| Films inspired by James Byron Dean |
| The James Dean Story |
| 1957 |
| James Dean: The First American Teenager |
| 1976 |
| September 30, 1955 |
| 1977 |
| Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean |
| 1982 |
| James Dean: Race With Destiny |
| 1998 |
| James' Bit Parts in Films |
| Fixed Bayonets |
| 1951 |
| Sailor Beware |
| 1952 |
| Has anybody seen my gal? |
| 1952 |
| About Pier Angeli: - James Dean was very much in love with IItalian-born and bred actress Pier Angeli. She returned the feeling and the two wanted to get married, but Angeli's mother didn't like Dean and denied her daughter he wish to get married to Dean for he wasn't Catholic. Pier's mother soon fixed her up with Vic Damone. Shortly before Pier committed suicide in 1971(she overdosed on sleeping pills) she wrote that Dean was the only man she had ever really loved. |
| About his alleged affairs: - The Warner Brothers PR made up his so-called affairs with various starlets. |
| Songs and Lyrics inspired by James Dean: -Immortalized in 1974 by the song 'Rock On' sung by Essex, David. -The Eagles penned a lyric about him thatt went: "Too fast to live, too young to die." Academy Awards -He is the only actor in history to receiive more than one Oscar nomination posthumously. -He is one of only five actors to receivee an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance. |
| About his middle name, Byron: -James Dean got his middle name, Byron, from his mothers favorite poet Lord Byron. His mother always read poetry. The Accident: -The famous Failure Analysis Associates, from Menlo Park, California, re-constructed and re-created all details of the accident at the same approximate time on September 30th, and have concluded that James Dean was travelling 55 to 56 m.p.h. when the fateful accident occured, thereby proving he had not been speeding, as rumor had it. -He was issued a speeding ticket only twoo hours and fifteen minutes before his fatal accident. |
| Quotes by and about Dean: |
| "Only the gentle are ever really strong." -Dean "Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results." -Dean "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -Dean "The damaged but beautiful soul of our time." -Andy Warhol "An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art." -Dean on Acting and Experiences "It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle." -Dean "He would be bothered when someone would say he was mean and disrespectful. Because actually, he wasn't. They took silence to mean he cared little or nothing for them. They didn't have the insight, or didn't care to exercise the insight, in knowing that he was a shy boy that just didn't know how to approach them. Instead of making an attempt to approach him, they just, well, they just wrote him off." -Lew Bracker "To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done." -Dean "Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known." -Dennis Hopper "Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed." -Dean When told he was too short to be an actor: ";How can you measure acting in inches?" -Dean "Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, 'Wait. Let me see.'And above all, you must be honest with yourself." -James Dean to Hedda Hopper "When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that, to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons." - Dean on Acting and Advice from the direector "He was very afraid of being hurt. He was afraid of opening up in case it was turned around and used against him." -Elizabeth Taylor "He could look in a delicatessen window and suddenly start waving at a bowl of prunes, like they were alive. He was childish in a charming way." -Christine White "Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius." -Martin Sheen "He didn't show you very much. He'd challenge you to find him. Then when you'd found him, he'd still make you guess. It was an endless game with him. The thing people missed about Jimmy was his mischievousness. He was the most constantly mischievous person I think I've ever met. Full of tricks, full of magic, full of outrageousness." - Stewart Stern "All of us were touched by Jimmy, and he was touched by greatness." - Natalie Wood "I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark." -James Dean's father Winton in Modern Scrreen, August 1955 "It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity." -Humphrey Bogart "I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on 'Dynasty' or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere." -Jane Leeves "A spooky, oddball, non-conformist, sullen and withdrawn, a member of the dirty shirt school of acting, a crazy mixed-up kid, a working eccentric and yes--a fourteen karat, ball-bearing genius." -Mark Dayton, writer "Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other young man my age. And I've discovered that most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes. Therefore, when I do play a youth, such as in Warner Bros., Rebel Without A Cause, I try to imitate life. The picture deals with the problems of modern youth. It is the romanticized conception of the juvenile that causes much of our trouble with misguided youth nowadays. I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. You know, a lot of times an older boy, one of the fellows the young ones idolize, can go back to the high school kids and tell them, "Look what happened to me! Why be a punk and get in trouble with the law? Why do these senseless things just for a thrill?"; I hope "t;Rebel Without A Cause" will do something like that. I hope it will remind them that other people have feelings. Perhaps they will say, "What do we need all that for?" If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture." -from an interview at a preview of Rebel Without A Cause "I'm obsessed. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I'm hoping to keep his memory going. It's a tribute." -David Loehr (Dean Archivist, The James DDean Gallery, Fairmount, Indiana) "When I worked with him on TV, I found him to be an intelligent young actor who seemed to live only for his work. He was completely dedicated and although a shy person, he could hold a good conversation on many wide-ranging subjects." -Ronald Reagan A few weeks before the group recorded its first hit record, "LOVE ME DO" in 1962, fifth member Stewart Sutcliffe died at the age of 21. Years later, John Lennon is quoted as saying: "[Stewart Sutcliffe] was really our leader, and he was really into the James Dean thing. He idolized him. Stewart died young before we made the big time, but I suppose you could say that without Jimmy Dean, The Beatles would have never existed." |
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