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Early life and education. Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, [4] the only child of Mildred Marie Wilson and Winton Dean. He claimed that his mother was partly Native American and that his father belonged to a "line of original settlers that could be traced back to the Mayflower ". [5] .
In her essay, “James Dean–The Boy I Loved,” Dean’s paternal grandmother, Emma Woolen Dean, offers a heartwarming view of her grandson. Jimmy was born in Indiana, being raised in Fairmount and Marion for most of his childhood, save for a detour to Santa Monica.
Sep 7, 2021 · Dean fell in love with Italian actor Pier Angeli, whom he met while visiting Paul Newman on a movie set. Reportedly, Angeli's mother did not want the two to marry because Dean was not Catholic, and the actor married Vic Damone. Many of Dean's publicized love affairs were inventions of Warner Bros.
Sep 30, 2015 · Sixty years ago today, a wildly gifted young actor was killed. And a one-dimensional legend was born. The brooding rebel in the leather jacket. Which summed up about one half of one percent of who James Dean was either as an actor or a person. Those who knew him, loved him and worked with him…
Aug 24, 2021 · Stacker has compiled 25 facts about the life of James Dean that you may not know, drawing from media accounts, movie archives, historical accounts, and fan websites.
Sep 30, 2020 · True to his “live fast, die young” philosophy, James Dean, the archetypal angry Rebel Without A Cause, died 65 years ago today, at the wheel of a shiny new Porsche on his way to a race meeting in California.
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When Warner and Dean had their talks – with Warner playing a page from Mayer’s playbook, he told Dean he thought of him as a son – even smoked imported Cuban cigars with him. He told him that he had a young star’s mother complaining that he was molesting her daughter.
