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![]() While Dean's popularity endures, to many he remains as inscrutable as ever. In the five decades since, hundreds of books have been written about the actor and numerous film biographies and documentaries produced, all purporting to tell the true story behind the legend. Movie magazines and gossip columnists clamored for intimate details of his personal life, while fans lined up to pay to see the wrecked Porsche Spyder in which he died. With the posthumous release of his next two films ( Rebel Without a Cause, a month after his death, and Giant, the following year) Dean's impact on post-World War II young people was so powerful that fan worship reached near-epidemic proportions. Dean had been famous in life for less than six months. When the 24-year-old actor died in a car accident in Cholame, Calif., on September 30, 1955, only one of his three major films, East of Eden, had been released. The cult following of James Dean is one of the most unusual and enduring in the annals of film. ![]()
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