"After she left, Nick described in his laconic way how they were quickly attracted to each other when he interviewed her for the part in
Rebel Without a Cause: and he seemed offhandedly proud of having taken her virginity."
He made just three films, East of Eden,
Rebel Without A Cause and Giant, before he died in a car smash.
Russell's Stupid Kids takes most of its plot and its atmosphere of hormonal overdrive directly from the classic teen-angst movie
Rebel Without a Cause. Jim Stark, the James Dean character (James Carpinello), is the surly new kid in town who has eyes for Judy, the Natalie Wood role (Shannon Burkett), whose boyfriend, Buzz, is Big Man on Campus at Joe McCarthy High.
On view are such famous rides as the Batmobile, the Munsters' Koach, and James Dean's
Rebel Without a Cause car.
When he screamed "You're tearing me apart!" to his doting but bickering parents in the film
Rebel Without a Cause, a whole generation knew just what he meant.
The 24-year-old was never rewarded for his most memorable role as Jim Stark in
Rebel Without A Cause.