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Yesterday I have seen "Rebel Without Cause" movie for first time. I just falled in love.:rofl: Seriously He was a brilliant actor and so pretty pretty boy. If someone of you looks like him let me know :devil: p
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Who knows how James Dean's career would have developed had he lived. He had something most modern screen actors lack - screen prescence!
Sal Mineo recorded a couple of nice songs too.
Here's a little know fact - he was the first male actor to appear in his underwear in a movie!! It was a very low budget film called "Who Killed Teddy Bear" from the 1960s, and apart from lusting over Sal, the only really good thing about it is Elaine Stritch. It's worth a watch if you can find it. I bought the DVD a while ago.
Sal Mineo recorded a couple of nice songs too.
Here's a little know fact - he was the first male actor to appear in his underwear in a movie!!
It was a very low budget film called "Who Killed Teddy Bear" from the 1960s, and apart from lusting over Sal, the only really good thing about it is Elaine Stritch. It's worth a watch if you can find it. I bought the DVD a while ago.
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What I always found most interesting about Dean was his death. Or rather the car behind it, The Little Bastard.
Little Bastard was a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, one of only 90 made.
From an article about the car...
The actor was excited to show off his newest race car, his friends weren't happy about the purchase. In the time leading up to Dean's death, friends of the actor - including Barris, Eartha Kitt and Dean's former girlfriend Ursula Andress - said that they felt that the vehicle had a malevolent presence about it.
“James, I don't like this car; it's going to kill you,” Kitt is reported to have said to Dean while the two were out for a drive the week before Dean's crash.
Around the same time, Dean introduced himself to Alec Guinness and asked the actor's opinion of the car. Upon seeing it, Guinness stated that the car was sinister, and said that if Dean got in it, he would be dead within the week.
Perhaps Dean himself sensed that he was headed for destruction. Prior to his death, he gave away a kitten that Liz Taylor gave to him on the set of Giant. His reasoning for doing so was that “some day I may go out and not come back.”
And while filming a commercial for the National Safety Council, Dean ad-libbed the words of the script from “Please Drive Safely. The life you save may your own,” to “The life you save may be mine.”
Dean was dead 13 days later...
What happened next fueled speculation that Dean's car was cursed, or at the very least, led a cursed afterlife.
Barris immediately paid $2,500 for the wreckage with the intent of parting it out. However, a string of bizarre tragedies immediately struck.
As soon as the vehicle was delivered to Barris' garage, it slipped off its trailer and broke a mechanic's leg.
Shortly thereafter, Barris sold the engine to Troy McHenry and the drive train to William Eschrid. Both were physicians and racing hobbyists. While racing at the Pomona fairgrounds on October 24, 1956, McHenry was killed when his vehicle spun out of control and crashed into a tree. Eschrid's race car rolled several times while taking a curve, seriously injuring him. He later said that the vehicle 'just locked up' on him.
Two tires that Barris sold malfunctioned simultaneously, causing the car they were on to go off the road.
A young man who was attempting to steal the steering wheel had his arm gashed open on a piece of jagged metal.
Another man was hurt while trying to steal one of the bloodstained seats.
At this point, Barris decided that the car would be safer in storage. But before long, the California Highway Patrol persuaded him to loan them the car for a traveling exhibition.
The mangled remains of Little Bastard were taken to a garage in Fresno, and stored there. Then, in March 1959, a fire broke out in the garage. The garage itself, and everything stored within, were incinerated. All except for the wreckage of James Dean's car.
Further tragedy followed. At a display at Sacramento High School on the anniversary of Dean's accident, the bolts holding the car in place snapped. The car plowed off its display and broke the hip of a fifteen-year-old boy who had been looking at the wreckage.
En route to Salinas, the truck hauling the vehicle lost control, causing the driver to fall out of the cab. Although the fall from the vehicle didn't kill him, the Porsche fell off the truck bed and landed on top of him, ending his life.
Reportedly, while being displayed in New Orleans, the wreckage spontaneously broke apart in five separate pieces.
The car came off of a truck two other times. Once while on a freeway, and a second time in Oregon.
In 1960, the car's tour ended. Barris had the vehicle loaded onto a box car in Florida and sealed shut. Then it was transported via train back to California. When the train arrived in L.A., the seal was still intact, yet the car had vanished, and has not been seen since.
***Currently, the only remaining part of Little Bastard is the transaxle, which was used in the restoration of another 550 spyder owned by Jack Styles, a Porsche collector and restorer from Massachusetts.
This is the last picture ever taken of James Dean, the day he died...
Little Bastard was a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, one of only 90 made.
From an article about the car...
The actor was excited to show off his newest race car, his friends weren't happy about the purchase. In the time leading up to Dean's death, friends of the actor - including Barris, Eartha Kitt and Dean's former girlfriend Ursula Andress - said that they felt that the vehicle had a malevolent presence about it.
“James, I don't like this car; it's going to kill you,” Kitt is reported to have said to Dean while the two were out for a drive the week before Dean's crash.
Around the same time, Dean introduced himself to Alec Guinness and asked the actor's opinion of the car. Upon seeing it, Guinness stated that the car was sinister, and said that if Dean got in it, he would be dead within the week.
Perhaps Dean himself sensed that he was headed for destruction. Prior to his death, he gave away a kitten that Liz Taylor gave to him on the set of Giant. His reasoning for doing so was that “some day I may go out and not come back.”
And while filming a commercial for the National Safety Council, Dean ad-libbed the words of the script from “Please Drive Safely. The life you save may your own,” to “The life you save may be mine.”
Dean was dead 13 days later...
What happened next fueled speculation that Dean's car was cursed, or at the very least, led a cursed afterlife.
Barris immediately paid $2,500 for the wreckage with the intent of parting it out. However, a string of bizarre tragedies immediately struck.
As soon as the vehicle was delivered to Barris' garage, it slipped off its trailer and broke a mechanic's leg.
Shortly thereafter, Barris sold the engine to Troy McHenry and the drive train to William Eschrid. Both were physicians and racing hobbyists. While racing at the Pomona fairgrounds on October 24, 1956, McHenry was killed when his vehicle spun out of control and crashed into a tree. Eschrid's race car rolled several times while taking a curve, seriously injuring him. He later said that the vehicle 'just locked up' on him.
Two tires that Barris sold malfunctioned simultaneously, causing the car they were on to go off the road.
A young man who was attempting to steal the steering wheel had his arm gashed open on a piece of jagged metal.
Another man was hurt while trying to steal one of the bloodstained seats.
At this point, Barris decided that the car would be safer in storage. But before long, the California Highway Patrol persuaded him to loan them the car for a traveling exhibition.
The mangled remains of Little Bastard were taken to a garage in Fresno, and stored there. Then, in March 1959, a fire broke out in the garage. The garage itself, and everything stored within, were incinerated. All except for the wreckage of James Dean's car.
Further tragedy followed. At a display at Sacramento High School on the anniversary of Dean's accident, the bolts holding the car in place snapped. The car plowed off its display and broke the hip of a fifteen-year-old boy who had been looking at the wreckage.
En route to Salinas, the truck hauling the vehicle lost control, causing the driver to fall out of the cab. Although the fall from the vehicle didn't kill him, the Porsche fell off the truck bed and landed on top of him, ending his life.
Reportedly, while being displayed in New Orleans, the wreckage spontaneously broke apart in five separate pieces.
The car came off of a truck two other times. Once while on a freeway, and a second time in Oregon.
In 1960, the car's tour ended. Barris had the vehicle loaded onto a box car in Florida and sealed shut. Then it was transported via train back to California. When the train arrived in L.A., the seal was still intact, yet the car had vanished, and has not been seen since.
***Currently, the only remaining part of Little Bastard is the transaxle, which was used in the restoration of another 550 spyder owned by Jack Styles, a Porsche collector and restorer from Massachusetts.
This is the last picture ever taken of James Dean, the day he died...
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