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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 died at 24 in a horror crash but his legacy went on. The place where he died is full of messages from people who still cherish the actor ...

The planned biopic focusing on James Dean’s personal life has landed its lead actor. Brandon Flynn, known for True Detective and 13 Reasons Why, has been cast as the late legendary actor in the ...

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… ...

As first noted by film journalist and historian Mark Harris on Bluesky, the last actor to achieve this feat was James Dean, who was posthumously nominated in back-to-back years for 1955’s period ...