Jim Stark
Search results
Nov 24, 2011 · But between the time Wood interviewed with director Nicholas Ray, 44, and did a screen test, they’d become lovers rendezvousing in a Chateau Marmont bungalow.
Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, and Nicholas Ray were nominated for Academy Awards for their roles in Rebel Without a Cause, which grossed $7,197,000 (equivalent to $81.9 million in 2023) in domestic and overseas screenings, making it Warner Bros.' second-biggest box-office draw that year.
Rebel Without a Cause: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus. A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
- Nicholas Ray
- 2 min
- IT’S BASED ON A REAL TEEN CRIMINAL. The story of the making of Rebel Without a Cause actually goes back nearly a decade before it arrived in theaters in 1955, to a book of the same name by Dr. Robert Lindner.
- AN EARLY DRAFT WAS WRITTEN BY DR. SEUSS. In the years before Ray came aboard with his own pitch for The Blind Run, Rebel Without a Cause went through Warner Bros.’
- IT WAS ALMOST A MARLON BRANDO VEHICLE. Warner Bros. went through several drafts of this early version of Rebel Without a Cause between from 1946 through 1949, and while the film never got off the ground during that period, the studio did at one point feel they were far enough along in the development process to consider a star for the project.
- THE SCREENPLAY HAS AN INTERESTING MIX OF INFLUENCES. As the writing process for the Rebel Without a Cause screenplay (the studio ultimately insisted on that title instead of Ray’s preferred The Blind Run) got underway, Ray and Warner Bros.
May 21, 2020 · Exploited as a teenager into a sexual liaison with 42-year-old director Nicholas Ray to prove that she could play a “bad” girl in Rebel Without a Cause.
- Suzanne Finstad
Mar 19, 2024 · Directed by Nicholas Ray and released in 1955, Rebel Without a Cause captures the essence of teenage angst and disillusionment in post-war America. Starring the iconic James Dean , Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo, it tells the story of Jim Stark (Dean), a troubled youth struggling to find his place in a society he sees as hypocritical and devoid of ...
People also ask
Who was natlaie wood?
What happened to Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood?
Who is Natalie Wood?
Who are Ray's parents?
Nov 18, 2011 · By now Wood was making headlines, dating a string of older men, including, it is alleged, the 43-year-old director of Rebel Without A Cause, Nicholas Ray.
