Tag: James Dean

• Both were doomed

  

  Pier Angeli mystery death Pier Angeli was a sweetheart. James Dean loved her. Kirk Douglas loved her, as did singer Vic Damone, Italian film composer Armando Trovajoli, and Paul Newman. “The most beautiful Italian actress of the century,” Paul Newman said. “She was an extremely complex and gifted woman.” In the 1956 boxing movie Somebody…

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  September 9, 2023

  HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDIES

  ‘Somebody Up There Likes Me’, Drug overdose, James Dean, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Suicide

• Famous movie car chases: Bullitt vs French Connection

  

  Another contender — Gene Hackman’s Popeye Doyle driving a Pontiac LeMans in pursuit of an el-train in ‘The French Connection.’

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  February 3, 2021

  FAMOUS MOVIE CAR CHASES

  1971 Pontiac LeMans, ‘The French Connection’, Bill Hickman, Bud Ekins, Bullitt, Dodge Charger, Ford Mustang GT Fastback, Gene Hackman, James Dean, Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, William Friedkin

• James Dean warned of death crash by Alec Guinness

  

  The brief spectacular life of James Dean ended on a northern California road when a local boy, Donald Turnupseed, made an illegal left turn in front of Dean’s Porsche.

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  September 30, 2020

  FAMOUS ACTOR DEATHS

  Alec Guinness, California Highway Patrol, Donald Turnupseed, James Dean, Porsche Spyder, Rolf Wutherich

• Sal Mineo, the second victim of the Rebel’s curse

  

  Sal Mineo was stabbed to death as he walked to his West Hollywood apartment after a play rehearsal. A man jumped out of the shadows and plunged a knife into the actor’s heart. Sal Mineo was 37.

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  February 12, 2020

  ACTOR DEATHS

  ’Rebel Without a Cause’, Christopher Walken, Donald Turnupseed, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Rolf Wutherich, Sal Mineo