Table of Contents
Foreword George Stevens Jr. ix
Introduction: Rescued Memories xiii
1 James Dean-The Boy I Loved Emma Woolen Dean 1
2 "My Jim Is a Tough Boy to Understand": James Dean's Father Talks About His Son Richard Moore 9
3 My Case Study James Dean 13
4 Grant County's Own Adeline Nail as told to Val Holley 15
5 The Man Who Would Be 50: A Memory of James Dean Mrs. Gene Nielson Owen 29
6 There Was a Boy… William Bast 33
7 There Was a Boy… Part II William Bast 44
8 There Was a Boy… Part IIII William Bast 55
9 The Great White Way John Gilmore 66
10 Blindside John Gilmore 93
11 Almost Married Jimmy Dean Beverly Wills as told to Helen Weller 108
12 James Dean at UCLA James Bellah interviewed Ronald Martinetti 116
13 James Dean, The Hungry Matador Peter L. Winkler 119
14 Life with Rogers: James Dean's Gay Mentor Tells All Ronald Martinetti 127
15 In Memory Of Jimmy Elizabeth Sheridan 138
16 What Jimmy Dean Believed Jack Shafer 150
17 The Little Prince Frank Corsaro 152
18 Bottle, Bottle, Who's Got The Bottle? Hume Cronyn 155
19 Drawing Blood Shelley Winters 159
20 A Serpent in Eden Elia Kazan 163
21 Just Lousy With Rapport Raymond Massey 170
22 Demon Dean Sidney Skolsky 175
23 "I Was James Dean's Black Madonna!" Vampira as told to Robert Rees 183
24 Kindred Spirits Eartha Kitt 189
25 When James Dean Charmed the Gossip Queen Hedda Hopper James Brough 197
26 James Dean: Rebel with a Cause Joe Hyams 209
27 Romeo and Juliet in Burbank Peter L. Winkler 226
28 A Kind Of Loving Toni Lee Scott Curt Gentry 232
29 Jimmy Dean: Giant Legend, Cult Rebel Leonard Rosenman 239
30 Chickie Run on the Sunset Strip Shelley Winters 242
31 James Dean: The Actor as a Young Man Nicholas Ray 246
32 James Dean Jim Backus 261
33 You Haven't Heard the Half About Jimmy! Natalie Wood 268
34 A Tenderness Lost George Stevens 278
35 Trapped in Marfa Mercedes McCambridge 285
36 The James Dean I Knew Bob Hinkle 294
37 Some Unsentimental Memories of James Dean by Rock Hudson Ray Loynd 298
38 This Was My Friend Jimmy Dean Mike Connolly 301
39 Along Came a Spyder Alec Guinness 315
40 The Rebel and the Mogul Dore Senary 315
41 The Assignment I'll Never Forget: Jimmy Dean Sanford H. Roth 317
42 Death Drive Rolf Wiitherich 321
Epitaph 329
Acknowledgments 331
Credits and Permissions 333
Bibliography 337
Index 341