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James Dean’s gay companion blackmailed actor into paying him off to store relationship a secret: book
James Dean was allegedly blackmailed by a former queer lover who threatened to out the actor before his big break into Hollywood, according to a new book.
Author Jason Colavito details the harrowing relationship drama between Dean and Rogers Brackett in his new book, “Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean,” the Daily Mail reported on Friday.
According to Colavito, Brackett pressured Dean into paying him $800 in 1954 just days before the premiere of the actor’s 1955 film, “East of Eden.” The agreement has allegedly remained a secret for seven decades.
The storyteller claims that Dean forked over the money, despite his belief that Brackett had sexually exploited him during their year-long affair.
Brackett believed that Dean owed him since Brackett allegedly paid $450 in hotel bills and more than $700 on gifts and loans for the actor when he was living in poverty in New York. Brackett had also introduced Dean to many important people in the film industry and helped him gain achievement in his career.
Brackett, who had lost his advertising job and wa
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Late in the evening on September 30, 1955, screenwriter William Bast sat at his typewriter in his cramped L.A. apartment surrounded by suitcases, banging out a movie outline. The next morning, he planned to carry those suitcases out to Sherman Oaks, where James Dean, his top friend and onetime girlfriend, had invited him to move in together in a large rented dwelling. As Bast told the story decades later, after a long, confusing courtship, full of starts and stops, denials and doubts, Dean wanted them to live together as partners and lovers, not just as friends. Around sunset, the phone rang with the news that Dean, just 24, was dead—killed when his Porsche collided with another car in the California desert. Bast dropped the phone and fell out of his chair, blacking out at the news. For half a century after, he carefully guarded Dean’s reputation, forcefully denying increasingly insistent rumors about the sexuality of the most renowned movie star in the world and the idol of millions. In death, Dean would become the perfect celebrity—a silent one—onto whom generations could venture their fantasies and themselves.
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James Dean
James Dean was a classic Hollywood actor whose career, although short, left a lasting impression on Hollywood and the hearts of millions.
James Byron Dean was born in Indiana in 1931, but moved to California when he was six years old. He had a tough childhood, and was sent back to Indiana to live with his sister and brother-in-law in 1940 when his mother died. While there, James was raised Quaker and helped out with the farm and household chores. During high school, James excelled in basketball, as well as drama and debate, and won several state titles for his efforts.
Even though he had adjusted to rural living, James picked up his life after graduating in 1949, and moved to Los Angeles with the intention of attending Santa Monica City College to major in pre-law. After earning low marks in his pre-law classes, he soon realized that his true talents were in acting. James soon transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles.
He got his first break in a low role on the television drama, Hill Number One (1951) . His career didn’t take off right away as he had hoped, so he took odd jobs to receive himself to as many auditions as he could. He landed smal
James Dean Biopic About Star’s Purported Homosexual Romance Finds Its Lead (Exclusive)
The planned biopic focusing on James Dean‘s personal life has landed its steer actor.
Brandon Flynn, famous for True Detective and 13 Reasons Why, has been cast as the late legendary thespian in the highlight Willie and Jimmy Dean, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. Writer-director Guy Guido’s film is currently in growth and is based on William Bast’s 2006 memoir, Surviving James Dean.
In his guide, Bast described gathering Dean at the UCLA theater program at the age of 19 and wrote that the two men became roommates, close friends and eventually lovers. Bast claimed they kept their fling private to elude hurting Dean’s career while the rising star had relationships with female stars, with Bast remaining hopeful that he and Dean would soon live together again. Five years after meeting Bast, Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, with two of his signature films, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, released posthumously.
Guido’s script is set from the first rendezvous between Bill Bast and Dean to the actor