An English
book of Roy Schatt
Title:
James
Dean, a portrait
1982
ISBN:
0-283-98877-0
Text
at the back:
Exclusive:
James Dean Photographer
Few
people really knew James Dean, and only his close friends
knew
of his desire to become a photographer.
In James
Dean: A PORTRAIT,
photographer
Roy Schatt tells the story
of the
very special friendship between himself andDean,
who
asked Schatt to teach him the art.
The
remarkable photographs taken by Dean during this
extraordinary
apprenticeship are published
for
the first time in this volume,
along
with Schatt's exclusieve photographs of the actor.
Book
2
This
is a German book of Wolfgang Fuchs
Title:
James
Dean, Spuren eines giganten
1986
ISBN:
3-8228-0034-1
(with
a free poster!)
Text
at the back:
There
is no actor, who gave us (especially the young people), with only 3 movies,
the
perfect idea of the living in the fifties!
He only
had a short life, but his images are still here!
The
tracks of a giant!
Book
3
A Dutch
book of John Howlett (translated by Ruth Visser)
Title:
James
Dean, een onsterfelijke rebel
1986
ISBN:
90-6213-862-4
Text
at the back:
James
Dean was only 24 years old when he had a deadly car-accident (in his silver-colored
Porche) on the highway 99 .
It was
happened in 1955 and at that moment he had only made three movies:
"East
of Eden", "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Giant", but those movies made him
allready a legend. His early dead -which a lot of people could not believe-
caused an unknown hysterie.
Now,
more than 30 years later, James Dean is still an idol. In James Dean -een
onsterfelijke rebel- you can read his short, but movie life. James Howlett
spoke with actors and directors, who worked with Dean and the people who
knew him. The result is an exclusive biography, a study behind the myth
which survived allready 2 centuries and did not loose his glamour and mystics.
James Dean said: "If a man can survive the gap between life and death,
and he still lives on after his death, he probably was a big man!"
Dean
was that kind of man!
Book
4
A reading
book written by Edna Ferber
(translated
by H.C.E de Wit- Boonacker)
Title:
Giant
-Een
Vreemdelinge in Eigen Huis-
1986
ISBN:
90 225 0622 3
Text
at the back:
Leslie
Benedict (young wife of the rich man Bick Benedict) comes to the big Reata
Ranch in Texas. In the next years she learns a lot about this huge land
and his proud citizens.
In the
beginning she is surprised by the big amount of rooms in one house, the
sky-divers, all the acres ground, herds,
lots
of Mexican workers and the powerful real men,
owners
of all those wealth.
Leslie
is not very welcomed by the sister of Bick, the strange Luz, who does not
like to share the householding.
She
also get to know Jett Rink, a poor and embittered young man, who deeply
fell in love with her.
When
there is found some oil on his piece of ground, Rink is suddenly a rich
man! Now he realy doesn't know how to cope with Leslie, his money and himself.
Leslie
learns to get to know the Mexican people. She learns to know their obsessions
about being number one
(in
their dreams and in their lives)
Leslie
keeps her strenght in her greatest love for Bick.
After
this novel the movie 'Giant' is made with the actors:
James
Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor.
That's
it!
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