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  • čas přidán 2. 03. 2024
  • James Dean only spent a few years in Hollywood-but his gruesome end and the scandals he left behind have undoubtedly immortalized him.
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  • @josephseverino674
    @josephseverino674 Před 3 měsíci +219

    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.

    • @truth8307
      @truth8307 Před 2 měsíci +6

      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.

    • @daphnecausey3516
      @daphnecausey3516 Před 2 měsíci +5

      His death broke my 13 year old heart!😢

    • @donnajellerson5886
      @donnajellerson5886 Před měsícem +1

      😊oooòoì

    • @BrianAdamkowski
      @BrianAdamkowski Před měsícem

      Very good production❤

  • @juliebarks3195
    @juliebarks3195 Před 3 měsíci +405

    No stupid robotic voice or overpowering loud music. Well done. Have an award

    • @exdus235
      @exdus235 Před 3 měsíci +10

      ❤👌

    • @panatypical
      @panatypical Před 3 měsíci +2

      I don't know about the music. It bugs me.

    • @cq9882
      @cq9882 Před 3 měsíci +9

      The best, a real storyteller 😀

    • @davidmeyer3565
      @davidmeyer3565 Před 3 měsíci +3

      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

    • @SammyMikovoure
      @SammyMikovoure Před měsícem +1

      I hate robotic A.I. voice.

  • @lesleyhubble2976
    @lesleyhubble2976 Před 3 měsíci +191

    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

    • @danielkoher1944
      @danielkoher1944 Před 2 měsíci +14

      I had a customer, long retired lawyer. He had an original marquee ’REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE’ given to him by a client.

    • @user-yy4uh5kp4n
      @user-yy4uh5kp4n Před měsícem +3

      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!

    • @TheCocobana
      @TheCocobana Před měsícem +5

      I was a little bit young, however, I remember the more senior girls in school were bereft.. weeping and wailing.

  • @judythompson8227
    @judythompson8227 Před 3 měsíci +156

    all three of them, Mineo, Natalie wood, and James Dean, died violently and much too soon...

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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

  • @jelsner5077
    @jelsner5077 Před 3 měsíci +132

    So nice to watch a video with an actual human voice! Well done

    • @ahmadidrus3760
      @ahmadidrus3760 Před 2 měsíci +9

      I lived in Aberdeen Scotland for 4 years, l love the Scottish accent

  • @simonwatson4153
    @simonwatson4153 Před 3 měsíci +107

    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.

    • @stevep4574
      @stevep4574 Před 2 měsíci +9

      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.

    • @robertab7341
      @robertab7341 Před měsícem +3

      I'm sure you know those jeans have a value.

  • @Cachtice1181
    @Cachtice1181 Před 3 měsíci +198

    As a Scottish girl, lovely to hear a fellow Scot narrator 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @alphooey
      @alphooey Před 3 měsíci +8

      Listen to “well, I never” great tales and Glasgow lad.

    • @neighborhoodlilian
      @neighborhoodlilian Před 3 měsíci +15

      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!

    • @danielkoher1944
      @danielkoher1944 Před 2 měsíci +6

      I absolutely love all UK 🇬🇧 accent so crisp, clear, and articulate.😊

  • @CarolynMScotti-gr5ut
    @CarolynMScotti-gr5ut Před 2 měsíci +69

    James Dean was a unique personality and a great actor. He had died much too young, but will always be remembered.

  • @cme2158
    @cme2158 Před 3 měsíci +108

    He was such a handsome, tortured soul. Him being in Hollywood didn’t help. Poor guy.May he Forever Rest In Heaven..💐😭

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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....

  • @leslielutz6140
    @leslielutz6140 Před 3 měsíci +271

    This was absolutely beautifully made. BEST NARRATOR EVER.

    • @Cachtice1181
      @Cachtice1181 Před 3 měsíci +25

      As a Scottish girl, it is lovely to hear a fellow Scot narrator 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @juliebarks3195
      @juliebarks3195 Před 3 měsíci +20

      @@Cachtice1181
      Totally agree.

    • @samanthablount139
      @samanthablount139 Před 3 měsíci

      😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊​@@Cachtice1181

    • @raymondwolken7975
      @raymondwolken7975 Před 3 měsíci +23

      I love listening to his accent and soothing voice. ❤😊

    • @myopinion6092
      @myopinion6092 Před 3 měsíci +1

      ewwwwww

  • @rafaelh1673
    @rafaelh1673 Před 3 měsíci +52

    May he never be forgotten. Proud to share birthday with him February 8 .

    • @giuseppersa2391
      @giuseppersa2391 Před 2 měsíci +7

      Absolutely! We aquarians are unusual people ✌️

    • @asym08
      @asym08 Před 2 měsíci +2

      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

  • @chickadee-
    @chickadee- Před 3 měsíci +72

    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....

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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....

  • @donnajohnson9279
    @donnajohnson9279 Před 3 měsíci +50

    Amazingly enough, Lee Strasburg was also Marilyn Monroe's tutor. Seven years later, after Dean, she was dead.

  • @katiestover8954
    @katiestover8954 Před 3 měsíci +69

    I had just turned four when James Dean was killed, but I remember my two older teenage sisters crying for days afterwards.

    • @user-mc9qh9xc6v
      @user-mc9qh9xc6v Před 3 měsíci +5

      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?.)

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@user-mc9qh9xc6v For real!!! Debbie Reynolds? Who could NOT like Debbie? Too talented? Too pretty?

    • @intentionallyleftblank3016
      @intentionallyleftblank3016 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-mc9qh9xc6v Re: Debbie Reynolds - as Mr. Grant told Mary Richards on MTM Show “You’ve got spunk . . . I hate spunk.”! 😂❤

  • @davidmacias741
    @davidmacias741 Před 2 měsíci +17

    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.

  • @nicolaablett7790
    @nicolaablett7790 Před 3 měsíci +43

    THANK YOU
    Beautifully narrated
    What a sad life

  • @lindacosta3265
    @lindacosta3265 Před 3 měsíci +41

    What matters the most about Dean is his astound beauty. He was perfect in his manner😊❤

  • @sylviayoung1901
    @sylviayoung1901 Před 3 měsíci +21

    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.

  • @paperboy8865
    @paperboy8865 Před 3 měsíci +82

    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.”

    • @TheMartuco
      @TheMartuco Před 2 měsíci +2

      💔😭🫂

    • @user-nu3zh2sq8v
      @user-nu3zh2sq8v Před 2 měsíci +1

      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

    • @kimaglioti7775
      @kimaglioti7775 Před měsícem +3

      How very very sad.

    • @p.j.gannon1646
      @p.j.gannon1646 Před měsícem +3

      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 ❤️🙏

    • @Moonsiren777
      @Moonsiren777 Před měsícem

      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!

  • @DWilliams-ce8nb
    @DWilliams-ce8nb Před 3 měsíci +53

    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''

  • @kerrydempster9416
    @kerrydempster9416 Před 3 měsíci +40

    Love the narrator he's definitely Scottish learned alot from this here's to the memory of James Dean rip wherever you are!!!!

  • @sandragruhle6288
    @sandragruhle6288 Před 2 měsíci +12

    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.

  • @allenwayne2033
    @allenwayne2033 Před 3 měsíci +43

    Unless I missed it, he didn't mention that Pier Angeli died of a drug overdose when she was 39. Good job overall.

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny +1

      he didn't....

  • @nadinedavies6746
    @nadinedavies6746 Před 3 měsíci +31

    ❤ 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.❤

  • @KassiusFineArt
    @KassiusFineArt Před 3 měsíci +48

    Thank you. You did a wonderful job on this. Love your narration, too.

  • @groominator-magneticequato7195
    @groominator-magneticequato7195 Před 3 měsíci +25

    Best narrator, editing & background music. Keep creating these - I watch everyone.

  • @deedee7733
    @deedee7733 Před 2 měsíci +48

    What made him special was his acting, which was ahead of its time, not his real or imagined sex life.

    • @42kellys
      @42kellys Před 2 měsíci +2

      How true

    • @ValTwineDeaner
      @ValTwineDeaner Před 2 měsíci +3

      Exactly. People come out with the most ridiculous statements about Jimmy. He's not here to defend himself.

    • @klecoxs2
      @klecoxs2 Před 2 měsíci

      A “Method Actor” I believe Marlon Brando, Anne Bancroft, Al Pacino

    • @42kellys
      @42kellys Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@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.

    • @stardustgirl2904
      @stardustgirl2904 Před 9 dny

      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!

  • @jeanettecook1088
    @jeanettecook1088 Před 3 měsíci +66

    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
      @americanwoman445 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Exactly...I was taught to be a defensive driver.

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un Před 2 měsíci

      @@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.

    • @kristabene
      @kristabene Před měsícem +2

      Agreed!

  • @angelapietras1235
    @angelapietras1235 Před 2 měsíci +24

    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.

  • @Speckledlillie
    @Speckledlillie Před 3 měsíci +40

    I’m not particularly interested in this particular person, but I watched because I enjoy this particular narrator. 👍👏

  • @ceilconstante640
    @ceilconstante640 Před 3 měsíci +44

    Very well done documentary! I've heard the rumors but didn't know all the things covered here about him.

    • @reeree6682
      @reeree6682 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Agreed

    • @cynthiahusband106
      @cynthiahusband106 Před 2 měsíci +1

      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.❤️

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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. :(

  • @SizzleMoonSong
    @SizzleMoonSong Před měsícem +6

    Factinate: Beautifully & Expertly done. Thank you.

  • @janclark8015
    @janclark8015 Před 3 měsíci +55

    I never heard that paul newman was bi

    • @someguy9519
      @someguy9519 Před 3 měsíci +22

      Me either. He was besotted with his wife.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Před 3 měsíci +15

      It's really not our business.

    • @lundsweden
      @lundsweden Před 3 měsíci +1

      Maybe he was Trysexual?!

    • @PungiFungi
      @PungiFungi Před 3 měsíci +14

      There’s a video here on CZcams of a screen test between Newman and Dean . The sexual tension between the two was palpable.

    • @tonywoods3149
      @tonywoods3149 Před 3 měsíci +5

      I read he had a love hate relationship with Steve McQueen

  • @judytaylor3099
    @judytaylor3099 Před 3 měsíci +18

    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.

  • @BallgagsandBlinders
    @BallgagsandBlinders Před 3 měsíci +26

    ABSOLUTELY beautifully done. 👏👏 Great job!! Thank you for the tastefully done video. I believe James would have approved. Minus his secret getting out. But that can't be helped. The TRUTH always finds the light of day somehow. Again, thank you. 💚

  • @nanettecormier8513
    @nanettecormier8513 Před 3 měsíci +41

    "Brooding splendor...". Never could buy into the James Dean hype. I do feel sorry for him, though. Obviously, a deeply troubled young man.

  • @mahatchiko602
    @mahatchiko602 Před 2 měsíci +5

    ❤Thank you for Elisabeth Taylor’s story. That Jams Dean , was a victim of child abuse. Know his character and struggles, make much more sense. Heavy PTSD patient, so no wonder. Very very sad.

  • @davedee4382
    @davedee4382 Před 3 měsíci +33

    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. 😊

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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.

  • @monicacappetta7017
    @monicacappetta7017 Před 3 měsíci +36

    So talented, so handsome, so troubled and a death so tragic.

  • @ShipperTrash88
    @ShipperTrash88 Před 3 měsíci +51

    He may have had many dalliances with both men & women, but Pier Angeli was the love of his life!

    • @lunasloanbailey
      @lunasloanbailey Před 2 měsíci +5

      Yes, exactly. She was the love of his life ❤

    • @ojaftertoothpaste7174
      @ojaftertoothpaste7174 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Yeah but it's more interesting that he hooked up with eartha kitt, Paul Newman, and Marilyn

    • @ShipperTrash88
      @ShipperTrash88 Před 2 měsíci

      @@ojaftertoothpaste7174 Its all interesting

    • @elizabethdavie7874
      @elizabethdavie7874 Před měsícem

      @@ojaftertoothpaste7174Paul Newman 😳😳😳😳😳Are you sure ?

    • @velvetalex4766
      @velvetalex4766 Před měsícem

      @@elizabethdavie7874Paul Newman also hooked up with Marlon Brando.

  • @mangott
    @mangott Před 3 měsíci +8

    This video is put together very well. Excellent flow and narrative about this remarkable actor.

  • @maysusanvanzuela-bedural2763
    @maysusanvanzuela-bedural2763 Před měsícem +3

    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...

  • @ridgemanron
    @ridgemanron Před 3 měsíci +37

    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.

    • @doreekaplan2589
      @doreekaplan2589 Před 3 měsíci +7

      He was gay.

    • @lja6214
      @lja6214 Před 3 měsíci +11

      ​@@doreekaplan2589 He was bisexual.

    • @nohandle62
      @nohandle62 Před 3 měsíci +8

      Yes, he was bisexual. He loved Pier though and was crushed when their relationship was destroyed by her mother.

    • @Eyespyasnitch
      @Eyespyasnitch Před 3 měsíci +9

      @@doreekaplan2589no he was definitely not gay

    • @Eyespyasnitch
      @Eyespyasnitch Před 3 měsíci +7

      @@lja6214no he was straight

  • @kimaglioti7775
    @kimaglioti7775 Před měsícem +3

    Beautifully narrated. Loved the accent and the way this man documented James Dean's tragic ending.

  • @GLITTERandSKULLZ
    @GLITTERandSKULLZ Před měsícem +5

    It's only an omen if acknowledged BEFORE it occurs not after.

  • @twiley3530
    @twiley3530 Před 3 měsíci +35

    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
      @shadowlouise Před 3 měsíci +4

      Thank you for sharing that. It sounds like the Spyder was cursed, also.

    • @twiley3530
      @twiley3530 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@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.

    • @twiley3530
      @twiley3530 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@shadowlouise p.s. this was a really good video!!!!

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@twiley3530 But there is history with this car linked to other tragedies. Some mentioned in this video.

    • @cherisenunez2530
      @cherisenunez2530 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I hope this time it helps... The optics in that area are horrible.

  • @tigressnsnow
    @tigressnsnow Před 3 měsíci +15

    Pier Angeli was the love of his life

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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

  • @ExpandingHeart
    @ExpandingHeart Před 16 dny

    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.

  • @str8eye
    @str8eye Před 3 měsíci +12

    James Dean was oooh sooo perfectly made 🤗 that even his name is fit just perfect 4 him👌😍

  • @americanwoman445
    @americanwoman445 Před 2 měsíci +8

    He had many warnings to take a different path.

  • @sophiegeorge2816
    @sophiegeorge2816 Před 3 měsíci +53

    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

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise Před 3 měsíci +11

      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

    • @gforceeatingcorrect
      @gforceeatingcorrect Před 3 měsíci +5

      Wow, I didn’t have this form of information… Please let me know how you found out about that… The ambulance having an accident

    • @lorenzo6mm
      @lorenzo6mm Před 3 měsíci +9

      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.

    • @shadowlouise
      @shadowlouise Před 3 měsíci +4

      @@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.

    • @user-ov2qf2nn9o
      @user-ov2qf2nn9o Před 3 měsíci +3

      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

  • @theterminaldave
    @theterminaldave Před 3 měsíci +15

    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.

  • @waynecoleman-ou9te
    @waynecoleman-ou9te Před 2 měsíci +27

    I didn't know James Dean & Marilyn Monroe dated. They were both tortured souls. They would've destroyed each other if they stayed together.

  • @vanessacallahan3515
    @vanessacallahan3515 Před 3 měsíci +56

    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.

    • @SoneaT
      @SoneaT Před 3 měsíci +14

      Actually it doesn't matter if he was or not.... The movies he was in were awesome. ​@@Eyespyasnitch

    • @judithscobee8102
      @judithscobee8102 Před 3 měsíci

      Many celebrities are bisexual! Sal Mineo was gay, too!

    • @waynej2608
      @waynej2608 Před 2 měsíci +10

      ​@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.

    • @taraalan1131
      @taraalan1131 Před 2 měsíci +10

      @@EyespyasnitchWhy should being bisexual affect his legacy?

    • @vanessacallahan3515
      @vanessacallahan3515 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@SoneaT Exactly. His sex life was his own.

  • @AriesAllTheWay
    @AriesAllTheWay Před 3 měsíci +9

    Tht was a WONDERFULLY done piece. Thank you for NOT mkn this jus another gossipy tell-all. It was very classy. Kudos!

  • @TheHuny85
    @TheHuny85 Před 3 měsíci +9

    He is such a star ..love him

  • @angelaasfour1056
    @angelaasfour1056 Před měsícem +2

    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!

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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....

  • @docdynamix
    @docdynamix Před 2 měsíci +11

    His mother must have been the most awesome mother ❤

  • @graceantonio3573
    @graceantonio3573 Před 3 měsíci +8

    THANK YOU. FASCINATING. POWERFUL STORY OF JAMES DEAN, AN ICONIC SHOWBIZ PERSONALITY.

  • @Valjao67
    @Valjao67 Před 3 měsíci +10

    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.

  • @zappa-happy3271
    @zappa-happy3271 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Hey Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Narrator, Awesome job! Luv from UK!💖💖🦋

    • @hsltr1
      @hsltr1 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I think the narrator is Neil Oliver

  • @hugholiveiro2081
    @hugholiveiro2081 Před 3 měsíci +14

    Legends never die.......

  • @davedee4382
    @davedee4382 Před 3 měsíci +5

    VERY WELL DONE VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ you deserve an award!!!
    Every element is PROFESSIONAL!!!!! Thank you for producing it and posting it!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

  • @DoorToWindow
    @DoorToWindow Před 2 měsíci +4

    East of Eden was a work of Art with Dean in it.

  • @cazza7034
    @cazza7034 Před 3 měsíci +29

    Brilliant 🤩 thank you. Totally loved James Dean and all the actors mentioned. All my era x

  • @pepperjones7559
    @pepperjones7559 Před 3 měsíci +17

    Nice presentation.

  • @RWAC685
    @RWAC685 Před měsícem +2

    RIP James Dean.
    RIP Pier Angeli.
    Together Forever.

  • @kimt4565
    @kimt4565 Před 2 měsíci +2

    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.

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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

  • @p.j.gannon1646
    @p.j.gannon1646 Před 3 měsíci +8

    James Dean was a beautiful man and so talented everything said about him is just lies there is no proof he can not defend himself rip you wonderful man love you forever 💙🙏

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      yep.
      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....

  • @nohandle62
    @nohandle62 Před 3 měsíci +15

    I don't believe Dean slept with Newman. 👎🏻

    • @lengue2001
      @lengue2001 Před 2 měsíci +2

      why not? Marlon Brando talked about that in an interview.

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un Před 2 měsíci +1

      If these actors had the amount of relationships that people claimed them to have had, they wouldnt have time for anything else. Its all made up nonsense to sell tabloids and scandal magazines

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny +1

      He didn't. Or Taylor. They were best friends. He may have been Bi, but Pier 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 porshe.

  • @susanross1651
    @susanross1651 Před 3 měsíci +9

    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.

  • @ninarizzo7312
    @ninarizzo7312 Před 3 měsíci +5

    What a terrible tragic end to his short, troubled life!❤

  • @cherisenunez2530
    @cherisenunez2530 Před 3 měsíci +4

    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.

  • @williamstamper5395
    @williamstamper5395 Před 3 měsíci +3

    James Dean did bring an interest but after I saw 'Giant', then came 'Rebel' now this story told here, thank you for your details.

  • @ValTwineDeaner
    @ValTwineDeaner Před 2 měsíci +14

    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.

  • @ericcastillo1332
    @ericcastillo1332 Před 2 měsíci +2

    All the famous success of Hollywood will not make your inner demons go away😢, so many of these people are tortured and lonely Souls😢

  • @missshroom5512
    @missshroom5512 Před 3 měsíci +6

    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

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un Před 2 měsíci

      Too bad Brando turned out old, fat and looking stupid

  • @MikeLoveBuns
    @MikeLoveBuns Před 3 měsíci +4

    Great video! Mike from Missouri

  • @megan2878
    @megan2878 Před měsícem +2

    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.

  • @dianehebel1834
    @dianehebel1834 Před 3 měsíci +8

    Such a sad story of James Dean…one can only wonder how far he would go in film, such a shame he had to die in a car accident 😢

  • @thomasdahl2232
    @thomasdahl2232 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Great documentary and always good narrator!

  • @stardustgirl2904
    @stardustgirl2904 Před 9 dny +2

    There is absolutely no proof of James Dean knowing Marilyn Monroe!

  • @Reflectors1
    @Reflectors1 Před měsícem +1

    Thank you for this video.

  • @tigergreg8
    @tigergreg8 Před 3 měsíci +25

    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.

    • @zahemi914
      @zahemi914 Před 2 měsíci +1

      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.

  • @misottovoce
    @misottovoce Před 3 měsíci +41

    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.

    • @marthaj67
      @marthaj67 Před 3 měsíci +8

      Could not agree more! 👊🏻

    • @misottovoce
      @misottovoce Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@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.

    • @beckywebb1916
      @beckywebb1916 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I couldn’t stand his whining voice!

    • @misottovoce
      @misottovoce Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@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.

    • @paultaylor7624
      @paultaylor7624 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@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 😅

  • @venezoom
    @venezoom Před 3 měsíci +5

    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.

    • @kaotixorder
      @kaotixorder Před 2 měsíci

      wow, your words are like a poem 😍

    • @venezoom
      @venezoom Před 2 měsíci

      @@kaotixorder Thank you kindly, I do appreciate it ..............Jimmy is a great inspiration for poetry ...........He was truly unique and special

  • @anitagendler3812
    @anitagendler3812 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Well done! Love your accent!❤

  • @chrisv.4071
    @chrisv.4071 Před 3 měsíci +10

    Well done video thankyou ❤

  • @David-yw2lv
    @David-yw2lv Před 3 měsíci +8

    His father abandoned him to his grandparents after his mother died.There are several roles I can see him having played had he lived.Among them are Norman Bates in Psycho,Tom Hagen in The Godfather, and Dirty Harry.

  • @ekanang7550
    @ekanang7550 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I still try to figure out, why some people are worshipped like demigods. These "shocking secrets" of a young and unmature person, are truly not shocking. The world can not live without idols, so we have to spin more and more stories, to idolize someone, maybe we have nothing else to do with our life, like me at the moment, watching this.

  • @pipthecat2389
    @pipthecat2389 Před měsícem

    Fabulous, thank you so much. Xx

  • @greggkimball4110
    @greggkimball4110 Před 3 měsíci +19

    Q. What would James Dean's career arc look like had he lived? A. It would have looked like Steve McQueen's.

    • @aholman4571
      @aholman4571 Před 3 měsíci +9

      No. Dean would be much bigger than McQueen, Brando or even Nicholson. He was the ultimate original in so many areas. Dare to be different and real. Changed the young generations like no others.

    • @PungiFungi
      @PungiFungi Před 3 měsíci +3

      He could’ve turned out like Marlon Brando. One writer once said Dean’s premature death granted him eternal youth. We will never see him get old, or fat, or lose his hair, or will he preserved himself gracefully like Tab Hunter or Carey Grant.

    • @Thenogomogo-zo3un
      @Thenogomogo-zo3un Před 2 měsíci

      @@PungiFungi I dont know about the affair with Brando, sounds nonsense. He died young and beautiful. Didnt grow old, fat and looking stupid like Brando.

  • @lauralametterey8125
    @lauralametterey8125 Před 3 měsíci +5

    Well done. Thank you.

  • @WNYfellow
    @WNYfellow Před 3 měsíci +14

    Well, what about Liz Sheridan (of Seinfeld fame) - who claimed to have an affair with Dean.

    • @David-yw2lv
      @David-yw2lv Před 3 měsíci +4

      Liz once claimed she & James Dean were planning to marry.

    • @melodytannerclark
      @melodytannerclark Před 3 měsíci +1

      There are many facts left out, on Brackett’s suspicious dime.

  • @truecynic1270
    @truecynic1270 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Legends always begin with myths....................interesting video. Thank you

  • @michaeljohnchapman8772
    @michaeljohnchapman8772 Před 3 měsíci +5

    An aquaintance of mine [now deceased] knew James Dean in Greenwich Village and he revealed to me that Dean was gay.

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      Lol...sure sure.

  • @jeanniemiller3146
    @jeanniemiller3146 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Good quality video! Thank you!

  • @pmajudge
    @pmajudge Před 2 měsíci +6

    R.I.P. TO JAMES DEAN. & NATLIE WOOD / NICK ADAMS/ SAL MINEO. IT WAS ALL A CONNECTED SAD FATE !! AAAWW! PIER ANGELLI R.I.P. THE WOULD BE BRIDE OF JAMES DEAN. FROM, U.K. (2024).

    • @lf9341
      @lf9341 Před 12 dny

      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

  • @maryjoymath3545
    @maryjoymath3545 Před 2 měsíci

    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!!!💞💞🙃💞💞

  • @CathyCorriher-jb1ot
    @CathyCorriher-jb1ot Před měsícem

    So sad he died so young yet never had a happy childhood or life, for that matter.
    RIP James Dean....you were a true iconic actor.