At two o'clock in the morning of’ 8 February 1931, It was a Sunday, He was born in Marion (Indiana) one child 3 pounds and 600 grams, named James Byron Dean. His parents were Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. In the 1930s the family Dean changes several times home, before he moved to Fairmount, in 1933, then in Los Angeles in 1936 where his father got a job at the Sawtelle Veterans Hospital. In 1940 Mildred died of ovarian cancer. The father sent the little James by train to Fairmount with his wife's casket. It is said that at every stop James come down from passenger wagon to go the train car where it was placed the coffin of his mother to check it was still there. It was hosted by his uncles and 1947, in the second year of Fairmount High School, got her first major role in comedy Mooncalf Mugford. The 1949 It was an important year. He won first prize in a competition of the National Forensic League State for dramatic declamzione with the monologue The manuscript of a madman of Dickens. He graduated from. the 31 may moved to California where he rose to the father who in the meantime had married again. In August he was given by his father his first car: Chevy 1939. In 1950 He worked as an athletic instructor at a military Academy in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, he enrolled at UCLA. Her first professional role, or paid, for the consideration of 30 dollars I felt to make the appearance in a commercial of Pepsi-Cola. The following year he left the University, She appeared in a bit part player the apostle John in Hill Number One. The girls of the parish founded the only fan club in his honor with him alive, The immaculate Heart James Dean Appreciation Society. He found a small part in The Capitalist by Douglas Sirk. He attended for several months the Actors Studio. In 1954 opened on Broadway with The Immoralist by Gide. A few weeks after he took a major part in Lavalle of Eden by Elia Kazan. During the making of the film had its most important love affair with the Italian actress Anna Maria Pierangeli. Relationship opposed by the mother of her. In fact, a few months after she married the singer Vic Damone. It is said that James positioned himself at the exit of the church doing roaring on the engine of his bike. The first half of 1955 saw him busy on the set of the two films Rebel and The Giant. In July he made a commercial for road safety, and in August, show up for the first time at a Hollywood party with a young actress Ursula Andress. A month later he bought a Porche 550 Spider, nine days later he lost his life in a race in Cholame. He was a boy of few words, It is said that he loved writing and fantasticasse a future as a writer. Loved her look with a beard of a few days, the unkempt hair and patched clothes. Sad eyes hiding behind sunglasses at night. It was a messy type, He said that his house was a basket with walls around. He kept the money in socks rolled up in the closet. He ate bad. He loved to surprise the audience, go over the script, create your very own character every time. James Dean went over, so much that it looks like its always go after her life his legend.
Hector Parker
