950s.
Worthwhile for the wealth of hitherto unseen clips from many TV shows in which
James Dean cut his acting teeth, "
James Dean: Forever Young" is nevertheless the squarest and straightest (in both senses) possible telling of the still dazzling icon's brief life.
He likes to restage legendary road accidents, such as the ones that killed
James Dean, Grace Kelly and Jane Mansfield.
I'm a big fan of
James Dean. His motto was "live fast, die young," and he died in a car accident.