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Happy 82nd Birthday, James Dean! (Feb. 8, 1931 - Sept. 30, 1955)

I liken it to a kind of star or a comet that fell through the sky, and everybody still talks about it. They say, ‘Ah! Remember that night when you saw that shooting star?’ That was it. I mean he had that enormous appeal and magic. - Julie Harris

Jimmy in my eyes was the prime example of the new type of American. A leader of a new way of living, way of thinking, way of behaving, a way of dressing. Anyone who knew him well, and I believe I did, knew that he could make you feel as if anything were possible. - Pier Angeli

He didn’t show you very much. He’d challenge you to find him. Then when you’d found him, he’d still make you guess. It was an endless game with him. The thing people missed about Jimmy was his mischievousness. He was the most constantly mischievous person I think I’ve ever met. Full of tricks, full of magic, full of outrageousness. - Stewart Stern

All of us were touched by Jimmy and he was touched by greatness. - Natalie Wood

I’ve often speculated that Jimmy’s preoccupation with the drums was more an interest in sound, than in the instrument itself; drums, motorcycles, sports cars - all vibrated with a powerfull sound to which he responded.- Dennis Stock

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James Dean playing records in his aunt and uncle’s basement in Indiana, 1955. Photo by Dennis Stock for Life magazine

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– From For James Dean, by Frank O’Hara.

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