"James Dean" was born February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana. After graduating from high school, he returned to California where he attended Santa Monica Junior College and UCLA. James Dean began acting with James Whitmore's acting workshop, appeared in occasional TV commercials, and played several roles in films and on-stage.

James Dean had one of the most spectacularly brief careers of any screen star. In just more than a year, and in only three films, Dean became a widely admired screen personality, a personification of the restless American youth of the mid-50's, and an embodiment of the title of one of his films, Rebel Without A Cause (1955).

En route to compete in a race in Salinas, James Dean was killed in a tragic highway accident on September 30,1955. His adulation by fans grew posthumously to legendary proportions. Many of them refused to accept his death and a James Dean cult developed into a mass mystique of a kind that surrounded the personality of no other star since Valentino.

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