James Dean’s private personality was much different from the on-screen Dean. He was very methodical in his approach to reaching goals. In high school he’d done well in debate. He’d also won the Indiana section of a National Thespian Society contest, and went on to finish sixth nationally. He approached racing in the same calculating way. Within 10 days, he put 1000 miles on his Speedster, much of it on Mulholland Drive, where difficult curves on the coastal range crest were a breeding ground for would-be racers and some real ones as well.(x)
12/06/13 @ 06:15pm
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“Jim had a year away from Warner Brothers. We had planned to use that time to get our company started. We would have done both feature pictures and a television series, which would have allowed Jim to break in as a director. I think he would have been a great director.”
— Nicholas Ray
“I liken it to a kind of star or comet that fell through the sky and everybody still talks about it. They say, ‘Ah, remember the night when you saw that shooting star?’ -Julie Harris
10/06/13 @ 04:02pm
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James Dean with his high school basketball team
In his Porsche Speedster, 1954
“I’m sentimental too, Bick.”
04/06/13 @ 10:04pm
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James Dean photographed by Sanford Roth,1955.
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James Dean chatting with the Winslows back home in Indiana.
03/06/13 @ 01:37pm
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“I get the feeling [when he walks into a room] that that must have been how people felt when James Dean walked into a room. Just like, ‘Whoa, what just walked in?’ There’s something really special here. It’s that striking.” -Evan Rachel Wood about Ryan Gosling
James Dean & Milton Berle
James Dean photographed by Roy Schatt, 1954.
Just saw JamesDeanDaily was updated on this and I had to check it out.
THIS is the type of movie that should be done on James Dean. Sounds great! “Control” was a great film and tastefully done so I am very excited about this one.
