“Death,” Jimmy Dean said, “is the only thing I respect. It’s the only thing that has any dignity.” Strange words for a brilliantly successful young boy to utter, but the moods that evoked the words were stranger still. Before you read this third and final...
The writer worked with Jimmy Dean—and she’s all steamed up. But we’ll let her tell you why!...
I admire Bob Mitchum’s performance in the “Blood Alley” hassle because he didn’t blow a whistle. . . . The hardest gal in pictures to figure out is Leslie Caron. . . . Did you know there’s more smootching in drive-in theatres during a Grace...
Rumors from Hollywood celebrities . . ....
“I’m going to be a star” she announced. Seven-year-old Miss Koford wasn’t kidding!...
To mark that day, two years ago, when James Dean died, Photoplay pays tribute with the stories of two girls who knew him—one unknown, the other a star....
I love movies. If I didn’t, I’d be in some other business. Just the same, I dreaded going to the screening of “The James Dean Story.” I was invited to the first Hollywood showing, put on by the Screen Directors Guild. As you must know,...
Rumors from Hollywood celebrities...
It was during his early years in New York that Jimmy Dean found some of the answers to the self-doubts that tortured him. It was there that he started on the road that led to fame—and tragedy....
The current movie heroes are boys trying to do a man’s work. Most of them are adolescent, and this applies regardless of age. These heroes include boys who'd like to be men. Some play tough guys, like Paul Newman and Marlon Brando. Some are rebels...