James Dean by andy551
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James Dean was born in 1931 and raised on a farm by his aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. After grade school, he moved to New York to pursue his dream of acting. He received rave reviews for his work as the blackmailing Arab boy in the New York production of Gide’s “The Immoralist”, good enough to earn him a trip to Hollywood. His early film efforts were strictly bit parts: a sailor in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis overly frantic musical comedy Sailor Beware (1952); a GI in Samuel Fuller’s moody study of a platoon in the Korean War, Fixed Bayonets! (1951) and a youth in the Piper Laurie-Rock Hudson comedy Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952).

He had major roles in only three movies. In the Elia Kazan production of John Steinbeck’s Na wschód od Edenu (1955) he played Caleb, the “bad” brother who couldn’t force affection from his stiff-necked father. His true starring role, the one which fixed his image forever in American culture, was that of the brooding red-jacketed teenager Jim Stark in Nicholas Ray’s Buntownik bez powodu (1955). George Stevens’ filming of Edna Ferber’s Olbrzym (1956), in which he played the non-conforming cowhand Jett Rink who strikes it rich when he discovers oil, was just coming to a close when Dean, driving his Porsche Spyder race car, collided with another car while on the road near Cholame, California on September 30, 1955. He had received a speeding ticket just two hours before. James Dean was killed almost immediately from the impact from a broken neck. He was 24. His very brief career, violent death and highly publicized funeral transformed him into a cult object of apparently timeless fascination.

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  • kathy s gillentine
    kathy s gillen...4 months ago

    excellent work

  • maggie326
    maggie3264 months ago

    Awesome work Andy

  • swaby
    swaby4 months ago

    Gorgeous work Andy, magnificent art!

  • DeeZ (D L Honeycutt)
    DeeZ (D L Hone...4 months ago

    Exceptional!

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  • buttonpresser
    buttonpresser4 months ago

    “The only greatness for man is immortality.”

    James Dean

    Great work Andy

  • patjila
    patjila4 months ago

    AWSOME Andy! Two words WOW and FAVE :)

  • LoveringArts
    LoveringArts4 months ago

    Soooooooooooooo breathtaking …. A mesmerizing portrait Andy

  • AngieDavies
    AngieDavies4 months ago

    Wonderful portrait of this American icon! Love it!

  • JohnDSmith
    JohnDSmith4 months ago

    That`s just fantastic,….

  • Debbie Robbins
    Debbie Robbins4 months ago

    YESSSSSS Andy!!!!!! Superb my friend!! :)))))