While living in New York, Dean first shot a small part on weekly programs. Shooting live for NBC and CBS. He appeared twice on Broadway and had a one line part in “Ten-Thousand Horses Singing.” In this show he played an elevator boy who said, “This is the lobby.” Jimmy was then known being very ambitious he was once quoted as saying, “I’m going to make it. I’m going to be famous. I don’t care what I have to get there.” But, Dean didn’t have to do much.

Jimmy’s attitude probably carried him the farthest. Everyone he knew either loved him or hated him, there was no in between. Dennis Hopper said, “Jimmy was the most creative person I ever knew… He was twenty years ahead of his time.” John Peyster was also quoted saying “If you knew your job, Jimmy respected you and gave no trouble it was a pleasure to direct him.” Although this wasn’t always the case, Jimmy also had a dark side towards people. Dean was known as b

Kerr, John. “James Dean, TV actor” American Legends. 29 Nov. 2001 http://www.americanlegends.com/Interviews/kerr.html.

Hackady, Hal. “James Dean in New York” American Legends. 29 Nov. 2001

His death was front-page news. While most of the nation mourned his death others would not let him die. Rumors were spread that he “was disfigured, but still alive.” Others said that the actor “was in hiding while learning to operetta his artificial limbs” or that he was put in a sanitarium. He was getting thousands of fan mail letters addressed to the dead star. “Dean was known as a nonconformist- a rebel who had taken Hollywood by storm and who did as he pleased.” Dean was none other than “an outsider, a loner, he was the antithesis of everything a well-behaved youth was supposed to be his portrayals symbolized the rebelliousness of adolescence.” Teens could identify with him because he understood what they were going through. He was no more that a child himself when he died, he was twenty-four. So he remembered how teen life was. Some say he never grew-up, others, that he didn’t have to. It is believed that in a way teens were living through him, he could do what they wanted to do and not get in trouble for it.

29 Nov. 2001 http://www.americanlegends.com/jamesdean/facts/lastride.html.

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