Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 - June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well-regarded. Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "cinema is Nicholas Ray."
He was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in Galesville, Wisconsin. In his early years, he went to school and did a brief stint at the University of Chicago: here he was exposed to the media world through radio. Here he also met two men who inspired his move to films: Frank Lloyd Wright and dramatist Thornton Wilder, then a professor. Ray received a Taliesin Fellowship from Wright to study under him as an apprentice.
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Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to serious actress, dating the top names in Hollywood, her life and marriage to her husband, Robert Wagner,and her biggest fear that ended up being the cause of her death.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, actress, based-on-book, birthday-party, boat, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship
From child star to Hollywood legend.
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A biopic about the actor James Dean, whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life, most notably the difficult relationship with his father.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acting, acting-class, actor, actors-studio-new-york-city, actress, audition, aunt-nephew-relationship
The stars that burn brightest burn quickest
Forever Young.
Too fast to live. Too young to die.
James Dean: "I'm playing the drums! Go to hell!"
[about an audition]::Martin Landau: You never know. I mean look at me; when I tried out for "Tennesse Williams" I thought I was terrible.::James Dean: You were terrible... you didn't get the part::Martin Landau: Just a detail.
Winton Dean: That's a nice car.::James Dean: Yeah, it's alluminum. They only made 30.::Winton Dean: Must have cost a lot.::James Dean: Well, I got a lot.
James Dean: I need to talk to you.::Winton Dean: Ethel's waiting for me.::James Dean: Well, then why don't you let her wait.::Winton Dean: Now, hold on, young man. Don't take that attitude with me.::James Dean: No, I need to talk to you right now!::Winton Dean: But I don't have to...::James Dean: No, look! Everybody thinks I'm great except you!::Winton Dean: Well, fine, listen to them...::James Dean: Don't you read the papers? I'm in the papers! Everybody wants to meet me except you! Why? Why is that?::Winton Dean: The stupidest mistake you've ever made...::James Dean: Just shut up and listen to me! Why don't you talk to me? You're my father! [grabs his father's shirt] Please!::Winton Dean: I deserve some damn respect...::James Dean: Dad, I was 9 years old! 9 years old! Now open your mouth and talk to me!::Winton Dean: Just calm down.::James Dean: [grabbing his father] You talk to me! Dad, please! Talk to me, please!
Rolf Wütherich: See that piece on you in the LA Times?::James Dean: No, why? I get hammered?::Rolf Wütherich: [laughs] Opposite. They said you're gonna get bigger than Brando and Clift together. Can you believe it?::[They both laugh]
Rolf Wütherich: Watch that Ford. [car signals left-hand turn] He's turning left.::James Dean: He's gotta see us.
[last lines]::James Dean: I took the train right back to Indiana again. This time my father came with me.
Jack Warner: I love you and I hate you.::James Dean: I hate you and I hate you.