Sal Mineo was nominated twice, for Rebel Without a Cause at seventeen and Exodus, and played Plato in the first, a character generally read as the earliest gay teenager in a Hollywood film. He was murdered outside his apartment in 1976 at thirty-seven in a robbery unrelated to his private life.
Carroll BakerGiant (1956) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Three hours and twenty-one minutes of Texas across roughly twenty-five years, James Dean's last completed performance, and a film that starts as a marriage drama and ends as an…
James DeanNicholas Ray's 1955 James Dean defining role. Chickie run, planetarium, foundation of every teen film since.
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