Ronald Reagan? The Actor?! Well, who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady, and Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury! I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
Why is everyone getting so political about this clip? I appreciate it for its nostaligia..We have two great American men together in the same scene..Apperciate this for the intrinsic value and stop tarnishing it with politics!!
I wish you had the full upload. This was a live performance on TV. WOW- What a great job that James Dean and Ronald Reagan did. Thank you for the upload. If you have the whole show please upload.
That was awesome! I had no idea that both of these guys acted together. By the way all of you who insist that James Dean was gay, why don't you get a life and let the guy rest in peace. Both of these guys were pretty cool.
@doggsector Newsflash: Dean was bisexual, and so yes, that makes him "a little gay". It's well documented by several historians: His agent was gay, he had an affair with Nicolas Ray, the director of East of Eden, etc., etc.
As for resting in peace...he's DEAD, of course he's at peace. Jeez...
@dannybex where's your proof? that was debunked a long time ago by people who chased down those rumors to the original sources. just cuz rumors about someone pop up doesn't mean they're true. alot of times they're just smear campaigns or wishful thinking.
@dannybex watch the larry king live special on james dean. dennis hopper and his former girlfriend even said that they were rumors. scums like you just keep them alive.
@searcherboy. I will not respond any longer or waste time addressing this nonsense, the facts are accessable on the internet or other sources if anyone cares to get to the truth..
What an unlikely combination! The mutant king and the king mutant!! nice to see James in different drama roles outside of his film roles: a thug with "Cal' overtones==not all sensitive stuff!! Yet there still is his vulnerability trademark.....Shows the range of his acting and what he might have done in "Left Handed Gun". Reagan is good here too! Its like he's absorbing some of Dean's intensity. Unusual!!
@searcherboy. If it had been proven that President Reagan had lied about Iran Contra, I'm sure impeachment proceedings would have begun and he would have been convicted, oh, now that I remember, isn't this what happened to your man Bill Clinton when it was PROVEN that HE lied???
Reagan certainly did lie about Iran Contra - he told one story under oath, was proven wrong, then backtracked by claiming he didn't know that his own administration had negotiated an arms deal behind his back. In other words, his defence was incompetence. Reagan could have been impeached for transferring the money to rebels in Nicaragua in direct violation of federal law (the Boland Amendment, signed by Reagan himself in '82). If Obama pulled something like this, he'd be impeached in 3 seconds.
@searcherboy. You also failed to mention that Reagan beat his two Democratic opponents in the elections of 1980 and 1984 by 48 and 49 state LANDSLIDES, something that has never been seen before in American history, I guess you missed these FACTS as well..
@searcherboy. I will dig out the real facts concerning his Presidency and respond, two facts that come to mind, Reagan inherited a Carter mess that included 22 percent interest rates and American hostages in Iran, the hour Reagan took oath of office, the hostages were released. You failed to mention THAT fact, pal as well as interest rates falling during his administration to affordable percentages where citizens of this country could afford to purchase homes and automobiles again...
@rainstormz28 Interest rates had already peaked when Reagan took office. Rates went to 20+% because Paul Volcker, Carter's Fed Chairman, saw this as the only way to end inflation. He succeeded, at the cost of the worst recession since the 30s. Reagan kept Volcker in office because Carter's anti-inflation policy worked. Unemployment continued to rise for more than 2 years after Reagan was sworn in. It took that long for Reagan's tax stimulus and massive deficits to turn the economy around.
I lived through the Reagan era and can state from personal experience he was the greatest president we have ever had. I am not going to debate the liberal liars on this thread attempting to smear Ronald Reagan's record..the internet is a powerful tool and I challenge anybody who think jerks such as searcherboy are providing facts concerning his presidency to look up the real truth....And to those who make reference to Dean shooting Reagan..you are sick...
They say he was such a good actor because he constantly confused acting with real-life. His friends reported that they couldn't always tell if he was "playing" or serious(possibly bipolar?).
At about 4:50, Reagan rises above his standard insincere acting. In the climax of the scene, he's pretty good - playing opposite Dean seems to make him dig deeper for the truth as an actor.
@Gunfighter200077 That's delusional. Reagan ended a 35 year trend in which federal debt shrank relative to the size of the economy, tripled the nat. debt in only 8 years and started a deficit spiral that nearly bankrupted the US. He lied under oath about Iran-Contra. He was a smiling, friendly shill who enabled the sellout of the public interest to corporations. He gutted labour laws and created the conditions for the S&L crash.
@searcherboy ur delusional. jimmy carter screwed everything up and ronny did wat he had 2 do 2 turn america in2 a great country again. im sry tht u have been lied 2 ur whole life.
@Gunfighter200077 You ought to read some history - and think for yourself, if you have the ability, instead of blindly repeating the Republican/Tea Party line about how great Reagan was. He TRIPLED the national debt in only 8 years. That was the worst fiscal record of any peacetime president, ever. The so-called 'Reagan Boom' was based on excessive government debt and stimulus. Reagan's neocon fiscal policies created the mess the US struggles with today.
@searcherboy name 1 democrat that was better than reagan! u cant because its impossible. obama has put the country in the greatest debt it has ever seen before. u liberals are the biggest traitors to its country, how can any of u call your selves americans. reagan stopped foreign powers from taking over the united states to save people like you. wow a very gracious guy he was and what a very ungrateful thing you are!
@Gunfighter200077 Clinton. This hated "tax & spend liberal" was the ONLY president in the last 40 years to generate budget surpluses. He actually PAID DOWN DEBT - unlike Reagan, who tripled it. He wasn't forced to by the GOP, either. Congress operated under Pay-Go rules (passed by DEMOCRATS in 1990) that required spending increases to be funded by cuts elsewhere in the budget. The REPUBLICANS allowed this law to expire in 2002, enabling Bush's huge increases in spending and doubling of the debt.
@Gunfighter200077 [cont'd] What "foreign powers" did Reagan stop from "taking over the United States"? Grenada? You live in a fantasy world. Reagan cut and run from Lebanon after the attack on the US marines there. As for being a 'gracious guy', you and your Tea Party pals sure aren't living up to that now.
@searcherboy USSR is what he also saved us from. ur a joke u need 2 stop replying 2 this because u lost the argument before it even started. do urself a favor and just stop embarrasing urself. do not reply
@Gunfighter200077 The USSR was in terminal decline long before Reagan came along. The Berlin Wall was a tacit admission of Soviet failure. The suppression of reform movements in Hungary & Czechoslovakia proved the Soviet system couldn't adapt. In the 80s the price of oil collapsed, depriving the USSR of foreign exchange from its only significant export commodity. This caused a depression. Then the nation was bankrupted by the Afghan war. Read history.
@searcherboy ussr was still thriving what are you talking about?! also are you just a person who has no life and starts arguments on the computer because you are a poor democrat. plus can you not read? i told you 2 stop replying. i frankley am bored of talking 2 u.
@Gunfighter200077 The USSR was in severe economic crisis in the late 80s. They had to import large amounts of grain to feed their citizens (Soviet agriculture was a disaster), but the crash in oil prices meant they couldn't afford it. The loss of the war in Afghanistan weakened the Soviet military, which was already corrupt. The government lost the support of the people and the generals. This all fact. You don't seem to have any counter-arguments.
@dahliafully and to all the other Reagan bashers on this thread...it's obvious none of you have the facts of that era or don't care to take the time to look up the facts so I leave you all with this observation...it is better for people to believe you are all idiots then to post and remove all doubt...
James Dean bless his soul seemed like he had many problems in actual life, I don't know how true it is but my dad said he had a lot of mental issues. you can petty much tell just by watching him in these movies, he wasn't really acting I think maybe this is some of the pain he felt if screen as well as on.
And the character that Mr Reagan played... unafraid of a bullying armed punk is just the kind of president he became. He replaced the sniveling weak coward Jimmy Carter.... if Jimmy Carter had been the doctor he would have tried to understand the little creep. We don't negotiate with terrorists and they will not bully us. That is the real Reagan doctrine.
WOW ! That was real neat ! Never seen this before, lots of drama and you can already see the style in which Dean was heading towards in his career. His life was just beginning to reach full bloom. We turned for just a moment and when we looked back again the bloom was gone.
Ronald Reagan? The Actor?! Well, who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady, and Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury! I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
Jimmy and good friend Jack Simmons together in this Nov. 1954 television show, 6 months before filming began on "Rebel Without a Cause." He is wearing Jimmy's glasses. Jack later played one of the gany members, Cookie.
I really wish I could see the whole episode of this, it looks really cool. the pairing of reagen and james dean is pretty grand if you think about it. one represented youth and rebellion, and the other represented tradition and nostalgia.
@JokerInThePack1979 I don't know if he would've been better than Brando. There was no one like Marlon Brando. But then again, there was no one like Jimmy Dean. I guess we'll never know.
@fabiolemme If it wasn't for Reagan in the '80s, strongly helping other countries out when you needed us, as well as pumping billions of dollars into your economy all of those years, you'd be eating mud and swinging from a tree, Commi.
@southwriter: You make that sound like charity from pure hearts, hahaha. The USA pumped billions of dollars all over the world because it was interesting for them - to expand economic/political influence and getting even more in return!
But that debate could last forever. I don´t even know u and I´m not interested to. You can post anything you want in reply, cause I´m not gonna even bother to. Cheers.
@staydput It's a well-known fact that Dean struggled with dyslexia. When forced to read a script for auditions, he would blame any slip-ups on cracked or misplaced glasses. I think it proved to be a blessing in disguise, because it enabled him to use his phenomenal gift for improvisation. He was also extremely nearsighted, which is why you sometimes see him squinting in his films. Not to mention the fact that he was only 5'8'', not exactly the ideal height for a lead male. Incredible indeed.
@heb1114 Most people don't know that he actually wore a bridge- he knocked his front teeth out as a kid playing "daredevil" at the Winslow family barn(where he grew up after his mother died). This affected his speech at times- if you're observant you can hear the "slurs" in some TV & movie performances. An example is in "East of Eden" during the "wilow tree" scene near the end, after Julie Harris consoled him & his brother scoulded him. He slurs "Hey Arron- you wanna go somewhere with me"?
@staydput But James Dean said to the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (who was, by the way, the biggest critic of his idol Marlon Brando) that he 'always' wanted to be a writer ... can you suffer from dyslexia and write ? : S
That line "I don't know whether to beat you or kill you." was kinda stupid and ruined the scene for me. "I don't know what to do with you." would have been more realistic than that.
This whole short film is awkward. Regan's acting sucks, and also so does Dean's. I am sorry, these two are usually great actors, but I aint feelin it. This is like some horrible B grade. Wouldnt suprised me if this was improvised on the spot.
Is it just me or did Reagan look like a 97-year-old man even in the 1950s?
Was he EVER young??
DoubleTalkingJive 2 weeks ago
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Ronald Reagan? The Actor?! Well, who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady, and Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury! I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
EpicTrollQueen 3 weeks ago
reagan smash REAGAN SMASH!!!!
jallar4 1 month ago
This is perfect...
loocyjoocy 1 month ago
is this where tarantino got his inspiration for "from dusk till dawn"?
Dthesun 1 month ago
Classic. Thanks for posting. Reagan and Dean. Pretty damn cool.
RadioCarino 1 month ago
Why is everyone getting so political about this clip? I appreciate it for its nostaligia..We have two great American men together in the same scene..Apperciate this for the intrinsic value and stop tarnishing it with politics!!
1035ttobin 1 month ago 4
@1035ttobin I'm amused by the implication that what you're saying isn't political.
dxmachina 1 day ago
ronald reagan was a good actor....
MUNDOPEGASSEROFAN 1 month ago
2:46 hahhahahaha, that a good translation
PD:Click on CC
MultiPacoLee 1 month ago 5
How Alpha is Ronald Regan and James Dean in the same scene?
tristantroube11 2 months ago
I wish you had the full upload. This was a live performance on TV. WOW- What a great job that James Dean and Ronald Reagan did. Thank you for the upload. If you have the whole show please upload.
Multi1mark 2 months ago
that was actually a really great scene
scotfreak 2 months ago
Terrible performance from Jimmy. The worst I've ever seen, very overwrought and ridiculous. Hard to admit, but Ronnie gives the superior performance.
Ulysses61 2 months ago
@Ulysses61 FUCKING REPUBLICAN SCUM!!!!
Fenix521 2 months ago
Good acting, i believe i just shit myself...
Sorry, be right back :)
formularenault 3 months ago
Not James' best performance ever, but such a treat to see such rare footage of him! Thanks for posting.
joshstoph 3 months ago
Horrible and affected performance from Jimmy. Really bad. It's pathetic that Ronnie gives the superior performance.
Ulysses61 3 months ago
I love James Dean omg
tytheeman20 4 months ago
lol James sure was bopping
thepolodon21 4 months ago
初めて観た！ロナルド・レーガンとジェームズ・ディーンが共演してる！中曽根康弘さんにも見せてやりたい。
1963tatanka 4 months ago in playlist AmazingArchive さんのその他の動画
Um, very choppy
TransformedMan 5 months ago
That was awesome! I had no idea that both of these guys acted together. By the way all of you who insist that James Dean was gay, why don't you get a life and let the guy rest in peace. Both of these guys were pretty cool.
doggsector 5 months ago
@doggsector Newsflash: Dean was bisexual, and so yes, that makes him "a little gay". It's well documented by several historians: His agent was gay, he had an affair with Nicolas Ray, the director of East of Eden, etc., etc.
As for resting in peace...he's DEAD, of course he's at peace. Jeez...
dannybex 4 months ago
@dannybex where's your proof? that was debunked a long time ago by people who chased down those rumors to the original sources. just cuz rumors about someone pop up doesn't mean they're true. alot of times they're just smear campaigns or wishful thinking.
mjt11860 4 months ago
@dannybex stop makin allegations
TiG3Rooo 2 months ago
@TiG3Rooo They're not "allegations", but instead well-known and documented facts.
dannybex 2 months ago
@dannybex watch the larry king live special on james dean. dennis hopper and his former girlfriend even said that they were rumors. scums like you just keep them alive.
TiG3Rooo 2 months ago
Typical James Dean right from the beginning.
The only performance he gave without the father issue was a pepsi commercial.
Carthsting 6 months ago
James Dean=Swag "wait a minute lets just keep it cool man don't mess up" and @2:26-35 swagg
thepolodon21 6 months ago
@searcherboy. I will not respond any longer or waste time addressing this nonsense, the facts are accessable on the internet or other sources if anyone cares to get to the truth..
rainstormz28 7 months ago
i just love james deans form of acting. beautiful. really wish he would have left us more magic... more to look at... more to love. rip jimmy. :'')
PeriquinTV 7 months ago
@MrNotyag I disagree--he's good here---Dean seems to be pulling something out of him.
windstorm1000 7 months ago
What an unlikely combination! The mutant king and the king mutant!! nice to see James in different drama roles outside of his film roles: a thug with "Cal' overtones==not all sensitive stuff!! Yet there still is his vulnerability trademark.....Shows the range of his acting and what he might have done in "Left Handed Gun". Reagan is good here too! Its like he's absorbing some of Dean's intensity. Unusual!!
windstorm1000 7 months ago
@searcherboy. If it had been proven that President Reagan had lied about Iran Contra, I'm sure impeachment proceedings would have begun and he would have been convicted, oh, now that I remember, isn't this what happened to your man Bill Clinton when it was PROVEN that HE lied???
rainstormz28 7 months ago
Reagan certainly did lie about Iran Contra - he told one story under oath, was proven wrong, then backtracked by claiming he didn't know that his own administration had negotiated an arms deal behind his back. In other words, his defence was incompetence. Reagan could have been impeached for transferring the money to rebels in Nicaragua in direct violation of federal law (the Boland Amendment, signed by Reagan himself in '82). If Obama pulled something like this, he'd be impeached in 3 seconds.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy If Obama pulled something like that they would throw a party for him. Give me a break.
doggsector 5 months ago
@doggsector Is this any kind of defence for what Reagan did 30 years ago?
searcherboy 5 months ago
@searcherboy. You also failed to mention that Reagan beat his two Democratic opponents in the elections of 1980 and 1984 by 48 and 49 state LANDSLIDES, something that has never been seen before in American history, I guess you missed these FACTS as well..
rainstormz28 7 months ago
@rainstormz28 So what? FDR was very popular as well. One person's hero is another's villain
AliceNchainz011 4 months ago
@searcherboy. I will dig out the real facts concerning his Presidency and respond, two facts that come to mind, Reagan inherited a Carter mess that included 22 percent interest rates and American hostages in Iran, the hour Reagan took oath of office, the hostages were released. You failed to mention THAT fact, pal as well as interest rates falling during his administration to affordable percentages where citizens of this country could afford to purchase homes and automobiles again...
rainstormz28 7 months ago
@rainstormz28 Interest rates had already peaked when Reagan took office. Rates went to 20+% because Paul Volcker, Carter's Fed Chairman, saw this as the only way to end inflation. He succeeded, at the cost of the worst recession since the 30s. Reagan kept Volcker in office because Carter's anti-inflation policy worked. Unemployment continued to rise for more than 2 years after Reagan was sworn in. It took that long for Reagan's tax stimulus and massive deficits to turn the economy around.
searcherboy 7 months ago
I lived through the Reagan era and can state from personal experience he was the greatest president we have ever had. I am not going to debate the liberal liars on this thread attempting to smear Ronald Reagan's record..the internet is a powerful tool and I challenge anybody who think jerks such as searcherboy are providing facts concerning his presidency to look up the real truth....And to those who make reference to Dean shooting Reagan..you are sick...
rainstormz28 7 months ago
@rainstormz28 I challenge you to respond to the facts I cited about Reagan's presidency, specifically the fiscal ones.
searcherboy 7 months ago
This was fascinating. The little girl playing Ronnie's daughter was much too big for that baby crib.
GypsyFairy85 7 months ago
They say he was such a good actor because he constantly confused acting with real-life. His friends reported that they couldn't always tell if he was "playing" or serious(possibly bipolar?).
gemini16th 7 months ago
ronald reagans message, marijuana is bad but selling bio weapons to sadam hussein is a ok
KennyBare 7 months ago
At about 4:50, Reagan rises above his standard insincere acting. In the climax of the scene, he's pretty good - playing opposite Dean seems to make him dig deeper for the truth as an actor.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy yes, I agree. that is a good analysis.
windstorm1000 7 months ago
Dean's latent talent clearly evident in this amazing post. RIP Jimmy.
gefnanroolz 7 months ago
why is everyone giving ronald crap? best president ever. just goes to show that there are sad liberals among us.
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 That's delusional. Reagan ended a 35 year trend in which federal debt shrank relative to the size of the economy, tripled the nat. debt in only 8 years and started a deficit spiral that nearly bankrupted the US. He lied under oath about Iran-Contra. He was a smiling, friendly shill who enabled the sellout of the public interest to corporations. He gutted labour laws and created the conditions for the S&L crash.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy ur delusional. jimmy carter screwed everything up and ronny did wat he had 2 do 2 turn america in2 a great country again. im sry tht u have been lied 2 ur whole life.
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 You ought to read some history - and think for yourself, if you have the ability, instead of blindly repeating the Republican/Tea Party line about how great Reagan was. He TRIPLED the national debt in only 8 years. That was the worst fiscal record of any peacetime president, ever. The so-called 'Reagan Boom' was based on excessive government debt and stimulus. Reagan's neocon fiscal policies created the mess the US struggles with today.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy name 1 democrat that was better than reagan! u cant because its impossible. obama has put the country in the greatest debt it has ever seen before. u liberals are the biggest traitors to its country, how can any of u call your selves americans. reagan stopped foreign powers from taking over the united states to save people like you. wow a very gracious guy he was and what a very ungrateful thing you are!
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 Clinton. This hated "tax & spend liberal" was the ONLY president in the last 40 years to generate budget surpluses. He actually PAID DOWN DEBT - unlike Reagan, who tripled it. He wasn't forced to by the GOP, either. Congress operated under Pay-Go rules (passed by DEMOCRATS in 1990) that required spending increases to be funded by cuts elsewhere in the budget. The REPUBLICANS allowed this law to expire in 2002, enabling Bush's huge increases in spending and doubling of the debt.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy u do know democrats are the reasoning for high tax prices and high gas prices
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 [cont'd] What "foreign powers" did Reagan stop from "taking over the United States"? Grenada? You live in a fantasy world. Reagan cut and run from Lebanon after the attack on the US marines there. As for being a 'gracious guy', you and your Tea Party pals sure aren't living up to that now.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy USSR is what he also saved us from. ur a joke u need 2 stop replying 2 this because u lost the argument before it even started. do urself a favor and just stop embarrasing urself. do not reply
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 The USSR was in terminal decline long before Reagan came along. The Berlin Wall was a tacit admission of Soviet failure. The suppression of reform movements in Hungary & Czechoslovakia proved the Soviet system couldn't adapt. In the 80s the price of oil collapsed, depriving the USSR of foreign exchange from its only significant export commodity. This caused a depression. Then the nation was bankrupted by the Afghan war. Read history.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy ussr was still thriving what are you talking about?! also are you just a person who has no life and starts arguments on the computer because you are a poor democrat. plus can you not read? i told you 2 stop replying. i frankley am bored of talking 2 u.
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 The USSR was in severe economic crisis in the late 80s. They had to import large amounts of grain to feed their citizens (Soviet agriculture was a disaster), but the crash in oil prices meant they couldn't afford it. The loss of the war in Afghanistan weakened the Soviet military, which was already corrupt. The government lost the support of the people and the generals. This all fact. You don't seem to have any counter-arguments.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy cause i dont need 2 argue. its fact that reagan was and will always be the best. thats the only fact i need.
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@Gunfighter200077 That's not fact, that's faith. You're welcome to it.
searcherboy 7 months ago
@searcherboy its a fact when everyone knows it even you but are too dumb to admit it
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
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Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
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FckYourMorals 8 months ago
Blow his head off James
Bankallday 8 months ago
Ronald Reagan was a jerk then as well as when he was president
MrB17FlyingFortress 8 months ago
@MrB17FlyingFortress well its your life
funcooldrew2 8 months ago
WTF?
cangriman0101 8 months ago
@dahliafully and to all the other Reagan bashers on this thread...it's obvious none of you have the facts of that era or don't care to take the time to look up the facts so I leave you all with this observation...it is better for people to believe you are all idiots then to post and remove all doubt...
rainstormz28 8 months ago
Reagan deserved an Oscar for his role as the President.
Kenmorfdublin 8 months ago
James Dean bless his soul seemed like he had many problems in actual life, I don't know how true it is but my dad said he had a lot of mental issues. you can petty much tell just by watching him in these movies, he wasn't really acting I think maybe this is some of the pain he felt if screen as well as on.
pole52 9 months ago
0:52 so this was first attempt upon the life of RR....:))
sam0xin 9 months ago
Oh no NO NO DOC LoL R.I.P James Dean. The man was & still is a legend!
xVxRayJohnathaNxVx 9 months ago
And the character that Mr Reagan played... unafraid of a bullying armed punk is just the kind of president he became. He replaced the sniveling weak coward Jimmy Carter.... if Jimmy Carter had been the doctor he would have tried to understand the little creep. We don't negotiate with terrorists and they will not bully us. That is the real Reagan doctrine.
jimaroo100 9 months ago
WOW ! That was real neat ! Never seen this before, lots of drama and you can already see the style in which Dean was heading towards in his career. His life was just beginning to reach full bloom. We turned for just a moment and when we looked back again the bloom was gone.
70bonnie 9 months ago
Ronald Reagan? The Actor?! Well, who's Vice President? Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady, and Jack Benny is the Secretary of the Treasury! I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, future boy!
Killermike2178 10 months ago 39
@Killermike2178 hahaha! back to the future! i love that movie.. i have the trilogy ;)
crippledinside92 6 months ago
@crippledinside92 Me too!
Killermike2178 6 months ago
@Killermike2178 cool! i reply 4 months later gosh im awful .. forgive me =]
crippledinside92 2 months ago
@Killermike2178 Great line from Doc in "Back to the Future". lol lol
4MaryAnna 6 months ago
@Killermike2178 gotta love Back to the future ;)
BlueJean1138 4 months ago
In real life after Reagan disarmed Dean he would've put him in a dress, given him a good boofing and then called the cops to haul him away
gwooftrint321 10 months ago
Reagan vs James Dean : The story of the USA
MrOknoprob 10 months ago 10
Jimmy and good friend Jack Simmons together in this Nov. 1954 television show, 6 months before filming began on "Rebel Without a Cause." He is wearing Jimmy's glasses. Jack later played one of the gany members, Cookie.
daniece1000 10 months ago
well southwriter you sound like a genuine regan idoliser, labeling anything a communist
b0b0maj0 10 months ago
Reagan could have easily played Joe Friday on Dragnet. He has a very "Jack Webb" style demeanor in this film. Great actor.
freepressright 10 months ago
what an actor! Rest in peace RR
guevaraul5 10 months ago
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motoquan 11 months ago
Damn! Ronald Regan looked old as hell even back in the early '50's!
SoXfused 11 months ago 2
All Presidents are actors.
mussfrombruss 11 months ago
Dig that crazy music!
oldtilter 11 months ago
For those who do not know...
Dean was functionally illiterate.
He had fellow actors read him all of his lines until he 'groked' them.
During the shoot, he'd let himself 'flow' with the script, constantly IMPROVING it.
Even the writers admitted: I'd wished I'd written THAT.
Dean was a total natural.
His death spanned Steve McQueen AND Paul Newman, neither of whom would have broken out but for Dean's death.
Amazing, No?
Yeah, they got killer roles that were set for Dean.
staydput 11 months ago 2
Jimmy, So cute when he dances!!!!!=)
SamLuvsJamesDean 11 months ago
3:23 ... shoot him. shoot him! SHOOT HIM GODDAMNIT!!!!
mussman717word 11 months ago
@mussman717word Communist.
southwriter 10 months ago
@southwriter
So be it.
mussman717word 10 months ago
Oh, God. It's outstanding to see Reagan get so badly upstaged by real talent.
mussman717word 11 months ago 4
@mussman717word Yeah, now you know how Carter and Mondale must have felt : )
Krydan2167 11 months ago
I'm Ronald Reagan speaking for General Electric.
Awesome. How many years later and President's are still speaking for General Electric. Just not so up front about it anymore.
Zen5012 11 months ago
I believe I read in "The Mutant King" that CBS reran this several times.
orthiconghost 11 months ago
Actually, it's the GE Theater production of "I'm a Fool" (James Dean / Natalie Wood) that was repeated.
AmazingArchive 11 months ago
@AmazingArchive Thanks for clearing that up. I was also thinking of "The Unlighted Road".
orthiconghost 11 months ago
I really wish I could see the whole episode of this, it looks really cool. the pairing of reagen and james dean is pretty grand if you think about it. one represented youth and rebellion, and the other represented tradition and nostalgia.
SuperStinsley 1 year ago
@SuperStinsley
You mean one represented truth, and the other lies. I totally agree with you, though.
mussman717word 11 months ago
this was very entertaining
GodofWarhammers 1 year ago
5:36 Well...
mt22201 1 year ago
Ronald Reagan was also a great actor as President......
edgarreyes14 1 year ago
wow!!! intense!!
eheads09 1 year ago
this is classic ....
eheads09 1 year ago
No one touches James Dean. Not a soul. End of story.
xoxok8iebabyxoxo 1 year ago 6
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xrowdyroddypiperx 1 year ago
Although Reagan wasn't a good actor, he was much more talented as an actor, than as a politican...
sounds73 1 year ago
@theeyeoftheduck i think he would have made a great spider man in a spider man film
zazfilm 1 year ago
RONNIE! as much as i like dean as an actor, i bet he would have annoyed the shit out of me as a person.
zazfilm 1 year ago
James Dean was a very good actor, but he's no Brando.
sigurjong 1 year ago
@sigurjong you're right...........he would've been better than Brando.
JokerInThePack1979 1 year ago 2
@JokerInThePack1979 I don't know if he would've been better than Brando. There was no one like Marlon Brando. But then again, there was no one like Jimmy Dean. I guess we'll never know.
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sexykatie90 1 year ago
0:56 I know what Ronald Reagan was thinking 20+ years later when he got shot.
'god not this shit again.'
EndeavourLaunch 1 year ago
where was this from? it's not from any of his movies right?
DookieLiquid 1 year ago
know what's amazing? it's the best acting I ever saw Reagan do.
giles422 1 year ago 3
The opening reminds me of Drunken Angel (1948) by Akira Kurosawa.
isaiahheaden 1 year ago
Imagine if Ronald Reagan had died in a car crash and James Dean had become the president....
istvan969 1 year ago 57
@istvan969 one could only wish..
10FootballGuy45 11 months ago
@istvan969 : The 80´s would have been a much happier decade, that´s for sure...
fabiolemme 10 months ago
@fabiolemme The '80s was the best decade after the '50s. The '50s were great because you were not around!
southwriter 10 months ago
@southwriter: Aren´t you cute. BTW, if you had lived anywhere outside of the USA during that decade, I´m aure you would understand my message.
fabiolemme 10 months ago
@fabiolemme If it wasn't for Reagan in the '80s, strongly helping other countries out when you needed us, as well as pumping billions of dollars into your economy all of those years, you'd be eating mud and swinging from a tree, Commi.
southwriter 10 months ago
@southwriter: You make that sound like charity from pure hearts, hahaha. The USA pumped billions of dollars all over the world because it was interesting for them - to expand economic/political influence and getting even more in return!
But that debate could last forever. I don´t even know u and I´m not interested to. You can post anything you want in reply, cause I´m not gonna even bother to. Cheers.
fabiolemme 10 months ago
@fabiolemme Commi.
southwriter 10 months ago
@istvan969 I guarantee you it's happening in an alternative parallel Universe as I type and you read these words.
- AND I'm typing the obverse in the other Universe.
Kenmorfdublin 8 months ago
@istvan969 james dean would of done a way better job!!!!!
rebelDean550 8 months ago
@istvan969 thts dumb
Gunfighter200077 7 months ago
@istvan969 Imagine if your mother had actually had a child that lived...
swstryker 7 months ago
@istvan969 Dude you rock! LMAO!
duran66 7 months ago
That's what marijuana and jazz does to people. It's tragic.
jhop9898 1 year ago 17
@jhop9898 fuckin rasist. sftu and greetz from germany you dumb piece of shit :D
BigLouieLittlePhilly 11 months ago
@BigLouieLittlePhilly Thank you. You have a nice day too.
jhop9898 11 months ago
@jhop9898 no problem piece of shit :)
BigLouieLittlePhilly 11 months ago
@jhop9898
i don't think reagan smoked or listened to jazz.... but you're right he was a tragic character. especially for the rest of us.
dahliafully 11 months ago 2
@jhop9898
What's so bad about marijuana?
grabit1 11 months ago
@jhop9898 don't blame it on the jazz baby lol
JazzStudiesBA 11 months ago
is this the full episode? are there more scenes or what? can anyone tell me how to watch full episode?
jsingh974 1 year ago
For some reason James Dean reminds me Brad Pitt in this.
TangledWeb 1 year ago
The ONE thing that surprised me was that Dean was functionally illiterate!
From those who acted with him...
He'd have his lines read to him in rehearsal and so took them to his heart they became him.
As for reading the script....
Multiple famous actors say -- he couldn't read them!
It also meant that, if the role required it, he'd just 'rewrite' his lines for better emotion. And the pros around him made it all 'fit.'
Dean was, in fact, a terrific Re-Writer! He constantly beat the script.
staydput 1 year ago
@staydput It's a well-known fact that Dean struggled with dyslexia. When forced to read a script for auditions, he would blame any slip-ups on cracked or misplaced glasses. I think it proved to be a blessing in disguise, because it enabled him to use his phenomenal gift for improvisation. He was also extremely nearsighted, which is why you sometimes see him squinting in his films. Not to mention the fact that he was only 5'8'', not exactly the ideal height for a lead male. Incredible indeed.
heb1114 1 year ago
@heb1114
Dean was more true than real...
By re-crafting his lines...
Even the director told the others -- go with him...
Dean had the ability to consume the character. This had a huge impact on Rod Hudson and E. Taylor.
They were blown away.
Dean made his character ENTIRELY real. The stiffness in the original dialog was thrown aside -- effortlessly.
Elizabeth and Rod and others found that his dialog was so much better than the script it made it so much easier to respond and act....
staydput 11 months ago
@heb1114 Most people don't know that he actually wore a bridge- he knocked his front teeth out as a kid playing "daredevil" at the Winslow family barn(where he grew up after his mother died). This affected his speech at times- if you're observant you can hear the "slurs" in some TV & movie performances. An example is in "East of Eden" during the "wilow tree" scene near the end, after Julie Harris consoled him & his brother scoulded him. He slurs "Hey Arron- you wanna go somewhere with me"?
gemini16th 10 months ago
@staydput But James Dean said to the gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (who was, by the way, the biggest critic of his idol Marlon Brando) that he 'always' wanted to be a writer ... can you suffer from dyslexia and write ? : S
roxor1080 1 year ago
James Dean is great and it comes out in everything he's in. Ronald Reagan....well what can I say, B actor at best.
HoboGus 1 year ago
Was James Dean a commie? Because Reagan kicked his ass like he was one.
rockerhead247 1 year ago
its weird and funny seeing james dean dancing lol
conorsmitheire 1 year ago
superb
crallex 1 year ago 2
AMAZING. Reagan delivered just enough for Dean to shine.
Pleaver 1 year ago
"DO THE BEST YOU CAN, YOU DIG ME?"
TiG3Rooo 1 year ago
I guess only the good die young is true.
thehouseofcm 1 year ago 3
That line "I don't know whether to beat you or kill you." was kinda stupid and ruined the scene for me. "I don't know what to do with you." would have been more realistic than that.
SimoneRobinHill 1 year ago
James Dean breaks your heart even as a criminal. :'-(
heb1114 1 year ago
Omg, I'm not used to seeing Ronald Reagan as the good guy.
Theblizzardking 1 year ago
great!
marcellolippi 1 year ago
He can act, (Reagan) I mean.
border205 1 year ago
Damn why did reagan have to die so old.
fvlak1 1 year ago
Reagan fell into obscurity in the 80’s? Really? I guess if you call President of the United States obscurity. Wow.
glaze9 1 year ago
@glaze9 That was obviously meant as a tongue in cheek comment.
GusF 1 year ago
@glaze9 HAHAHAHAHA
ryder0792 1 year ago
Reagan: underrated actor, Dean: Icon for the next 100 years
toddadale 1 year ago
@toddadale more like eternity
TiG3Rooo 1 year ago
It's a shame that Ronald Reagan fell into near complete obscurity in the 1980s.
GusF 1 year ago 4
@GusF I agree what ever happend to him..
Preppy429 1 year ago
Damn why'd he have to die so young.
deltaforce1919 1 year ago
This RARE FOOTAGE should stay rare, Im a big James Dean fan but this makes me cringe,
StasisDesigns 1 year ago 3
This whole short film is awkward. Regan's acting sucks, and also so does Dean's. I am sorry, these two are usually great actors, but I aint feelin it. This is like some horrible B grade. Wouldnt suprised me if this was improvised on the spot.
HateClips 1 year ago
@HateClips Alot of it(early T.V) was.
gemini16th 1 year ago
White people can dance! Look at gene kelly and fred astaire! Two of the greatest dancers that ever lived and they were white!:)
SamLuvsJamesDean 1 year ago
Wow this is good footage
01thrilla 1 year ago