No one has ever been as cool as James Dean. The young actor epitomized a sense of restlessness, rebellion, and alienation that has never been replicated. Dean made his mark in a remarkably short ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
The following is an excerpt from Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean by Jason Colavito and available now from Applause Books ...
Robert Pattinson has been cast as photographer Dennis Stock, AKA close friend of James Dean, in a biopic about the legendary actor's relationship with the press and the run up to the 1955 film, East ...
In a letter dated August 12, 1954, agent Jane Deacy sought to advise her client James Dean about his plans to marry his girlfriend, Pier Angeli. “I don’t know what to tell you,” Jane wrote. “I found ...
At the time of his sudden death on September 30, 1955, at age 24, James Dean had starred in only one motion picture released in theaters. He would become a cultural icon to generations and a ...
It's been over 70 years since James Dean’s untimely death, but the other man involved in the crash, Donald Turnupseed, spent most of his life avoiding speaking about the accident. On Sept. 30, 1955, ...
Before shooting began on the movie “East of Eden,” director Elia Kazan reportedly sent James Dean off to Palm Springs to gain some weight and get some sun so that he looked like a “real” farm boy. The ...
According to a recently published biography, James Dean confided in close friend and co-star Elizabeth Taylor that he was sexually abused at the hands of his childhood priest. The late “Rebel Without ...