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7 unusual facts about Rebel Without a Cause


El Cabrillo

After Warner died in 1984, the building's owner cleaned out the basement and inadvertently threw out some of Warner's possessions, including James Dean's boots from Rebel Without a Cause and Marlon Brando's leather jacket from The Wild One.

Excorporation

In the 1950s, denim became a popular garment that symbolized rebellion, such as in James Dean’s movie Rebel Without a Cause.

Jim Stärk

The band's name alludes to the character Jim Stark portrayed by James Dean in the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause.

Norbert Smith – a Life

Although the title hints at Rebel Without a Cause, this excerpt is more a parody of pre-war British films, with a strong moralising tone, and possibly with a touch of The Blue Lamp.

Raggare

Popular sources of influence are elements from American popular culture of the 1950s, such as the movies Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean, and American Graffiti.

The True Story of Jesse James

Shortly after his success with 1955's Rebel Without a Cause, Ray was hired to direct this movie based on Jesse James' later life.

William O. Wallace

He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956.


Gordon Mirams

After the release of the Mazengarb Report on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents in 1954, Mirams responded to community fears about juvenile delinquency by banning The Wild One starring Marlon Brando and Rebel Without A Cause starring James Dean.

Moss Mabry

One of his most iconic designs was the red jacket sported by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

The Honeydrips

The track "Fall From A Height" from Here Comes The Future samples quotes from Annie Hall, when the little Woody Allen talks about the expansion of the universe, and Rebel Without a Cause.


see also

Leonard Rosenman

In 1995 Nonesuch Records issued an album of music from both "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without A Cause" by the London Sinfonietta conducted by John Adams.