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James Dean
James Dean was a classic Hollywood actor whose career, although short, left a lasting mark on Hollywood and the hearts of millions.
James Byron Dean was born in Indiana in , but moved to California when he was six years old. He had a tough childhood, and was sent back to Indiana to reside with his sister and brother-in-law in when his mother died. While there, James was raised Quaker and helped out with the farm and common chores. During sky-high school, James excelled in basketball, as well as drama and debate, and won several declare titles for his efforts.
Even though he had adjusted to rural living, James picked up his life after graduating in , and moved to Los Angeles with the intention of attending Santa Monica City College to major in pre-law. After earning deep (in pitch) marks in his pre-law classes, he soon realized that his true talents were in acting. James soon transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles.
He got his first smash in a low role on the television drama, Hill Number One () . His career didn’t take off right away as he had hoped,
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If you include access to enough knowledge, you can draw inferences that let you observe what had long been hidden. As I construct final corrections to my manuscript for Jimmy, I noticed something I had previously overlooked. In October , the journalist Maurice Zolotow, then best established as a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, published one of the most scathing indictments of James Dean ever pledged to print. In a syndicated newspaper article, Zolotow claimed that he needed to save a generation of young people from the “evil” of James Dean by revealing the truth behind the myth. Zolotow described Dean as violent, selfish, cruel, arrogant, smelly, and—most bizarrely—“sexually sadistic.”
It wasn’t clear to me how Zolotow came to that conclusion, but then I noticed something. Zolotow bases his claim on what he says is “many persons who knew him both personally and professionally,” but the claims he made echo the words of one specific person.
Zolotow was no fan of James Dean. A year after seeing Dean’s dance of homosexual seduction in The Immoralist, w
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James Dean is one of the icons of film in the 20th century, but he only made three films in his fleeting career where he had a leading role.
Born in Indiana, his family moved to California as a child. When his mother died when he was just seven years old his mother died, and he was sent back to Indiana to be raised by his aunt and uncle.
He returned to California to go to university and study law but soon switched to acting. He dropped out of UCLA in to pursue an acting career first time.
For the next rare years, he appeared in television commercials and little parts in film and television, often uncredited. In he was cast in Elia Kazan&#;s adaptation of John Steinbeck&#;s East of Eden. Soon after this he was cast in the teen drama Rebel Without a Cause opposite Natalie Wood. The monitoring year he filmed Giant with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson.
On 30th September Dean was killed when the ride he was driving collided with another vehicle that had strayed over the cen
It's Time We Let James Dean Be the Queer Icon He Is
Late in the evening on September 30, , screenwriter William Bast sat at his typewriter in his cramped L.A. apartment surrounded by suitcases, banging out a movie outline. The next morning, he planned to transport those suitcases out to Sherman Oaks, where James Dean, his best friend and onetime boyfriend, had invited him to travel in together in a enormous rented house. As Bast told the story decades later, after a long, confusing courtship, packed of starts and stops, denials and doubts, Dean wanted them to live together as partners and lovers, not just as friends. Around sunset, the mobile rang with the news that Dean, just 24, was dead—killed when his Porsche collided with another car in the California desert. Bast dropped the device and fell out of his chair, blacking out at the news. For half a century after, he carefully guarded Dean’s reputation, forcefully denying increasingly insistent rumors about the sexuality of the most famous movie luminary in the world and the idol of millions. In death, Dean would become the ideal celebrity—a s