That's why they are called stars. Stars are ever shining when visible and you can't reach them, and the only way to be unreachable is to passed away, the only way to be ever shining is not to fade or seen old.
It really is sad. There was some sort of curse on that car I’ve heard on that car. Maybe they’ll tell it in this video. Oh ok it was a curse. It was a feeling someone had. That’s terrible! Others were injured with pieces of the car.
Fair enough storytelling, but why the use of the word 'shocking' to advertise this oitherwise cool and dispassionate telling of the Dean story. His desire to marry was not shocking, it may have been surprising and touching, but it's just trashy, scandal mag talk to call it shocking. Shame on you
My mum is 85 she was a big fan of James Dean in her youth, she worked as a cinema usherette and was given all the big film posters from the cinema advertising. Unfortunately they were long lost, just think how much these originals would be worth now
They would not be worth anything. Mass produced and sent out to cinemas every where. Would have been great to have a few anyway. There is something about those old movies that touch your memory. You can remember a certain night or just a feeling. Maybe because it's the night you first saw the film. Maybe it was the night you heard about that star leaving to go to the stars. Magic
Great video on James Dean. I still have the Lee Rider 101 jeans that I had shipped over from the US in 1958, identical to the ones he wore in Rebel and Giant.(They do not fit any more!) The red jacket that I bought in 1956 is long gone. Happy, innocent days. Movies ain't the same any more.
I'm not Scottish, but from the childhood I loved Scotland and the Scots (finally visited your beautiful country in 2019.) and so - yes! It was wonderful to hear the unique Scottish accent. Alba gu bràth!
I can see the Aquarius in him thru and through. James poured his beautiful ❤ and soul in all he could. He was real AF, tortured, passionate yet a genius whom made art from his broken soul
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris. “I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a
Yes...I recommend visiting Fairmount Indiana. I stayed at a bed and breakfast where he mowed the lawn as a child. Right across the field is his grave. The museum is amazing for a true fan. The letters from Pier....
What a beautiful video. You’re an excellent narrator, and you moved me to tears. James’ beautiful, gentle soul is one of those who left the planet much too soon. RIP James Dean.
❤ Thankyou so much for this beautifully written video . Incredibly sad yet he experienced so very much in his short 24 yrs, more than most will ever experience in an entire lifetime. He was special and with greatness comes extreme low moments and struggle. It was his destiny but the fact we still talk of him is perhaps a reflection that his specialness and soul live on.❤
It's hard to understand 70 years later how dangerous these early cars were. No Seat-belts, no headrest to prevent a neck fracture and of course no airbags.
Quite well done. Thank you. James Dean would have been uterly destroyed by Hollywood had he survived. His Legacy, unfortunately, was ensured by his early death. So very tragic.
Yes...I recommend visiting Fairmount Indiana. I stayed at a bed and breakfast where he mowed the lawn as a child. Right across the field is his grave. The museum is amazing for a true fan. The letters from Pier....
To bad so many of these actors lives were so messed up. We as a fan get a false impression of them and then find out all the misery they had in their lives. In Deans case i know his mother died when he was young and if he was molested as a boy that would really mess up his head. Poor guy, its sad.
I was born the year he died. Don't think I ever saw any of his movies, but I still heard about him and saw his photos... I remember referring to him (as a teen) in discussion with my parents, who were disapproving. They probably didn't like Marlon either. Both too bloody sexy, as were Marilyn and Elizabeth T. Oh, and mum didn't like Natalie Woods either (I loved her) or Debbie Reynolds (any psychologists out there?.)
Indeed, Dean studied at Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. This was early in his career. But his classes were in a large group setting. Not to his liking. So, Dean sought one-on-one sessions with Mira Rostova. But Mira was fully occupied with Montgomery Clift. However, Mira saw something in Dean and asked her protégée/assistant, William Hickey to coach Dean. (see LA Times July 2, 1997 -- ''Among Hickey’s students were Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Sandy Dennis, the late James Dean and, briefly, [Jack] Nicholson.'') Hickey said that Montgomery Clift struggled with the difficult Stanislavsky Method concepts... struggled for years. But that, ''Dean mastered those same difficult Method concepts almost instantly, even the most complex elements''
Affair with James Dean Angeli also had a passionate romantic relationship with James Dean. They met while she was shooting The Silver Chalice (1954)[7] and he was shooting East of Eden (1955), on an adjoining Warner lot. Elia Kazan, the director of East of Eden (1955), remembered hearing Dean and Angeli loudly having sex in Dean's dressing room.[8][1] Much against her will, she was forced to break it off, mainly because her mother was not happy with their relationship because Dean was not Catholic.[1][9] There were rumors that she and Dean secretly saw each other up until his death; Joe Hyams, in his 1992 biography of Dean, James Dean: Little Boy Lost, claims that he visited Dean just as Angeli, then married to Damone, was leaving his home. An Order for the Solemnization of Marriage pamphlet with the name "Pier" lightly penciled in every place the bride's name is left blank was found amongst Dean's personal effects after his death.[10] She would later say that he was the love of her life: "He is the only man I ever loved deeply as a woman should love a man."[9] Friends of Angeli have said she never fully recovered from his death and that she had nightmares about him up until her own death.[1] Pier Overdosed at age 39. :(
I really enjoyed you narration of James Dean. as you know there are so many biography's out there, this is defiantly one of the most accurate & the best. Thank you. Well done!
Naw... I have read every book on James Dean. There was never a romance of Monroe and James. She was not his type. Taylor was his best friend. Pier was the one he loved. I believe he had bipolar as well. I recommend visiting Fairmount Indiana. I stayed at a bed and breakfast where he mowed the lawn as a child. Right across the field is his grave. The museum is amazing for a true fan. The letters from Pier....
Beautiful video well documented. I love your voice and accent as the light music. My father loved James Dean as an actor so i saw almost all his movies with him when i was a child and teenager. We went to old theaters in Paris because it was in the 80th. I love that actor too. His intensity always talked to me as my father because of our tendency to feel overwhelming emotions as him. They are not many actors who wears their emotions on their face like him. Now, Tom Hiddleston is for me the actor who has the same ability to express so much with his face.
I wasn’t into James Dean, as I was far to young,but this was very interesting and the narrator is so easy to understand,and he also does it at a pace so we catch every word,well done.
Really good video on James Dean, actually one of the best ones I seen. There was a lot of info in the video that I had never hered before and pics and film that I have never seen. It was a treat for me to see it. Job well done.
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris. “I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a
I was in high school when East of Eden came out and when I saw James Dean I fell in love. I bet I have seen E of E at least 100 times and expect to watch it a few more times before die. He was one of a kind.
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@@ValTwineDeaner and not just about him, but l believe it's ridiculous to say that Paul Newman had sex with him. And l find it difficult to think that James Dean was bisexual, and scary that people consider him gay, when he loved that girl and had a healthy sex life with her. He wanted to marry her, because he loved her, not for covering up his homosexuality. What people put on actors is horrible, they make them anything they like, for themselves.
I'm truly sick and tired of people saying that he was gay! They never even knew him! His closest girl friends have said he wasn't gay! They act like it's OK to say that about someone and it's not okay! If someone said that about me and I was famous I would sue them!
I feel these stories help to illustrate the real issues and problems that "famous" people have and bring them down from their pedestal, and in turn allow the general public to appreciate the dramas and issues that everyone has.
Mr Dean wasn't "cursed"... but he was foolish and reckless. At that last encounter, he presumed the other driver would stop. Mr Dean wasn't driving defensively.
@@americanwoman445 You bet, especially if you ride motorcycles. A couple of things to mention, I think he said "that guy's gotta see us" Well, if you have seen a Porsche Spyder for real it's got a very low profile, probably about thigh height (not including windshield) it was painted silver, now most cars of the time were much taller. Driving a silver sports car with low profile, the heat haze shimmering,, that car was damn near invisible, no-one could've seen it. heard it, maybe,.seen it, no way.
@@jeanettecook1088 thank you for your insight. I personally couldn't be so bold to make a comment like that, 1. from the comfort of being alive myself and 2. without him being able to defend himself from being called foolish since he unfortunately is not alive and able to do so.
Elizabeth gave an interview a few years prior to her death saying she & “Jimmy” became very close when they would talk late into the night comforting each other and that it was during one of those moments that he confessed he could never be happy because he was a homosexual. (Not a rumor, as I watched it myself.) She said she would hold him while he cried, but oddly in the morning when they were back on the set, he’d completely ignore her as if nothing had occurred only hours earlier. She said “he was just so sad. So incredibly sad.”
She’s a liar. According to her, she was the only intimate friend of all of the biggest Hollywood actors/idols of the day. Every one of them confided exclusively in her. Total BS! She was self aggrandizing, narcissistic, man hungry harlot who always craved praise, adoration and being the center of attention!
James Dean was a great actor. Too bad his young life was cut so tragically short. He definitely lived on the fast, wild side. His personal life was his business. It is widely known that he was bisexual. Big deal. What went on in his bedroom did not affect his talented acting ability. May he rest in peace.
I live near that intersection. Always careful the time of day I come and go. Heading west sunset time is the worst. We still have lots of major accidents there. It is finally being worked on. You can thank Jerry brown and Newsom for that. We call it blood alley. So many lives. Great sadness ❤
@@shadowlouise you have to consider the time of day and it was a silver car. Potentially impossible to see. Silver cars get into more accidents than any other color that I'm aware of because they disappear on the roadway. it was a tragic accident that ruined a lot of lives. Best it was broken up and sold or destroyed.
He did NOT date Marilyn Monroe at all. Elizabeth Taylor said just before her death, that Jimmy had confided in her that he'd been molested as a child, when he'd gone to live with his aunt and uncle. He wasn't gay at all, but even if he was, I'd still love him. I'm 64 and have loved him since 1975 when I was 15. Lots of people went out of their way to get Pier and Jimmy to see each other. Her mum didn't like Jimmy. I love the book written by Dizzy Sheridan, "Dizzy and Jimmy". He definitely didn't date Marilyn, that all made up bs. She was 5 years older than Jimmy - not that that matters. They were definitely at some parties the same time. Eartha Kitt loved Jimmy as a sister. He sometimes match-made couples, and at the time she was dating the writer of "Rebel...". I've been to New York to see his old haunts, and Hollywood, and I went to the James Dean Festival in Fairmount, Indiana in 2016 - a lifelong ambition. I live in the UK and am English. When I die, I want half my ashes to be strewn over Jimmy's grave. I hope and pray that I get to meet him on the other side. He wasn't a tortured soul, he had a great sense of humour and like me, loved playing pranks on people!!! May he rip, I will never stop loving him.
I used to travel that junction every weekend each way for years... It's a rough one and every change they've made to make it safer hasn't really helped much. That's just something about that place that at certain times of day where it's blind from either direction. They've moved it a bit but that whole area is just rough.
You neglected to mention that he didn’t die straight away he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital The ambulance was also in an accident and Dean’s broken neck moved and killed him then And it’s called a private life for a reason, not a public life. Everyone has a private life and whatever they do in their private life is upto them
sophiegeorge, I don't recall hearing that before, but there was a documentary made claiming that had the paramedics used a neck brace, Dean might have survived. As for "private life," it's a nice thought, but you know this world ain't like that. Thanks for your post
Lots of BS here about the accident here on the Central Coast. James Dean was killed instantly. His very low profile Porsche slid underneath the rear end of a truck that was traveling East making a left turn in front of his Porsche traveling West in the late after noon sunlight. I grew up with a retired CHP chief retired from this area who had photographs of the accident. Black and white accident Pictures never before published in any way or form. In 1974, Kathy G. my high school girl friend showed me her Father's pictures. The picture included a picture Of Deans head with his Wayfarers sunglasses on, resting on the front left corner wheel cover. There wasn't a single mark on his perfect young face. The Porsche was sliced clean in half at wheel level. There was no passenger in his car. The only other person involved was the driver of the truck unharmed. The lies here are stupendous and absolutely false.
@@lorenzo6mm I appreciate your sharing more information, but surely you realize your comment has no more or less validity than any other. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of James Dean. Maybe there will be new documentaries and articles about the life and death of this icon. I would like to see all the variations concerning his death, and the Curse of the Spyder, examined.
He certainly was handsome. As with everything in the film industry at that time, 90% of actors, actresses, producers, directors, and anyone else involved, had a secret of some kind. If they hadn’t, their truths would deprived them of their careers. And so it continues today, and always will. It’s the nature of the industry.
Sounds to me he was bisexual and not just gay. They claim that car is haunted. Everyone who has had it or even parts of the care brought bad luck to anyone owning it.
@juliacaesarscalcione I don't think so either. He may have involved himself in some things to further his career. But I think that he truly loved Pier Angeli. A lot of hearsay and speculation go on with Dean. The fact that they found that marriage note he made on Angeli is at least something tangible. Also, Angeli reportedly said on her deathbed that the only man that she ever really loved was James Dean.
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris. “I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a
Brad Pitts marriages will go down in history huh… Glad I found you today. I subscribed. 😁This was good. I didn’t know he had a passenger who survived. Brando was so handsome when he was young
I was a teen when he died but still remember him,his name got so great esp aftet his accident, even with only 3 movies his name withstood the test of time...
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing🤗. The iconic ( Eagles) band. Wrote/recorded/performed a song about his life😉
Pier was the one woman who he was madly in love with. ❤❤❤ He would have married her and stayed with her for life. Her mother heard gay rumors. 😮😮😮😮She ran Piers life. Pier was forced to marry a man who, according to Debbie Reynolds, beat her!!!!! 😡 Pier was controlled worse than a slave by her mother and husband. She was weak. This was horrible and illegal. 😢😢😢😢😢 Pier was young, very beautiful, and talented. 😊
Affair with James Dean Angeli also had a passionate romantic relationship with James Dean. They met while she was shooting The Silver Chalice (1954)[7] and he was shooting East of Eden (1955), on an adjoining Warner lot. Elia Kazan, the director of East of Eden (1955), remembered hearing Dean and Angeli loudly having sex in Dean's dressing room.[8][1] Much against her will, she was forced to break it off, mainly because her mother was not happy with their relationship because Dean was not Catholic.[1][9] There were rumors that she and Dean secretly saw each other up until his death; Joe Hyams, in his 1992 biography of Dean, James Dean: Little Boy Lost, claims that he visited Dean just as Angeli, then married to Damone, was leaving his home. An Order for the Solemnization of Marriage pamphlet with the name "Pier" lightly penciled in every place the bride's name is left blank was found amongst Dean's personal effects after his death.[10] She would later say that he was the love of her life: "He is the only man I ever loved deeply as a woman should love a man."[9] Friends of Angeli have said she never fully recovered from his death and that she had nightmares about him up until her own death.[1] She died at 39 od a drug overdose.
Equally cursed and blessed, he who walked amongst mere mortals spellbound by his heavenly sight for a fleeting moment in time, like the stuff of real legends he departed suddenly while at his most beautiful and accomplished, there is simply no other way to remember the silver Icarus who fell to earth.
Maybe dying young was good for him, as it was for Marilyn Monroe. Both people live in with youth and charisma still fresh to those who see and remember then. We never saw them in old age, and more trying times, though, they had some troubling times. They left more of a mark by not being here, then if they had lived till an old age. Just my thoughts.
I do agree with you. I do believe if Marlon Brando had died young too, he could have been remembered as one of the most exotically handsome actor, without having ever to see him gotten old & fat over the years later.
@@zahemi914I am glad Brando lived to be old. I thought he was wonderful in The Godfather & I also liked him in Don Juan DeMarco with Johnny Depp. He was an amazingly talented actor
As far as I remember, he was head over heels in love with Pier Angeli, but her parents were totally against their relationship and pushed her into a relationship with an Italian-American singer who she eventually married.
I’d like to know if there was actually any proof other than idle gossip that James Dean was gay or bi, every time he fell in love it was a woman. I was just wondering.
I think his brooding good looks was his major card. He was a young actor, still 'practicing' in the few films he made. I found his acting over done sometimes and other times as if he was a cliche, trying to be another....'brooding actor', Marlon Brando.
@@girlofthewest964 I found his 'acting' so distracting in the films that I just would overlook the scenes and concentrate on the rest. I really think he became such a 'legend' (in some people's minds) is because of a) the nature of the accident and (b) that he died so young.
@@girlofthewest964I absolutely agree. so glad I am not the only one here regarding the myth of J. Dean. He was a young actor just learning his trade with the few movies he made. His 'myth' was dying so tragically so young. Still, not the superstar time has made him out to be.
Very well designed video. U have some background in cinematography. A sad and beautiful look at James Dean's life. I believe he would of liked your creation!!!💞💞🙃💞💞
It's sad he died so young, the few films he was in left a lasting impression few actors can claim that had made a lot of films and a longer life.
That's why they are called stars. Stars are ever shining when visible and you can't reach them, and the only way to be unreachable is to passed away, the only way to be ever shining is not to fade or seen old.
His death broke my 13 year old heart!😢
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Very good production❤
It really is sad. There was some sort of curse on that car I’ve heard on that car. Maybe they’ll tell it in this video. Oh ok it was a curse. It was a feeling someone had. That’s terrible! Others were injured with pieces of the car.
No stupid robotic voice or overpowering loud music. Well done. Have an award
❤👌
I don't know about the music. It bugs me.
The best, a real storyteller 😀
Fair enough storytelling, but why the use of the word 'shocking' to advertise this oitherwise cool and dispassionate telling of the Dean story. His desire to marry was not shocking, it may have been surprising and touching, but it's just trashy, scandal mag talk to call it shocking. Shame on you
I hate robotic A.I. voice.
My mum is 85 she was a big fan of James Dean in her youth, she worked as a cinema usherette and was given all the big film posters from the cinema advertising. Unfortunately they were long lost, just think how much these originals would be worth now
I had a customer, long retired lawyer. He had an original marquee ’REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE’ given to him by a client.
OMG! Cant u try/tink wer she normally kept her special tings perhaps? Pity, wat a waste. Dey r d very sentimantle values u know!
I was a little bit young, however, I remember the more senior girls in school were bereft.. weeping and wailing.
They would not be worth anything. Mass produced and sent out to cinemas every where. Would have been great to have a few anyway. There is something about those old movies that touch your memory. You can remember a certain night or just a feeling. Maybe because it's the night you first saw the film. Maybe it was the night you heard about that star leaving to go to the stars. Magic
@@terriegilley6475 The originals would be worth a lot, the reprinted ones wouldn’t
Great video on James Dean. I still have the Lee Rider 101 jeans that I had shipped over from the US in 1958, identical to the ones he wore in Rebel and Giant.(They do not fit any more!) The red jacket that I bought in 1956 is long gone. Happy, innocent days. Movies ain't the same any more.
That's awesome, he made a lot of cool TV appearances at the time. Would have been interesting to see what he would have done had he lived.
I'm sure you know those jeans have a value.
So nice to watch a video with an actual human voice! Well done
I lived in Aberdeen Scotland for 4 years, l love the Scottish accent
Yes! I do not even watch videos that don't use human narration.
@@cherylcampbell9369 Me, too
James Dean was a unique personality and a great actor. He had died much too young, but will always be remembered.
As a Scottish girl, lovely to hear a fellow Scot narrator 🏴
Listen to “well, I never” great tales and Glasgow lad.
I'm not Scottish, but from the childhood I loved Scotland and the Scots (finally visited your beautiful country in 2019.) and so - yes! It was wonderful to hear the unique Scottish accent. Alba gu bràth!
I absolutely love all UK 🇬🇧 accent so crisp, clear, and articulate.😊
😉 Lovely Scottish accent indeed.
Yes lovely. He sounds like the gentleman on the Midas Touch Network.
May he never be forgotten. Proud to share birthday with him February 8 .
Absolutely! We aquarians are unusual people ✌️
I can see the Aquarius in him thru and through. James poured his beautiful ❤ and soul in all he could. He was real AF, tortured, passionate yet a genius whom made art from his broken soul
This was absolutely beautifully made. BEST NARRATOR EVER.
As a Scottish girl, it is lovely to hear a fellow Scot narrator 🏴
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Totally agree.
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I love listening to his accent and soothing voice. ❤😊
ewwwwww
all three of them, Mineo, Natalie wood, and James Dean, died violently and much too soon...
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris.
“I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a
True Dat!!!
@FreshandNew-w6uit a shame her so called husband got by with her murder. But I feel he did just that. I’ve always felt like it.
He was such a handsome, tortured soul. Him being in Hollywood didn’t help. Poor guy.May he Forever Rest In Heaven..💐😭
Yes...I recommend visiting Fairmount Indiana. I stayed at a bed and breakfast where he mowed the lawn as a child. Right across the field is his grave. The museum is amazing for a true fan. The letters from Pier....
What a beautiful video. You’re an excellent narrator, and you moved me to tears. James’ beautiful, gentle soul is one of those who left the planet much too soon. RIP James Dean.
THANK YOU
Beautifully narrated
What a sad life
❤ Thankyou so much for this beautifully written video . Incredibly sad yet he experienced so very much in his short 24 yrs, more than most will ever experience in an entire lifetime. He was special and with greatness comes extreme low moments and struggle. It was his destiny but the fact we still talk of him is perhaps a reflection that his specialness and soul live on.❤
Thank you. You did a wonderful job on this. Love your narration, too.
The best British accent ever. Educated, soothing and engaging.
Thank you. ❤
It's hard to understand 70 years later how dangerous these early cars were. No Seat-belts, no headrest to prevent a neck fracture and of course no airbags.
Best narrator, editing & background music. Keep creating these - I watch everyone.
This video is put together very well. Excellent flow and narrative about this remarkable actor.
Factinate: Beautifully & Expertly done. Thank you.
James Dean in “Giant” was absolutely fabulous. I count it one of the great American films. I remember his death, but this saddened me again.
Quite well done. Thank you. James Dean would have been uterly destroyed by Hollywood had he survived. His Legacy, unfortunately, was ensured by his early death. So very tragic.
I always loved James Dean and still do. ❤ I think in the roles he played were actually him just being himself. A truly tortured soul....
Yes...I recommend visiting Fairmount Indiana. I stayed at a bed and breakfast where he mowed the lawn as a child. Right across the field is his grave. The museum is amazing for a true fan. The letters from Pier....
You sound like a "QUEEN"😮
Amazingly enough, Lee Strasburg was also Marilyn Monroe's tutor. Seven years later, after Dean, she was dead.
To bad so many of these actors lives were so messed up. We as a fan get a false impression of them and then find out all the misery they had in their lives. In Deans case i know his mother died when he was young and if he was molested as a boy that would really mess up his head. Poor guy, its sad.
I had just turned four when James Dean was killed, but I remember my two older teenage sisters crying for days afterwards.
I was born the year he died. Don't think I ever saw any of his movies, but I still heard about him and saw his photos... I remember referring to him (as a teen) in discussion with my parents, who were disapproving. They probably didn't like Marlon either. Both too bloody sexy, as were Marilyn and Elizabeth T. Oh, and mum didn't like Natalie Woods either (I loved her) or Debbie Reynolds (any psychologists out there?.)
@@chris-in-oceania For real!!! Debbie Reynolds? Who could NOT like Debbie? Too talented? Too pretty?
@@chris-in-oceania Re: Debbie Reynolds - as Mr. Grant told Mary Richards on MTM Show “You’ve got spunk . . . I hate spunk.”! 😂❤
What matters the most about Dean is his astound beauty. He was perfect in his manner😊❤
Beautifully narrated. Loved the accent and the way this man documented James Dean's tragic ending.
Indeed, Dean studied at Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg. This was early in his career. But his classes were in a large group setting. Not to his liking. So, Dean sought one-on-one sessions with Mira Rostova. But Mira was fully occupied with Montgomery Clift. However, Mira saw something in Dean and asked her protégée/assistant, William Hickey to coach Dean. (see LA Times July 2, 1997 -- ''Among Hickey’s students were Barbra Streisand, Steve McQueen, Sandy Dennis, the late James Dean and, briefly, [Jack] Nicholson.'') Hickey said that Montgomery Clift struggled with the difficult Stanislavsky Method concepts... struggled for years. But that, ''Dean mastered those same difficult Method concepts almost instantly, even the most complex elements''
Thank you
You are welcome, of course. Wondering if you had a primary interest William Hickey, James Dean, Mira Rostova, or all of the above.
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Love the narrator he's definitely Scottish learned alot from this here's to the memory of James Dean rip wherever you are!!!!
Very well done documentary! I've heard the rumors but didn't know all the things covered here about him.
Agreed
A brilliant actor, handsome outstanding in every way James Dean an icon for sure. 24 how horrific to die so so young. RIP Jimmy. Love you.❤️
Affair with James Dean
Angeli also had a passionate romantic relationship with James Dean. They met while she was shooting The Silver Chalice (1954)[7] and he was shooting East of Eden (1955), on an adjoining Warner lot.
Elia Kazan, the director of East of Eden (1955), remembered hearing Dean and Angeli loudly having sex in Dean's dressing room.[8][1]
Much against her will, she was forced to break it off, mainly because her mother was not happy with their relationship because Dean was not Catholic.[1][9] There were rumors that she and Dean secretly saw each other up until his death; Joe Hyams, in his 1992 biography of Dean, James Dean: Little Boy Lost, claims that he visited Dean just as Angeli, then married to Damone, was leaving his home. An Order for the Solemnization of Marriage pamphlet with the name "Pier" lightly penciled in every place the bride's name is left blank was found amongst Dean's personal effects after his death.[10] She would later say that he was the love of her life: "He is the only man I ever loved deeply as a woman should love a man."[9] Friends of Angeli have said she never fully recovered from his death and that she had nightmares about him up until her own death.[1]
Pier Overdosed at age 39. :(
I really enjoyed you narration of James Dean. as you know there are so many biography's out there, this is defiantly one of the most accurate & the best. Thank you. Well done!
Naw...
I have read every book on James Dean. There was never a romance of Monroe and James. She was not his type. Taylor was his best friend. Pier was the one he loved.
I believe he had bipolar as well.
I recommend visiting Fairmount Indiana. I stayed at a bed and breakfast where he mowed the lawn as a child. Right across the field is his grave. The museum is amazing for a true fan. The letters from Pier....
Beautiful video well documented. I love your voice and accent as the light music. My father loved James Dean as an actor so i saw almost all his movies with him when i was a child and teenager. We went to old theaters in Paris because it was in the 80th. I love that actor too. His intensity always talked to me as my father because of our tendency to feel overwhelming emotions as him. They are not many actors who wears their emotions on their face like him. Now, Tom Hiddleston is for me the actor who has the same ability to express so much with his face.
I wasn’t into James Dean, as I was far to young,but this was very interesting and the narrator is so easy to understand,and he also does it at a pace so we catch every word,well done.
THANK YOU. FASCINATING. POWERFUL STORY OF JAMES DEAN, AN ICONIC SHOWBIZ PERSONALITY.
Tht was a WONDERFULLY done piece. Thank you for NOT mkn this jus another gossipy tell-all. It was very classy. Kudos!
Really good video on James Dean, actually one of the best ones I seen. There was a lot of info in the video that I had never hered before and pics and film that I have never seen. It was a treat for me to see it. Job well done.
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris.
“I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a
Fabulous video, and your incredible voice makes it that much better!!😊 Thank you❤
Brilliant 🤩 thank you. Totally loved James Dean and all the actors mentioned. All my era x
I was 12 when James died and it broke my heart.
I was in high school when East of Eden came out and when I saw James Dean I fell in love. I bet I have seen E of E at least 100 times and expect to watch it a few more times before die. He was one of a kind.
VERY WELL DONE VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ you deserve an award!!!
Every element is PROFESSIONAL!!!!! Thank you for producing it and posting it!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤
He is such a star ..love him
I’m not particularly interested in this particular person, but I watched because I enjoy this particular narrator. 👍👏
Particular 😂🤣
What made him special was his acting, which was ahead of its time, not his real or imagined sex life.
How true
Exactly. People come out with the most ridiculous statements about Jimmy. He's not here to defend himself.
A “Method Actor” I believe Marlon Brando, Anne Bancroft, Al Pacino
@@ValTwineDeaner and not just about him, but l believe it's ridiculous to say that Paul Newman had sex with him. And l find it difficult to think that James Dean was bisexual, and scary that people consider him gay, when he loved that girl and had a healthy sex life with her. He wanted to marry her, because he loved her, not for covering up his homosexuality. What people put on actors is horrible, they make them anything they like, for themselves.
I'm truly sick and tired of people saying that he was gay! They never even knew him! His closest girl friends have said he wasn't gay! They act like it's OK to say that about someone and it's not okay! If someone said that about me and I was famous I would sue them!
I feel these stories help to illustrate the real issues and problems that "famous" people have and bring them down from their pedestal, and in turn allow the general public to appreciate the dramas and issues that everyone has.
James Dean was oooh sooo perfectly made 🤗 that even his name is fit just perfect 4 him👌😍
Mr Dean wasn't "cursed"... but he was foolish and reckless. At that last encounter, he presumed the other driver would stop. Mr Dean wasn't driving defensively.
Exactly...I was taught to be a defensive driver.
@@americanwoman445 You bet, especially if you ride motorcycles.
A couple of things to mention, I think he said "that guy's gotta see us" Well, if you have seen a Porsche Spyder for real it's got a very low profile, probably about thigh height (not including windshield) it was painted silver, now most cars of the time were much taller. Driving a silver sports car with low profile, the heat haze shimmering,, that car was damn near invisible, no-one could've seen it. heard it, maybe,.seen it, no way.
Agreed!
@@jeanettecook1088 thank you for your insight. I personally couldn't be so bold to make a comment like that, 1. from the comfort of being alive myself and 2. without him being able to defend himself from being called foolish since he unfortunately is not alive and able to do so.
East of Eden was a work of Art with Dean in it.
James Dean did bring an interest but after I saw 'Giant', then came 'Rebel' now this story told here, thank you for your details.
Hey Scottish 🏴 Narrator, Awesome job! Luv from UK!💖💖🦋
I think the narrator is Neil Oliver
"Brooding splendor...". Never could buy into the James Dean hype. I do feel sorry for him, though. Obviously, a deeply troubled young man.
Elizabeth gave an interview a few years prior to her death saying she & “Jimmy” became very close when they would talk late into the night comforting each other and that it was during one of those moments that he confessed he could never be happy because he was a homosexual. (Not a rumor, as I watched it myself.) She said she would hold him while he cried, but oddly in the morning when they were back on the set, he’d completely ignore her as if nothing had occurred only hours earlier. She said “he was just so sad. So incredibly sad.”
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Hollywood forces themselves sexually on boys he may no😮t of had a say
We'll never know but look at Harvey weinstein horrible man
How very very sad.
It’s all rubbish just lies he was not sad he was very happy when he died it was a sad accident rip my beautiful little prince ❤️🙏
She’s a liar. According to her, she was the only intimate friend of all of the biggest Hollywood actors/idols of the day. Every one of them confided exclusively in her. Total BS! She was self aggrandizing, narcissistic, man hungry harlot who always craved praise, adoration and being the center of attention!
James Dean was a great actor. Too bad his young life was cut so tragically short. He definitely lived on the fast, wild side. His personal life was his business. It is widely known that he was bisexual. Big deal. What went on in his bedroom did not affect his talented acting ability. May he rest in peace.
This an incredible honest video. I learned hugely from it.
Great video! Mike from Missouri
Jimmy Dean wasn't speeding, he was driving the speed limit. This is from the CHP report which is available online.
This video said he was given a speeding ticket earlier that day. He was doing a reasonable speed I think is what he said when the crash happened.
I live near that intersection. Always careful the time of day I come and go. Heading west sunset time is the worst. We still have lots of major accidents there. It is finally being worked on. You can thank Jerry brown and Newsom for that. We call it blood alley. So many lives. Great sadness ❤
Thank you for sharing that. It sounds like the Spyder was cursed, also.
@@shadowlouise you have to consider the time of day and it was a silver car. Potentially impossible to see. Silver cars get into more accidents than any other color that I'm aware of because they disappear on the roadway. it was a tragic accident that ruined a lot of lives. Best it was broken up and sold or destroyed.
@@shadowlouise p.s. this was a really good video!!!!
@@twiley3530 But there is history with this car linked to other tragedies. Some mentioned in this video.
I hope this time it helps... The optics in that area are horrible.
So talented, so handsome, so troubled and a death so tragic.
All the famous success of Hollywood will not make your inner demons go away😢, so many of these people are tortured and lonely Souls😢
Unless I missed it, he didn't mention that Pier Angeli died of a drug overdose when she was 39. Good job overall.
he didn't....
He did NOT date Marilyn Monroe at all. Elizabeth Taylor said just before her death, that Jimmy had confided in her that he'd been molested as a child, when he'd gone to live with his aunt and uncle. He wasn't gay at all, but even if he was, I'd still love him. I'm 64 and have loved him since 1975 when I was 15. Lots of people went out of their way to get Pier and Jimmy to see each other. Her mum didn't like Jimmy. I love the book written by Dizzy Sheridan, "Dizzy and Jimmy". He definitely didn't date Marilyn, that all made up bs. She was 5 years older than Jimmy - not that that matters. They were definitely at some parties the same time. Eartha Kitt loved Jimmy as a sister. He sometimes match-made couples, and at the time she was dating the writer of "Rebel...". I've been to New York to see his old haunts, and Hollywood, and I went to the James Dean Festival in Fairmount, Indiana in 2016 - a lifelong ambition. I live in the UK and am English. When I die, I want half my ashes to be strewn over Jimmy's grave. I hope and pray that I get to meet him on the other side. He wasn't a tortured soul, he had a great sense of humour and like me, loved playing pranks on people!!! May he rip, I will never stop loving him.
Pm 9pl
What ? 😮
He had many warnings to take a different path.
I used to travel that junction every weekend each way for years... It's a rough one and every change they've made to make it safer hasn't really helped much. That's just something about that place that at certain times of day where it's blind from either direction. They've moved it a bit but that whole area is just rough.
You neglected to mention that he didn’t die straight away he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital
The ambulance was also in an accident and Dean’s broken neck moved and killed him then
And it’s called a private life for a reason, not a public life. Everyone has a private life and whatever they do in their private life is upto them
sophiegeorge, I don't recall hearing that before, but there was a documentary made claiming that had the paramedics used a neck brace, Dean might have survived.
As for "private life," it's a nice thought, but you know this world ain't like that.
Thanks for your post
Wow, I didn’t have this form of information… Please let me know how you found out about that… The ambulance having an accident
Lots of BS here about the accident here on the Central Coast. James Dean was killed instantly. His very low profile Porsche slid underneath the rear end of a truck that was traveling East making a left turn in front of his Porsche traveling West in the late after noon sunlight.
I grew up with a retired CHP chief retired from this area who had photographs of the accident. Black and white accident Pictures never before published in any way or form. In 1974, Kathy G. my high school girl friend showed me her Father's
pictures. The picture included a picture
Of Deans head with his Wayfarers sunglasses on, resting on the front left corner wheel cover. There wasn't a single mark on his perfect young face. The Porsche was sliced clean in half at wheel level. There was no passenger in his car.
The only other person involved was the driver of the truck unharmed.
The lies here are stupendous and absolutely false.
@@lorenzo6mm I appreciate your sharing more information, but surely you realize your comment has no more or less validity than any other.
2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of James Dean. Maybe there will be new documentaries and articles about the life and death of this icon.
I would like to see all the variations concerning his death, and the Curse of the Spyder, examined.
When one is a celebrity, one has no privacy. What one does behind and LOCKED doors is no one else's business. Public is by definition, public
He certainly was handsome. As with everything in the film industry at that time, 90% of actors, actresses, producers, directors, and anyone else involved, had a secret of some kind. If they hadn’t, their truths would deprived them of their careers. And so it continues today, and always will. It’s the nature of the industry.
His mother must have been the most awesome mother ❤
He may have had many dalliances with both men & women, but Pier Angeli was the love of his life!
Yes, exactly. She was the love of his life ❤
Yeah but it's more interesting that he hooked up with eartha kitt, Paul Newman, and Marilyn
@@ojaftertoothpaste7174 Its all interesting
@@ojaftertoothpaste7174Paul Newman 😳😳😳😳😳Are you sure ?
@@elizabethdavie7874Paul Newman also hooked up with Marlon Brando.
Great documentary and always good narrator!
I never heard that paul newman was bi
Me either. He was besotted with his wife.
It's really not our business.
Maybe he was Trysexual?!
There’s a video here on RUclips of a screen test between Newman and Dean . The sexual tension between the two was palpable.
I read he had a love hate relationship with Steve McQueen
Well done! Love your accent!❤
Sounds to me he was bisexual and not just gay.
They claim that car is haunted. Everyone who has had it or even parts of the care brought bad luck to anyone owning it.
Actually it doesn't matter if he was or not.... The movies he was in were awesome. @@Scalcionekitchen
Many celebrities are bisexual! Sal Mineo was gay, too!
@juliacaesarscalcione I don't think so either. He may have involved himself in some things to further his career. But I think that he truly loved Pier Angeli.
A lot of hearsay and speculation go on with Dean. The fact that they found that marriage note he made on Angeli is at least something tangible. Also, Angeli reportedly said on her deathbed that the only man that she ever really loved was James Dean.
@@ScalcionekitchenWhy should being bisexual affect his legacy?
@@SoneaT Exactly. His sex life was his own.
Pier Angeli was the love of his life
Following further romantic failures, bitter disputes with the Italian tax authorities, and worsening financial difficulties, Pierangeli fell into a severe depression and entered a psychiatric clinic. On September 10, 1971, she was found dead in her Beverly Hills home from an accidental barbiturate overdose. She was only 39 years old. Pierangeli’s sister had her buried in Rueil-Malmaison, a suburb of Paris.
“I don’t think any man can save me now,” Pierangli had written in a letter to a friend two months earlier. “I think it may be too late. I think I was meant to live and die alone. Love is far away, somewhere deep inside of me. My love died at the wheel of a
I’ve never watched the initial and final footage before 😮😮😮😮😮 Great video!!
Brad Pitts marriages will go down in history huh… Glad I found you today. I subscribed. 😁This was good. I didn’t know he had a passenger who survived.
Brando was so handsome when he was young
Too bad Brando turned out old, fat and looking stupid
I didn't know James Dean & Marilyn Monroe dated. They were both tortured souls. They would've destroyed each other if they stayed together.
I dont think so
@@Thenogomogo-zo3unMe neither
They never met
They didn't..
Well done. Thank you.
I was a teen when he died but still remember him,his name got so great esp aftet his accident, even with only 3 movies his name withstood the test of time...
It's only an omen if acknowledged BEFORE it occurs not after.
Nice presentation.
Thank you!
What a terrible tragic end to his short, troubled life!❤
I loved JAMES DEAN A BRILLIANT ACTOR SO NATURAL ❤❤❤
Very well Told such Tragedy in his Very Short life 💔💔💔
Thank you for this video.
Hollywood is such a filthy place
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography pictures. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing🤗. The iconic ( Eagles) band. Wrote/recorded/performed a song about his life😉
Pier was the one woman who he was madly in love with. ❤❤❤ He would have married her and stayed with her for life. Her mother heard gay rumors. 😮😮😮😮She ran Piers life.
Pier was forced to marry a man who, according to Debbie Reynolds, beat her!!!!! 😡
Pier was controlled worse than a slave by her mother and husband. She was weak. This was horrible and illegal. 😢😢😢😢😢
Pier was young, very beautiful, and talented. 😊
Affair with James Dean
Angeli also had a passionate romantic relationship with James Dean. They met while she was shooting The Silver Chalice (1954)[7] and he was shooting East of Eden (1955), on an adjoining Warner lot.
Elia Kazan, the director of East of Eden (1955), remembered hearing Dean and Angeli loudly having sex in Dean's dressing room.[8][1]
Much against her will, she was forced to break it off, mainly because her mother was not happy with their relationship because Dean was not Catholic.[1][9] There were rumors that she and Dean secretly saw each other up until his death; Joe Hyams, in his 1992 biography of Dean, James Dean: Little Boy Lost, claims that he visited Dean just as Angeli, then married to Damone, was leaving his home. An Order for the Solemnization of Marriage pamphlet with the name "Pier" lightly penciled in every place the bride's name is left blank was found amongst Dean's personal effects after his death.[10] She would later say that he was the love of her life: "He is the only man I ever loved deeply as a woman should love a man."[9] Friends of Angeli have said she never fully recovered from his death and that she had nightmares about him up until her own death.[1]
She died at 39 od a drug overdose.
But it wasn't a rumour. He was gay. Of course a mother would intervene to stop her daughter being a beard. It's a mothers job to protect her child.
@ I understand
Equally cursed and blessed, he who walked amongst mere mortals spellbound by his heavenly sight for a fleeting moment in time, like the stuff of real legends he departed suddenly while at his most beautiful and accomplished, there is simply no other way to remember the silver Icarus who fell to earth.
wow, your words are like a poem 😍
@@kaotixorder Thank you kindly, I do appreciate it ..............Jimmy is a great inspiration for poetry ...........He was truly unique and special
Maybe dying young was good for him, as it was for Marilyn Monroe. Both people live in with youth and charisma still fresh to those who see and remember then. We never saw them in old age, and more trying times, though, they had some troubling times. They left more of a mark by not being here, then if they had lived till an old age. Just my thoughts.
I do agree with you. I do believe if Marlon Brando had died young too, he could have been remembered as one of the most exotically handsome actor, without having ever to see him gotten old & fat over the years later.
@@zahemi914I am glad Brando lived to be old. I thought he was wonderful in The Godfather & I also liked him in Don Juan DeMarco with Johnny Depp. He was an amazingly talented actor
Thank you for your kindness humility to James Dean i was never a fan but loved movie Giant 🎬
As far as I remember, he was head over heels in love with Pier Angeli, but her parents were
totally against their relationship and pushed her into a relationship with an Italian-American
singer who she eventually married.
He was gay.
@@doreekaplan2589 He was bisexual.
Yes, he was bisexual. He loved Pier though and was crushed when their relationship was destroyed by her mother.
@@doreekaplan2589no he was definitely not gay
@@lja6214no he was straight
I’d like to know if there was actually any proof other than idle gossip that James Dean was gay or bi, every time he fell in love it was a woman. I was just wondering.
I am a huge fan. I highly recommend a trip to Fairmount Indiana ...just not on Sept 3Oth!
Legends always begin with myths....................interesting video. Thank you
I think his brooding good looks was his major card. He was a young actor, still 'practicing' in the few films he made. I found his acting over done sometimes and other times as if he was a cliche, trying to be another....'brooding actor', Marlon Brando.
Could not agree more! 👊🏻
@@girlofthewest964 I found his 'acting' so distracting in the films that I just would overlook the scenes and concentrate on the rest. I really think he became such a 'legend' (in some people's minds) is because of a) the nature of the accident and (b) that he died so young.
I couldn’t stand his whining voice!
@@girlofthewest964I absolutely agree. so glad I am not the only one here regarding the myth of J. Dean. He was a young actor just learning his trade with the few movies he made. His 'myth' was dying so tragically so young. Still, not the superstar time has made him out to be.
@misottovoce yes your so glad your not the only one who thinks this way but all in all you could all travel in the same car together 😅
An icon and he lived like he knew his life would be a short one
Very well designed video. U have some background in cinematography. A sad and beautiful look at James Dean's life. I believe he would of liked your creation!!!💞💞🙃💞💞
Well done video thankyou ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
That Porsche Spyder was such a beautiful but inherently dangerous car.
I would love you to do a bit on the actor Christopher Jones , like Sue Lyons its an untold story ... great work love these !!