Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#42). [1995]

. Ranked #33 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

The famous Failure Analysis Associates, from Menlo Park, California, re-constructed and re-created all details of the accident at the same approximate time on September 30th and have concluded that James Dean was travelling 55 to 56 m.p.h. when the fateful accident occurred, thereby proving he had not been speeding, as rumor had it.

Most of his so-called affairs with various starlets were made up by the Warner Brothers PR. He did have love affairs with Pier Angeli and Liz Sheridan
Interred at Park Cemetery, Fairmount, Indiana, USA.

Reportedly, Dean was very much in love with Pier Angeli and they planned to marry, but her mother blocked the union because Dean wasn't Catholic and she helped arrange Pier's marriage to Vic Damone. Before she committed suicide, Pier wrote that Dean was the only man she had ever really loved.

Briefly studied dance with Katherine Dunham.

Won the Bloom Award as "Best Newcomer" for early Broadway work in "The Immoralist".

He was issued a speeding ticket only two hours and fifteen minutes before his fatal accident.

The Eagles penned a lyric about him that went: "Too fast to live, too young to die."

Fixed Bayonets (1951)
Sailor Beware (1952)
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Trouble Along the Way (1953)
East of Eden (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Giant (1956)


James Dean On Broadway

See the Jaguar, (1952)
The Immoralist (1954) - based on the book by Andre Gide

Off-Broadway
The Metamorphosis (1952) - based on the novella by Franz Kafka
The Scarecrow (1954)
Women of Trachis (1954) - translation by Ezra Pound

Mr James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton and Mildred Dean. His father, a dental technician, moved the family to Los Angeles when Jimmy was just five. He returned to the Midwest after his mother passed away and was raised by his aunt and uncle on their Indiana farm. After graduating from high school, he returned to California where he attended Santa Monica Junior College and UCLA. James Dean began acting with James Whitmore's acting workshop and appeared in occasional television commercials, and played several roles in films and on stage. In the winter of 1951, he took Whitmore's advice and moved to New York to pursue a serious acting career. He appeared in seven television shows, in addition to earning his living as a busboy in the theater district, before he won a small part in a Broadway play entitled See the Jaguar.