James Dean Facts
James Dean Facts
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| James Dean had said he didn't expect to live past 30. He was racing cars professionally when he wasn't acting. |
| James Dean was a champion pole vaulter when he was a teenager in high school. |
| James Dean starred in his first Broadway show See the Jaguar in 1952, but it closed after 6 days. |
| There were a lot of rumors that James Dean had a relationship with men as well as women throughout his career. |
| James Dean dated Liz Sheridan at one time, the actress who went on to play Jerry Seinfeld's mother on Seinfeld. |
| When James Dean was a child he had an accident in a barn and knocked out his front teeth. He had to wear a dental bridge and as an adult used to prank people by putting his bridge in their drinking glass. |
| The last time that James Dean signed his name was on a speeding ticket he got a week before he died in a car accident. |
| While filming the movie Giant, James Dean was banned from doing any race car driving. |
| James Dean became interested in car racing when his minister took him to the Indy 500 when he was just a child. |
| James Dean filmed Rebel Without a Cause in 1955, which would go on to become his most famous role. He died before it was released. In the movie he played Jim Stark, a troubled teenager. |
| James Dean was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Foreign Actor for Rebel Without a Cause. He was also nominated for an Oscar for his role. |
| James Dean was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Giant after he died. |
| In 1956 James Dean won a Golden Globe Best Motion Picture Actor for his role in the movie East of Eden. He also won a Jussi Award Best Foreign Actor in 1956 for this role. |
| James Dean figured he would one day be bored with acting and move on to directing films instead. |
| James Dean role model was admittedly Marlon Brando. |
| James Dean could play the bongo drums. |
| When the movie East of Eden was released in preview girls were so crazy about James Dean that they would scream whenever he appeared on the screen. |
| James Dean died in a head on collision on September 30th, 1955. |
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