I read that Sal Mineo when he was older said at the time they did Rebel he was in love with James Dean but just didn't know it. And I personally am not sure what to make of Sal's statement that the day they filmed Plato's death, James Dean would position him exactly on the floor for that shot, but also he wouldn't let Sal out of his sight all day, as if he was afraid Sal was actually going to die. It sounds weird but I also think it's sweet that he felt that strongly and concerned for him.
@KidFabulous72 Many people thought the real reason why Sal was murdered because he was gay, but it wasn't the case. The person that did this to Sal was actually there to rob him which caused Sal's life; he was stabbed once in the heart. The killer was convicted of murder/robbery of Sal and 10 other robberies in the same area where Sal lived at.
They NEVER were lovers, Sal Mineo hisself saied they never did there fore saying any thing else is a LIE and dis respect BOTH James and Sal be cause it NEVER HAPPENED. iIt dosent matter if the people or gay or streight it IS a vicious lie when you lie about two DEAD PEOPLE.
@soljahsolrac How are they vicious lies? They may be incorrect, but vicious lies? They're only vicious lies if you believe being thought of as gay as something terrible or bad. If we ever get to a point in society where being gay is no big deal, then it shouldn't be a big deal if people suggest or hope someone else might be gay. People always like to hope/fantasize that attractive celebrities might "bat for their team" if you will. It's not slander if you're not homophobic.
COMPLETE VICIOUS LIES AND COMPLETLY NO PROOFF??-this is why ppl find it hard to get along with gay ppl -everything in there life is a revolution for there cause -as if they cant do whatever they want?as if they werent free, they want everyone to agree with there lifstyle soo bad they'll lie or do what ever it takes for every one in the world to accept them?!!No James Dean WAS NOT GAY-and if he was thats btween him and his creator-let da man-R.I.P.-
@nightstalkerck No I don't think so either, now 16, there's some word that he was sleeping with Natalie Wood at that time. But man ages didn't mean back then what they do now because Sal at 14 would take an unloaded gun onto trains when he went to audition as a form of protection. Never get away with that today.
In a business like that, man such as James Dean with handsome good looks, there would have been no doubt closeted gays that had been crushing on him. It's the same way today....it's a business to lure people in, and if an actor can suck in audiences of both sexes, that's the power of charisma. So what if Dean was gay, bi, or just fucking around with the public and media to play the guessing game? Isn't that the whole mysteriousness of Dean anyway?
Sal was also bisexual. He was engaged to his "Exodus" co-star Jill Hayworth. Even Courtney Burr, Sal's male lover in the last years of his life, said that Jill was the love of Sal's life, as far as women were concerned. Sal wasn't aware until the 60s that he was attracted to men. Dean was definitely bi, and there's nothing wrong with that. Great video, by the way.
Sal was gay, sure, On the set of Rebel he was in love with James Dean. Dean wouldn't give him the time of day because he was in love with Pier Angeli an Italian actress he met on the set of East of Eden. James Dean loved women, many of them, he was girl crazy. He just wasn't interested in men.
@DuNuful There have been many straight male actors who have succumbed to the "gay casting couch" to advance their careers and James Dean was one of them. Even John Lennon had relations with Brian Epstein so he could have more power over The Beatles and the decision making. John Travolta was known to coast the gay fantastic during the early part of his career, that's why homosexual rumors still dog him to this day.
@kalimaganeshshivan I just had to comment the Lennon part. Up to date, it is still not proved whether he and Epstein had a sexual affair (in Spain). I suppose it's due to Paul that this "holiday to have power" thing was established (though he doesn't personally think anything sexual happened between them). I don't know if they did. And if they actually did, I suppose it was just as much experimenting than anything else (if we take into consideration what Lennon himself has said).
@albuorkka Lennon did say that "he had to control the man that controlled the Beatles" , that's why he went with Epstein on that holiday. I'm not saying that Lennon was a homosexual, however he did love the Beatles and would do anything for them and if that meant having sex with their manager, then so be it and no one ever judged him.
@kalimaganeshshivan On the other hand, he was a close friend of Epstein's and has said that they had "almost a love affair". It's very possible that Lennon had some ulterior motives, but I doubt he would have "done" anything if he was completely repulsed by Brian. I don't think he was homosexual either, bi-curious, perhaps, considering all the remarks he made.
@albuorkka Personally, I think Mick Jagger turned him out, because Jagger was as ambi-sexual as they came and he didn't give a fuck who knew about it! LOL
The facts on Mineo & Dean's "relationship" is this- James Dean was open to trying just about anything(including gay intimacy) just for a thrill- some of this stemming from a man named Rodgers Bracket- a gay older man Dean hooked up with early to advance his career. It's never been proven by any evidence that he was "gay"- but he was probally "bisexual". Mineo, on the other hand, was a well-known(and self- acknowledged) homesexual actor in Hollywood.
Poor Natalie Wood, she was Hollywood's Go-To Gal for gay actors who wanted to keep it in the closet! She dated Rock Hudson, Raymond Burr, Montgomery Cliff and the man she ended up marrying, Robert Wagner. ALL of them were homosexuals!
@kalimaganeshshivan I don't think he is because he was with two women that didn't mind he indulged in having sex with men, that was Natalie Wood and Jill St. John.
@ForbiddenLove07 Furthermore, there have been many actors (and actresses) who were and are married, yet they're still in the closet. That's nothing new, especially in the entertainment business.
there is a lot of views on this relationship.wot i know is sal loved jimmy..admired him..but jim didnt want a relationship with him.but who knows.its their business anyway
No, there was nothing sexual between the two actors. Certainly, Sal, who was gay, could have had a sexual attraction to Mr. Dean--but if it happened it was one way. I think Mineo DID look up to Dean as a older brother and role model, though.
Nice video, accept that there is no evidence that James and Sal were anything more then friends and cast mates. Just cause they both liked boys doesn't mean they liked each other.
Sal could have 72years old if he was in this life.But he was murdered at 37.No matter we know he is alived and walking by the streets of NY.His bio by C.Burr is not easy to find but thx Goodboys 4 the help.
Who can really say for sure if Dean was gay or bi or hetero? There have been lots of people from back then who have said different things in regards to his sexuality. They all can't be right. We know Sal was gay because he was open about it late in his career. As noted here, I too have read that Sal told some interviewers that though he had a crush on Dean, they did not have an affair.
JAMES DEAN WAS NOT GAY,PIER ANGILE AND NATALIE WOOD,AND DENNIS HOPPER AND URASEL ANDRESS SAID THAT WAS A LIE THAT MARLON BRANDO SAID IT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO RUIN JAMES DEANS REPUTATION,TO ALL THE GAY GUYS OUT THERE JAMES DEAN WAS NOT GAY,GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
@rebelDean550 he was bi sexual or sexually experimenting, had crabs while filming, ect... i see documentaries, read books hOLLYWOOD BABYLON and the video that i need to find...
"I got a girl in every port - and a couple of guys in every port, too."
"He was, in a way, the first gay teenager in films. You watch it now, you know he had the hots for James Dean. You watch it now, and everyone knows about Jimmy, so it's like he had the hots for Natalie and me. Ergo, I had to be bumped off, out of the way."
Sal also shaved his chest. Slut. He was reported to have had a fondness for sadomasochistic ritual - "Sal had some strange tastes."
@omegaman59 "and it's obvious Plato has a crush on Jimmy, making Plato possibly the first gay teen in cinema history" , "Really liked it a lot, even though it was very homosexual and not particularly subtle about it. The acting is terrific, and James Dean and Sal Mineo are particularly good.", "Sal Mineo was good, but in a freaky way. ", READ NETFLIX REVIEWS ABOUT REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
@papiricoydelicioso: Read the book "Live Fast Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause" it will talk about this subject. If you remember the scene at the end when when Plato takes Jim's jacket, he holds it close to him and sniffs it - talk about being infatuated! Anyway love both James and Sal!!
I just finished reading the new Sal Mineo biography. According to Sal's long-term boyfriend, Courtney Burr, who he was seeing until his death, Sal stated he had great admiration for James Dean, but there was never a sexual relationship.
@GoodBoys79 Thank you very much for your comment, I would like to read this book, the problem is I am Spanish and if I can not find here in Spain and in Spanish.
@GoodBoys79 Thats right ... Sal had an"emotional connection" with James which persisted till Sal's tragic death in 1976. There was not a romance....much as Sal might have wanted one...
I never knew he was gay, not that it matters ive always enjoyed his acting just watched him on a episode of hawaii 50
kuriaki71 2 weeks ago
Whats the scene at 1:36, movie or picture?
dubedude11 4 weeks ago
@dubedude11 Movie
edupepona2010 4 weeks ago
@edupepona2010 which one?
dubedude11 4 weeks ago
@dubedude11 That scene is Sal Mineo and Don Johnson in the play "Fortune and Men's Eyes" in Los Angeles in 1969. Its a prison rape scene...
parisalan1 3 weeks ago
I read that Sal Mineo when he was older said at the time they did Rebel he was in love with James Dean but just didn't know it. And I personally am not sure what to make of Sal's statement that the day they filmed Plato's death, James Dean would position him exactly on the floor for that shot, but also he wouldn't let Sal out of his sight all day, as if he was afraid Sal was actually going to die. It sounds weird but I also think it's sweet that he felt that strongly and concerned for him.
TheBookWorm1718 1 month ago
I heard Elvis and Nick Admas did the same thing I highly doubt it though
JAKESVINTAGECLASSICS 1 month ago
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JAKESVINTAGECLASSICS 1 month ago
Video said Sal was murdered, was a reason why ever discovered?
KidFabulous72 2 months ago
@KidFabulous72 Many people thought the real reason why Sal was murdered because he was gay, but it wasn't the case. The person that did this to Sal was actually there to rob him which caused Sal's life; he was stabbed once in the heart. The killer was convicted of murder/robbery of Sal and 10 other robberies in the same area where Sal lived at.
deenage 1 month ago
just cuz some gay dude wants to f*** james dean, that does not make dean gay. geeze. get a life.
eckleburg22 2 months ago
They NEVER were lovers, Sal Mineo hisself saied they never did there fore saying any thing else is a LIE and dis respect BOTH James and Sal be cause it NEVER HAPPENED. iIt dosent matter if the people or gay or streight it IS a vicious lie when you lie about two DEAD PEOPLE.
rockinrobintweets 3 months ago
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goginski 3 months ago
@soljahsolrac How are they vicious lies? They may be incorrect, but vicious lies? They're only vicious lies if you believe being thought of as gay as something terrible or bad. If we ever get to a point in society where being gay is no big deal, then it shouldn't be a big deal if people suggest or hope someone else might be gay. People always like to hope/fantasize that attractive celebrities might "bat for their team" if you will. It's not slander if you're not homophobic.
chrismac2 3 months ago 9
@chrismac2 Hey, thanks. This needs to be screamed from the rooftops.
nauort23 2 months ago
@chrismac2 Great post, chrismac. Thanks for your thoughts.
jaytlr9 1 month ago
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COMPLETE VICIOUS LIES AND COMPLETLY NO PROOFF??-this is why ppl find it hard to get along with gay ppl -everything in there life is a revolution for there cause -as if they cant do whatever they want?as if they werent free, they want everyone to agree with there lifstyle soo bad they'll lie or do what ever it takes for every one in the world to accept them?!!No James Dean WAS NOT GAY-and if he was thats btween him and his creator-let da man-R.I.P.-
soljahsolrac 3 months ago
sal was only 15 while filming, rebal without a cause, i dont think james dean, would be having an affair with someone that young.
nightstalkerck 3 months ago 2
@nightstalkerck No I don't think so either, now 16, there's some word that he was sleeping with Natalie Wood at that time. But man ages didn't mean back then what they do now because Sal at 14 would take an unloaded gun onto trains when he went to audition as a form of protection. Never get away with that today.
TheBookWorm1718 1 month ago
If James Dean were still alive today he'd be 80-years-old now. Time sure does fly, doesn't it.
yowzephyr 3 months ago
In a business like that, man such as James Dean with handsome good looks, there would have been no doubt closeted gays that had been crushing on him. It's the same way today....it's a business to lure people in, and if an actor can suck in audiences of both sexes, that's the power of charisma. So what if Dean was gay, bi, or just fucking around with the public and media to play the guessing game? Isn't that the whole mysteriousness of Dean anyway?
KBeOKEH 4 months ago
I cannot express how much love I have for Dean. -.-
gamerdudepunk 4 months ago
Sal was also bisexual. He was engaged to his "Exodus" co-star Jill Hayworth. Even Courtney Burr, Sal's male lover in the last years of his life, said that Jill was the love of Sal's life, as far as women were concerned. Sal wasn't aware until the 60s that he was attracted to men. Dean was definitely bi, and there's nothing wrong with that. Great video, by the way.
Muirmaiden 4 months ago
James was bisexual
EdTV20 4 months ago
Sal was gay, sure, On the set of Rebel he was in love with James Dean. Dean wouldn't give him the time of day because he was in love with Pier Angeli an Italian actress he met on the set of East of Eden. James Dean loved women, many of them, he was girl crazy. He just wasn't interested in men.
DuNuful 5 months ago
@DuNuful There have been many straight male actors who have succumbed to the "gay casting couch" to advance their careers and James Dean was one of them. Even John Lennon had relations with Brian Epstein so he could have more power over The Beatles and the decision making. John Travolta was known to coast the gay fantastic during the early part of his career, that's why homosexual rumors still dog him to this day.
kalimaganeshshivan 4 months ago
@kalimaganeshshivan I just had to comment the Lennon part. Up to date, it is still not proved whether he and Epstein had a sexual affair (in Spain). I suppose it's due to Paul that this "holiday to have power" thing was established (though he doesn't personally think anything sexual happened between them). I don't know if they did. And if they actually did, I suppose it was just as much experimenting than anything else (if we take into consideration what Lennon himself has said).
albuorkka 4 months ago
@albuorkka Lennon did say that "he had to control the man that controlled the Beatles" , that's why he went with Epstein on that holiday. I'm not saying that Lennon was a homosexual, however he did love the Beatles and would do anything for them and if that meant having sex with their manager, then so be it and no one ever judged him.
kalimaganeshshivan 4 months ago
@kalimaganeshshivan On the other hand, he was a close friend of Epstein's and has said that they had "almost a love affair". It's very possible that Lennon had some ulterior motives, but I doubt he would have "done" anything if he was completely repulsed by Brian. I don't think he was homosexual either, bi-curious, perhaps, considering all the remarks he made.
albuorkka 4 months ago
@albuorkka Personally, I think Mick Jagger turned him out, because Jagger was as ambi-sexual as they came and he didn't give a fuck who knew about it! LOL
kalimaganeshshivan 4 months ago
The facts on Mineo & Dean's "relationship" is this- James Dean was open to trying just about anything(including gay intimacy) just for a thrill- some of this stemming from a man named Rodgers Bracket- a gay older man Dean hooked up with early to advance his career. It's never been proven by any evidence that he was "gay"- but he was probally "bisexual". Mineo, on the other hand, was a well-known(and self- acknowledged) homesexual actor in Hollywood.
gemini16th 5 months ago
Poor Natalie Wood, she was Hollywood's Go-To Gal for gay actors who wanted to keep it in the closet! She dated Rock Hudson, Raymond Burr, Montgomery Cliff and the man she ended up marrying, Robert Wagner. ALL of them were homosexuals!
kalimaganeshshivan 6 months ago
@kalimaganeshshivan Robert Wagner is not gay. He's married to an American actress named Jill St. John. Look it up.
ForbiddenLove07 4 months ago
@ForbiddenLove07 Robert Wagner himself, admitted to being gay back in the 60's and he was married to Natalie Wood during the time.
kalimaganeshshivan 4 months ago
@kalimaganeshshivan I don't think he is because he was with two women that didn't mind he indulged in having sex with men, that was Natalie Wood and Jill St. John.
kalimaganeshshivan 4 months ago
@ForbiddenLove07 Furthermore, there have been many actors (and actresses) who were and are married, yet they're still in the closet. That's nothing new, especially in the entertainment business.
kalimaganeshshivan 4 months ago
@kalimaganeshshivan True, but how do you know that Robert Wagner is 'still in the closet'?
ForbiddenLove07 4 months ago
there is a lot of views on this relationship.wot i know is sal loved jimmy..admired him..but jim didnt want a relationship with him.but who knows.its their business anyway
68rufus 6 months ago
No, there was nothing sexual between the two actors. Certainly, Sal, who was gay, could have had a sexual attraction to Mr. Dean--but if it happened it was one way. I think Mineo DID look up to Dean as a older brother and role model, though.
windstorm1000 6 months ago
Nice video, accept that there is no evidence that James and Sal were anything more then friends and cast mates. Just cause they both liked boys doesn't mean they liked each other.
Jaylecialee 6 months ago
<3 !
Super123derek 6 months ago
Sal could have 72years old if he was in this life.But he was murdered at 37.No matter we know he is alived and walking by the streets of NY.His bio by C.Burr is not easy to find but thx Goodboys 4 the help.
satyricon55 7 months ago
Who can really say for sure if Dean was gay or bi or hetero? There have been lots of people from back then who have said different things in regards to his sexuality. They all can't be right. We know Sal was gay because he was open about it late in his career. As noted here, I too have read that Sal told some interviewers that though he had a crush on Dean, they did not have an affair.
JubalCalif 7 months ago 4
JAMES DEAN WAS NOT GAY,PIER ANGILE AND NATALIE WOOD,AND DENNIS HOPPER AND URASEL ANDRESS SAID THAT WAS A LIE THAT MARLON BRANDO SAID IT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO RUIN JAMES DEANS REPUTATION,TO ALL THE GAY GUYS OUT THERE JAMES DEAN WAS NOT GAY,GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!
rebelDean550 7 months ago
@rebelDean550 he was bi sexual or sexually experimenting, had crabs while filming, ect... i see documentaries, read books hOLLYWOOD BABYLON and the video that i need to find...
MichaelHansenFUN 7 months ago
"I got a girl in every port - and a couple of guys in every port, too."
"He was, in a way, the first gay teenager in films. You watch it now, you know he had the hots for James Dean. You watch it now, and everyone knows about Jimmy, so it's like he had the hots for Natalie and me. Ergo, I had to be bumped off, out of the way."
Sal also shaved his chest. Slut. He was reported to have had a fondness for sadomasochistic ritual - "Sal had some strange tastes."
MichaelHansenFUN 8 months ago
@MichaelHansenFUN Can anyone tell me what "normal" is please?.
omegaman59 7 months ago
@omegaman59 the quotes were from webpages, ect...
i have a photo of sal around the time of his murder, he didnt look like this
also he was friends with david cassidy
then there is TV BABYLON
MichaelHansenFUN 7 months ago
@omegaman59 "and it's obvious Plato has a crush on Jimmy, making Plato possibly the first gay teen in cinema history" , "Really liked it a lot, even though it was very homosexual and not particularly subtle about it. The acting is terrific, and James Dean and Sal Mineo are particularly good.", "Sal Mineo was good, but in a freaky way. ", READ NETFLIX REVIEWS ABOUT REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
MichaelHansenFUN 7 months ago
didnt sal admit to this
read HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
and isnt it implied in the movie REBEL wothout a cause?
MichaelHansenFUN 8 months ago
I'm not sure what the crappy music has to do with their romance. Maybe I missed something.
barriehomeboy 10 months ago
@HogwartsCastle wow, I just saw Rebel without cause and looks like the caracter of Sal was so in love with James.....
papiricoydelicioso 11 months ago
@papiricoydelicioso: Read the book "Live Fast Die Young: The Wild Ride of Making Rebel Without a Cause" it will talk about this subject. If you remember the scene at the end when when Plato takes Jim's jacket, he holds it close to him and sniffs it - talk about being infatuated! Anyway love both James and Sal!!
chopstikz85 10 months ago
I like your video. Great pics and music!
I just finished reading the new Sal Mineo biography. According to Sal's long-term boyfriend, Courtney Burr, who he was seeing until his death, Sal stated he had great admiration for James Dean, but there was never a sexual relationship.
I highly recommend the book. It's a great read!
GoodBoys79 1 year ago 13
@GoodBoys79 Thank you very much for your comment, I would like to read this book, the problem is I am Spanish and if I can not find here in Spain and in Spanish.
edupepona2010 1 year ago
@GoodBoys79 Thats right ... Sal had an"emotional connection" with James which persisted till Sal's tragic death in 1976. There was not a romance....much as Sal might have wanted one...
omegaman59 7 months ago