favourite summertime films » East of Eden (1955)

“It’s awful not to be loved. It’s the worst thing in the world. Don’t ask me how I know that, I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that’s the way Cal has always felt, all his life. I know you didn’t mean it to be that way - but it’s true. You never gave him your love. You never asked him for his. You never asked him for one thing.” 

For simplicityarttt

missavagardner:

James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause photographed by Bob Willoughby

Hedda Hopper: You’ve got a long and beautiful life ahead of you.
James Dean: I hope the second adjective is the more abundant.

Hollywood, March 1955

jamesdeandaily:

When director Gary Legon found this screen test of James Dean and Joanne Woodward (for East of Eden), he knew he wanted to use it in his documentary, The Real James Dean. However he felt the need to ask Woodward’s permission first, since is was a rather “sexy scene” and she was, of course, married to Paul Newman, and they had children and such… Legon wasn’t sure if maybe this screen test would be embarrassing for her.  So he wrote to Woodward about it, and she quickly wrote back, “Of course you can use this! This will be proof, finally, to my daughters, that I indeed had this incredible kiss with the late, great, James Dean!”

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