JIMMYLIVES.

"The banks of flowers covering the grave were muted and grayed by the coming of evening and had yielded up their color to the sunset. I thought — here’s where he belongs — with this big darkening sky and this air that is thirst-quenching as mountain water and this century of family around him and the cornfield crowding the meadow where his presence will be marked. But he’s not in the meadow. He’s out there in the corn. He’s hunting the winter’s rabbit and the summer’s catfish. He has a hand on little Mark’s shoulder and a sudden kiss for you. And he has my laughter echoing his own at the great big jokes he saw and showed to me — and he’s here, living and vivid and unforgettable forever, far too mischievous to lie down long."

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“He seemed to capture that moment of youth, that moment where we’re all desperately seeking to find ourselves.”

— Dennis Hopper

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Geraldine Page remembers Dean’s “tremendous intensity and curiosity about people–always fascinated by everything around him. Most people would be frightened by this kind of intensity. He made people look at themselves and not like what they saw. Unless you kind of welcomed that look at yourself, because it gave you a chance to reassess yourself, Jimmy was a very uncomfortable person to be around.”

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James Dean was nominated for an Oscar for “Best Actor in a Leading Role” for two consecutive years (East of Eden, 1955 & Giant 1956). His nomination in 1955 was the first posthumous acting nomination in Academy Awards history. 

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hey, I'm new to James Dean and stumbled across your blog, which by the way I love ♥♥ just wanted to ask whether he ever married?

Ooo, welcome and prepare for serious obsession to follow.

No, James Dean never had the chance to marry. He had several relationships, one of his strongest with Pier Angeli, but they were never long lived. Close friends have quoted him saying he always wanted to get married but he just never found the one in his short years.

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“We were like Romeo and Juliet, together and inseparable. Sometimes on the beach we loved each other so much we just wanted to walk together into the sea holding hands because we knew then that we would always be together.

It wasn’t that we wanted to commit suicide. We loved our life, and it was just that we wanted to be that close to each other always. ”-Pier Angeli

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“Everything about Pier is beautiful, especially her soul. She doesn’t have to be all gussied up. She doesn’t have to do or say anything. She’s just wonderful the way she is. She has a rare insight into life”. - James Dean

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James Dean’s letter to Barbara Glenn. 

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“But I think, if you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you, and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there. If you start accepting the world, letting things happen to you, around you, things will happen like you never dreamed they’d happen.” -James Dean

Happy Birthday, James Dean. February 8, 1931-September 30, 1955,

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“I want to live as intensely as I can. Be as useful and helpful to others as possible, for one thing. But live for myself as well. I want to feel things and experiences right down to their roots … enjoy the good in life while it is good.” -James Dean

             Happy Birthday, Jimmy Dean! We love you.

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James Dean on his Triumph, captured by Phil Stern.

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James Dean & singer Toni Lee, photographed by Phil Stern.

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 "If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.” -James Dean

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Abra: But you must give him some sign, Mr. Trask, some sign that you love him… or he’ll never be a man. All his life he’ll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.