Nearly seven decades ago, actor James Dean died in a fateful crash in a quiet part of San Luis Obispo County where Highways 41 and 46 meet. The short-lived movie star’s legacy on and off the ...

According to Colavito, the legacy of James Dean deserves more than the glossy, larger-than-life image built by Hollywood. Instead, we should look at the real man behind the myth.

Still, his legacy – as short as it was – still impresses, given the three movies he acted in were all classics in one way or another, and proved more than enough to turn James Dean into a ...

In a letter dated August 12, 1954, agent Jane Deacy sought to advise her client James Dean about his plans to marry his girlfriend, Pier Angeli. “I don’t know what to tell you,” Jane wrote ...

James Dean's last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell's Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn't the draw it once was.

Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the brutish ranch hand turned dissolute millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel “Giant.” ‘ She had imagined someone brawnier for the… ...

That actor was James Dean, who was nominated for Best Actor for two of his films that were released after his death, capping off his propulsive yet momentary three-film career.