James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8th 1931 with Marion, Indiana - September 30th 1955) was a American Acteur . Like Bruce Lee or Marilyn Monroe, its tragic death at the 24 years age at the top of its glory with contributed to guarantee its statute of legend of the American Cinéma. It is the symbol of youth in distress of the Années 1950.

Childhood

James Dean was born with Marion in the Indiana the February 8th 1931 towards 2:00 from the morning. Wire of Winton and Mildred Dean. Six years after his/her father gives up his work with the farm to become Dentiste, its family leaves to settle with Santa Monica in California. James Dean enters then to the Public school of the district of Brentwood to Los Angeles, until the death of her mother in 1940, deceased of the continuations of a Cancer of the uterus (James Dean will not really know it, it at the time acted of a subject a little taboo) whereas it is 9 years old, which leaves it in a deep distress.

James is then sent in the Indiana to Fairmount, to live at his uncle and his aunt, Marcus and Ortense Winslow. With the college, James initiates himself with the Théâtre and practical the Basket-ball, where its size of 1m73 (according to IMDB) does not prevent it from being very a good player but its Myopie prevents it from appearing completely in this sport. After having obtained its diploma in 1949, it leaves Fairmount for Los Angeles, where it joined his father who remarié himself whereas it is 18 years old

It enters to the University of Santa Monica where it is integrated in the brotherhood of the Naked Sigma. It is then transferred towards the the University of California in Los Angeles. They is at that time that it is invested completely in the Théâtre, causing a great cause of dissension with his/her father: he leaves it to live in an apartment with a friend of the name of William Bast.

Family: neither brother nor sister.

Career

James Dean begins her career of actor by making odd jobs as guard of carpark and while turning in an advertizing for the Pepsi Cola. It leaves the university to be able to devote itself entirely to its passion of actor, and follows courses of comedy to the Actors Studio of New York. It then makes appearances in various series of Télévision like: Kraft Television Theater , Studio One , Video Lux Theater , Danger , Robert Montgomery Present and General Electric Theater .

He also plays Théâtre where he is a great success with Broadway with New York in the part of André Gide, Immoraliste , which propels it in the world of the Cinéma.

He appears in various films little known, but it is its role of Cal Trask in '' In the east of Eden '', where he accepted besides a nomination with the Oscars for the male best supporting role (first posthumous nomination of the history of the Oscars), which returns it celebrates and reveals all its dramatic genius. It then connects with the Fury of living , then Géant , its last film where it also accepted a nomination with the Oscars for the better actor.

In the east of Eden

The realizer Elia Kazan sought an actor to interpret the role of Cal Trask in his new film, '' In the east of Eden ''. Dean and another unknown actor at the time, Paul Newman, were the last two choices of Elia Kazan. Finally, it is Dean which obtained the role.

Elia Kazan said of him: “I chose Jimmy because it was Cal. There was no doubt, nobody could not play it better than him”.

The March 8th 1954, Dean leaves New York and goes to Los Angeles to begin the turning of film. Dean plays the part of one young man to the research of the love of his/her father, played by Raymond Massey.

The relation between Cal and its father is not without pointing out the relation between James Dean and his. Dean does not cease improvising in film. In one of the most outstanding scenes, Cal gives the money which it gained with his father and this one refuses this gift. Cal was to only leave but Dean brought its key and started to cry and tighten Raymond Massey before leaving. This shows well at which point the creativity of Dean did nothing but start. Dean was nominated with the Oscars in this role and became the first actor with being nominated on a purely posthumous basis.

Fury of Living

It continued its rapid rise by interpreting the main role in the Fury of Living , a film which upset certainly the teenagers of the time.

The other stars of film are Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo. The realizer Nicholas Ray let the imagination of James Dean develop in order to recreate the character of Jim Stark. The scene worship reflects the unconcern of the youth of the time: the famous race of car enters the character of Jimmy and Buzz.

During film, James Dean was caught passion for the automobile races and bought her first Porsche 356 Speedster (Chassis number 82621) with whom it started to gain some races.

Giant

Géant left the year after death James Dean, in 1956, and saw Dean playing a secondary part at the sides of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. It did not have the main role but the majority of criticisms of the time said that Dean was incontestably the star of film. The film, which is held over one 50 years period, tells the history of Texans for this period.

It was the last film of James Dean, for whom it was also nominated as a better actor. Only two weeks after the end of the turning of film, James Dean died in an car accident, which constrained production to use another voice to finish the Post-synchronization film.

Its death

After having rolled almost 4 hours, James Dean was going to cross Cholame, a small town of California. At this moment, a young student, Donald Turnupseed, arrive of road 41 at the wheel of a Ford Sedan. James Dean, is to him on US Highway 466. The young student cuts the priority and James Dean tries to circumvent the car: it will not arrive there. It is the shock, the two cars are returned inside, but the helps arrive immediately: two police officers were pilot scene. The passenger of the car of James Dean, his mechanic Rolf Wutherich, is projected car but undergoes only some light wounds, the young student leaves itself there, him also, with only some hématomes. James Dean, as for him, dies on the blow. Its death was announced with 17:59 exactly the September 30th 1955 whereas it is 24 years old.

As opposed to what everyone said, James Dean did not roll excessively quickly, hardly to 88 km/h, it is the student one which rolled too quickly. James Dean had just finished the turning of '' Giant '' ('' Géant ''). Irony of fate, a clause of its contract prohibited to him the automobile races or the dangerous drivings during all the duration of turning.

It is buried today in Park Cemetery with Fairmount.

The student who had cut the priority to James died, him, of a cancer in 1995, by fearing all his life to undergo the madness of fans of James Dean.

Porsche 550 Spyder

It is in 1955 that James Dean acquires one of the 90 Porsche 550 Spyder, that it calls " Little Bastard" (" small bâtard"). After its death, this car became celebrates in spite of it, because it did not only kill the star of the cinema, but also some other people in the years which followed.

Many people believed that the vehicle of the actor was cursed. Georges Barris, which personalized the car of James, buys the wreck of the vehicle 2500 $ and fractures the leg some time later.

A little later it sells the engine and the transmission to the physicists Troy McHenry and William Eschrid. By making the race one against the other, one dies by striking a tree after having lost the control of its car, while the other is seriously wounded after his left the road.

Barris sells the tires of the car: they cause an car accident with the purchaser, and this in spite of the fact that they are in good state.

Two young people try to steal the car but one of them, by taking the wheel of Porsche, opens the arm because of a piece of shredded metal. Later, another man is wounded while trying to steal the operator's seat covered with blood. Lastly, Barris decides to hide the car, which is recovered by California Highway Patrol to expose it as example on the road accidents.

The first exposure knew a disaster: indeed, a fire is declared in the room and only the car in unscathed fate. The second, in a college, has another consequence: the car falls and breaks the leg of a student. On the way leading to Salinas, the truck which transports the vehicle has an accident and the driver is wounded, only because of Porsche. From two other occasions, the car “escaped” from the trucks without causing serious accidents, but by breaking the windshield of a vehicle.

Finally, in 1959, it was the last exposure of the car in eleven parts, because in 1960 it disappeared mysteriously with the truck in which it was. " never again was re-examined; Little Bastard".

Among her other vehicles, James Dean had also many motor bikes.

Heritage

James Dean was one of the 5 actors to have been nominated in the category of the best actor for its first role, and was then the only one to have been nominated twice after her death.

Two films of 1955, Rebel Without because ( Fury of living ) and Blackboard Jungle ( Seed of violence ), the most are quoted to express the rebellion of the young teenagers of the Années 1950 and played a part with the Rock “roll, to become a phenomenon. From the exit of the Fury of living and the interpretation of James Dean, good number of teenagers of the whole world started to idealize James Dean and to at the time regard it as the perfect representation of the discomfort of youth. This extraordinary role has, undoubtedly, makes known the enormous talent of Dean, and for this day one has found good number of actors who can say that they were influenced by Dean. One of them is Elvis Presley, which affirmed even in one of its interviews that he would have hoped to have had a career similar to that of the young actor. Certain newspapers compared the young actor River Phoenix with James Dean because of her incredible talent but also because of its tragedy died in only 23 years.

Incontestably, the talent of James Dean preserves a durable influence on youth. Today still, of the teenagers recognize themselves in its characters of rebel. James Dean leaves an important, universal and timeless trace in the cinema world.

" The Legend of Jimmy" is a musical comedy of Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon inspired by the life of James Dean.

Sexuality

Various biographies of the actor affirm his homosexuality, others its bisexuality; but it is the second assumption which seems most plausible. Some even regard it as a gay icon. Indeed, in one of them, one learns that it lost its virginity with Pasteur James DeWeerd, and it is this same Pasteur who celebrated his burial. Various biographies of the actor say that it left every evening to New York and that, each evening, it had a different conquest, whether it is man or woman. However, he knew great love affairs with women: its very first was the dancer Liz Sheridan with whom it lived when it was with New York. Their relation will last a little more than one year. The latter will affirm later in her biography that James had a relation with the producer Rogers Brackett. It left then with Geraldine Page, his partner in Immoraliste , this relation lasted only 3 months because James Dean was to leave to make the turning of In the east of Eden ( East off Eden ).

Its greater relation was with the Italian actress Pier Angeli. This relation was sufficiently strong so that James asked it in marriage, but the mother of the actress refused. This refusal had as a consequence separation between James and Pier; a few days afterwards, one announces engagement of Pier Angeli to an unknown crooner, Vic Damone. A legend tells that the day of the marriage, the November 24th 1954, the actor waited in front of the church on its motor bike, by hoping that its promised comes to join it.

Let us not forget either its greater relation, that with William Bast, her friend and lover, with whom there remained age of 19 to 24 years, with phases in love and friendly. William Bast speaks about it extremely well in her book " My Life with James Dean".

It had finally a relation with the actress Maila Nurmi.

Its quotations

  • My mother died when I was nine years old… What did she want that I make? That I manage all alone.
  • The night, I left in hiding-place in my uncle, and I was going to cry over his tomb: " Mom, why me left ace you? Say, why you gave up me? I need you.
  • The sport makes beat the heart of all the young Americans, I believe that I will devote my life to art and the theater.
  • It is a dream to play in assembled Macbeth with UCLA. Especially, that nobody awakes me.
  • I am not a dredger nor young first romantic. They will never give me my chance.
  • According to me, the way of an actor is traced before even as it left the cradle.
  • I do not even want to be only the best. I want to become so tall that the others are not able to be reached. It is not to prove anything, it is to arrive where one must arrive when one devotes all his life and all his being to only one and even thing.
  • When I play of the bono, the whole world can go to be shown.
  • My goal in the existence, it is not to charm the company.
  • New York is a fertile and generous city, if you accept violence and the decline of it.
  • My neurosis is expressed through the dramatic art. Why the majority of the actors play do? To express their phantasms.
  • Nobody nothing made forever for me. I owe anything with nobody.
  • I do not stop saying to everyone to go to be made foutre, and it is not well. I did not succeed in rendering comprehensible to them that I worked my all alone role. The poor Julie Harris cannot any more what make with me. That it will be shown, it too! It does not need to help me.
  • It one was crowned challenge, I find, to succeed in making honestly pass the psychology of one character To the east of Eden which has same the character traits as mine.
  • When an actor plays a scene exactly like the realizer asks him, he does not play: he follows instructions. No matter who, if it is suited physically, can do that.
  • I am really sympathetic and nice. Ca turns always badly. I see a person with whom I would like to be friendly (everyone, in fact), and, suddenly, I think that it would be similar that front, because people do not foutent themselves badly of me. Then I balance a malicious trick, or I do not say anything the whole and I from go away. The unhappy one does not include/understand what occurs. It does not realize that I have just decided that I do not like it. What bell with people?
  • It was said to me that I played as Brando before even as I know who it was. The comparison does not obstruct me - I am not flattered either.
  • What counts for an artist, it is what it puts in his play, not publicity that one makes around him. People who do not know me me already catalogued: for them, I am funny of number.
  • The size does not exist in this world.
  • The only moment when I feel really myself, it is when I am on a circuit.
  • The only size for a man, it is immortality.
  • It is necessary to live quickly, die young person and make a beautiful corpse.

Memorial

In 1977, the memorial of James Dean was built in Cholame. It is composed of a stylized sculpture of concrete and stainless steel, made in Japan, ordered by the Seita Ohnishi, which chose itself the place of the accident to build it.

The dates and hours of the birth and died of James Dean are engraved on this sculpture with one of the preferred sentences of the actor, drawn from the Petit Prince: “Essence is invisible for the eyes”.

Catalog of films

Theater

Broadway

  • See the Jaguar, (1952)
  • the immoralist (1954) - based on the book of Andre Gide

Out-Broadway

  • The Metamorphosis (1952) - based on the news of Kafka
  • The Scarecrow (1954)
  • Women off Trachis (1954)

Television

  • Father Peyton' S Family Theater, " Hill Number One" (March 25th, 1951)
  • The Web, " Sleeping Dogs" (February 20th, 1952)
  • One Studio, " Ten Thousand Horses Singing" (March 3rd, 1952)
  • Video Lux Theater, " The Foggy, Foggy Dew" (March 17th, 1952)
  • Kraft Theater Television, " Prolog to Glory" (May 21st, 1952)
  • One Studio, " Abraham Lincoln" (May 26th, 1952)
  • Hallmark Hall off Famed, " Forgotten Children" (June 2nd, 1952)
  • The Kate Smith Show, " Hounds off Heaven" (January 15th, 1953)
  • Treasury Men In Action, " The Puts the Watchful Dog" off; (January 29th, 1953)
  • You Are There, " The Captures Jesse James" off; (February 8th, 1953)
  • Danger, " No Room" (April 14th, 1953)
  • Treasury Men In Action, " The Puts the Sawed-Off Shotgun" off; (April 16th, 1953)
  • off Bruise Tomorrow, " The Evil Within" (May 1st, 1953)
  • Campbell Soundstage, " Something For Year Empty Briefcase" (July 17th, 1953)
  • Studio One Summer Theater, " Sentence off Death" (August 17th, 1953)
  • Danger, " Death Is My Neighbor" (August 25th, 1953)
  • The Big Story, " Rex Newman, To defer for the Earth and News" (September 11th, 1953)
    • Bus
  • , " Glory In Flower" (October 4th, 1953)
  • Kraft Theater Television, " Keep Our Honor Bright" (October 14th, 1953)
  • Campbell Soundstage, " Life Sentence" (October 16th, 1953)
  • Kraft Theater Television, " With Length Time Till Dawn" (November 1953) * Armstrong Circle Theater, " The Bels off Cockaigne" (November 17th, 1953)
  • Robert Montgomery Present the Johnson' S Wax Program, " Harvest" (November 23rd, 1953)
  • Danger, " The Little Women" (March 30th, 1954)
  • Philco TV Playhouse, " Run Like has Thief" (September 5th, 1954)
  • Danger, " Padlocks" (November 9th, 1954)
  • General Electric Theater, " I' m has Fool" (November 14th, 1954)
  • General Electric Theater, " The Dark, Dark Hour" (December 12th, 1954)
  • U.S. Steel Hour, " The Thief" (January 4th, 1955)
  • Video Lux Theater, " The Life off Emile Zola" (March 10th, 1955)
  • Schlitz Playhouse off Stars, " The Unlighted Road" (May 6th, 1955)

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