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This September marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Dean in a racing accident, and with this anecdotal biography, his fans will have plenty of fresh fodder to chew. Born in 1931, Dean was nine when his mother died, and he was brought up by relatives in Indiana. After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, which was advanced when he became sexually involved with an adman/director who introduced him to influential people in New York City. A bisexual, Dean used sex to promote his career by boating with a producer who cast him in the lead role in the Broadway-bound See the Jaguar. The book heavily concentrates on Dean's Manhattan years (groupies will have a field day visiting the myriad addresses where he lived) and gives a blow-by-blow description of almost every one of Dean's acting jobs, his years at the Actors Studio and his relationships with such actors as Arthur Kennedy, Martin Landau, Julie Harris and Betsy Palmer. Holley recounts Dean's manipulative friction with Raymond Massey in East of Eden; the confrontations with director George Stevens on the Giant set; and how studio head Jack Warner ended Dean's romance with actress Pier Angeli. Freelance writer Holley has produced a meticulously documented work that dissects Dean's personality as never before. Photos not seen by PW.
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Published on the 40th anniversary of James Dean's death, Holley's biography admirably avoids buying into the mythos that has grown around Dean over the years, instead presenting a fascinating description of a flawed human being. Holley draws on diverse sources, many of them previously unavailable, to create a candid and fully realized portrait of this most enigmatic of actors. Dean was a shy, deeply insecure man who never recovered from the early loss of his mother. Charismatic, ambitious, and astoundingly gifted, Dean was also notoriously moody and difficult, his desperate need for affection and attention often manifesting itself in contradictory, ultimately self-destructive behavior. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this is a worthy addition to the growing body of literature surrounding an actor whose life achieved mythic proportions as a result of his untimely death. Recommended for all types of libraries.?Cynthia Ward Cooper, Carrolton Libs., Tex.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This September marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Dean in a racing accident, and with this anecdotal biography, his fans will have plenty of fresh fodder to chew. Born in 1931, Dean was nine when his mother died, and he was brought up by relatives in Indiana. After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, which was advanced when he became sexually involved with an adman/director who introduced him to influential people in New York City. A bisexual, Dean used sex to promote his career by boating with a producer who cast him in the lead role in the Broadway-bound See the Jaguar. The book heavily concentrates on Dean's Manhattan years (groupies will have a field day visiting the myriad addresses where he lived) and gives a blow-by-blow description of almost every one of Dean's acting jobs, his years at the Actors Studio and his relationships with such actors as Arthur Kennedy, Martin Landau, Julie Harris and Betsy Palmer. Holley recounts Dean's manipulative friction with Raymond Massey in East of Eden; the confrontations with director George Stevens on the Giant set; and how studio head Jack Warner ended Dean's romance with actress Pier Angeli. Freelance writer Holley has produced a meticulously documented work that dissects Dean's personality as never before. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Published on the 40th anniversary of James Dean's death, Holley's biography admirably avoids buying into the mythos that has grown around Dean over the years, instead presenting a fascinating description of a flawed human being. Holley draws on diverse sources, many of them previously unavailable, to create a candid and fully realized portrait of this most enigmatic of actors. Dean was a shy, deeply insecure man who never recovered from the early loss of his mother. Charismatic, ambitious, and astoundingly gifted, Dean was also notoriously moody and difficult, his desperate need for affection and attention often manifesting itself in contradictory, ultimately self-destructive behavior. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this is a worthy addition to the growing body of literature surrounding an actor whose life achieved mythic proportions as a result of his untimely death. Recommended for all types of libraries.?Cynthia Ward Cooper, Carrolton Libs., Tex.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The CBS studio at Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood was in a state of flux in 1951. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, James Dean, East of Eden, Actors Studio, Rogers Brackett, The Immoralist, Rebel Without, Santa Monica, Warner Brothers, Barbara Glenn, Pier Angeli, Bill Bast, Jimmy Dean, Isabel Draesemer, Christine White, Los Angeles, Dizzy Sheridan, Daily Variety, Alec Wilder, Nicholas Ray, Sidney Skolsky, Beverly Wills, Dick Clayton, Jonathan Gilmore, Marlon Brando New!
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- James Dean: Behind the Scenes by Leith Adams on 13 pages
- James Dean by William Bast on 6 pages
- James Dean by Wallace on 5 pages
- James Dean: A Portrait by Roy Schatt on 4 pages
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck on page 190, page 195, and Back Matter
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- Live Fast, Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause by Lawrence Frascella in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion by Michael Eric Dyson in Back Matter
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