James Dean, a visionary and brilliant, charismatic actor died in a horrific car crash on this day, seventy years ago. He only made three films. Incredible as "East of Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant" are, he left behind a huge body of work in TV. During the early 50s, Dean started getting roles in TV dramas, and, according to tonight's TCM broadcast of a formerly lost, but now restored teledrama called "Life Sentence," Dean's performances were getting noticed by teens, who would send him tons of fan mail. How does James Dean fit in with my father's career? Well, being that Dad worked with most every famous actor and actress out there, he casually mentioned once that he worked with Dean on one such drama. He said Dean was intense, SCARILY intense, and Dad could see that the actor was supremely gifted. Now for the title of this drama..well, that one, so far has eluded me. Dad, with all the productions he was constantly working on, did not know the name of this Dean one. And to this DAY, I cannot find anything that they did together, either on Google, or by watching the James Dean on TV DVD gift set I have. I thought it would be interesting to see what Google/ AI came up with when I punched their names into the search engine. Hilarity ensued. I mean it's pretty accurate, but I still don't know the title....
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