Gary Saderup Celebrity Charcoals
Size: 20"W x 24"H
Description:
Name: James Dean
D.O.B: 8 February 1931
Your favourite stars of yesterday and today dramatically captured with charcoal
on canvas-textured background.
About: James Dean was raised on a farm by his
aunt and uncle in Fairmount, Indiana. He received rave reviews for his work as
the blackmailing Arab boy in the New York production of Gide's The Immoralist,
good enough to earn him a trip to Hollywood. His early film efforts were
strictly bit parts: a sailor in the Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis overly frantic
musical comedy Sailor Beware (1952); a GI in Samuel Fuller's moody study of a
platoon in the Korean War, Fixed Bayonets! (1951) ; a youth in the Piper
Laurie-Rock Hudson comedy Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952). He had major roles in
only three movies. In the Elia Kazan production of John Steinbeck's East of Eden
(1955) he played Caleb, the "bad" brother who couldn't force affection from his
stiff-necked father. His true starring role, the one which fixed his image
forever in American culture, was that of the brooding red-jacketed teenager Jim
Stark in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1955). George Stevens' filming of
Edna Ferber's Giant (1956), in which he played the non-conforming cowhand Jett
Rink, was just coming to a close when Dean, driving his Porsche Spyder, collided
with another car in Cholame, California. He had received a speeding ticket just
two hours before. His very brief career, violent death and highly publicized
funeral transformed him into a cult object of apparently timeless fascination.
