DEAN, James.
James Dean Signed 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School Yearbook.
Rare 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School Yearbook Signed by American Cultural Icon James Dean
Fairmount, Indiana: Published by the Journalism Department, 1949.
$4,200.00
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Item Number: RRB-149915
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Rare original 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School yearbook signed by James Dean. Imperial octavo, original gold faux-leather embossed binding with "Black & Gold '49", title page vignette, frontispiece, unpaginated, with black and white photographs throughout. Signed by James Dean in pencil above his photograph on The Debate Club page. By all accounts, the teenage James Dean was a hardworking student and well-liked among his peers. This copy is signed "Jim Dean" next to a mention of his traveling to Longmont, CO for the National Forensic League's national championship, where he placed sixth in Dramatic Declamation with a performance of Charles Dickens's "A Madman's Manuscript." Dean is also pictured separately in uniform as guard for the Fairmount Quakers basketball team and in costume as Frankenstein's monster in a performance which "grotesquely 'scared the wits' out of the audience." A touching view of the small Hoosier community that raised one of Hollywood's most iconic figures. In near fine condition with rubbing and thumb soiling.
American actor James Dean is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). After his death in a car crash on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California, Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.
James Dean Signed 1949 Black and Gold Fairmount High School Yearbook.
$4,200.00
In Stock
