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Dean's first television appearance was in a Pepsi Cola television commercial. He quit college to act full time and was cast as John the Beloved Disciple in Hill Number One, an Easter television special, and three walk-on roles in movies, Fixed Bayonets!, Sailor Beware, and Has Anybody Seen My Gal? His only speaking part was in Sailor Beware, a Paramount comedy starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; Dean played a boxing trainer. While struggling to get jobs in Hollywood, Dean also worked as a parking lot attendant at CBS Studios, during which time he met Rogers Brackett, a radio director for an advertising agency, who offered him professional help and guidance in his chosen career, as well as a place to stay.
In October 1951, following actor James Whitmore's and his mentor Rogers Brackett's advice, Dean moved to New York City. There he worked as a stunt tester for the game show Beat the Clock. He also appeared in episodes of several CBS television series, The Web, Studio One, and Lux Video Theatre, before gaining admission to the legendary Actors Studio to study Method acting under Lee Strasberg. Proud of this accomplishment, Dean referred to the Studio in a 1952 letter to his family as "The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred Dunnock. ... Very few get into it ... It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong."
Dean's career picked up and he performed in further episodes of such early 1950s television shows as Kraft Television Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, Danger, and General Electric Theater. One early role, for the CBS series Omnibus in the episode "Glory in the Flower", saw Dean portraying the type of disaffected youth he would later immortalize in Rebel Without a Cause. (This summer 1953 program was also notable for featuring the song "Crazy Man, Crazy", one of the first dramatic TV programs to feature rock and roll.) Positive reviews for Dean's 1954 theatrical role as "Bachir", a pandering North African houseboy, in an adaptation of André Gide's book The Immoralist, led to calls from Hollywood.
Family Theater was an dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947 to September 11, 1957.
The show was produced by Family Theater Productions, a film and radio studio extension of the Family Rosary Crusade founded by the Holy Cross Priest, Father Patrick Peyton, CSC, as a way to promote family prayer. The motto of the these Holy Cross Family Ministries is, "The family that prays together, stays together."
The program had no commercial sponsor, yet Father Peyton, CSC arranged for many of Hollywood's stars in film and radio at the time to appear. In its ten-year run, well-known actors and actresses, including James Stewart, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Raymond Burr, Jane Wyatt, Charlton Heston, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Gene Kelly, William Shatner and Chuck Connors, appeared as announcers, narrators or stars.
A total of 540 episodes were produced. The program featured not only religious stories but half-hour adaptations of literary works such as A Tale of Two Cities, Moby-Dick and Don Quixote.
In 1951, while the radio version was still on the air, Family Theater moved to television, and the spelling of the title was altered (Family Theatre). On TV, it was extended to one hour. Father Peyton also hosted the TV version, which ran for seven years. One of their episodes was Hill Number One, famous for featuring an early appearance by James Dean (as John the Apostle - not John the Baptist, as is commonly thought). It combined a World War II story with the story of the Crucifixion of Christ and has recently been released on DVD.
As of May 2008, The EWTN Radio Network broadcasts selected Family Theater episodes at 11:30pm on Sundays and 1:00am on Thursdays, ET. The current broadcast schedule is available on the EWTN website. Some local Catholic radio stations affiliated with EWTN, like KATH-AM in Dallas, also broadcast the program, and rebroadcast it multiple times during the week. As of September 2009, however, these programs were no longer being broadcast on EWTN.
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Steve Reeves vs Arnold Schwarzeneggerby Mjskywalker9649,254 views
I just watched an hours video to see 20 seconds of Dean >:o(
BIGPIMPINUPDANYC 2 weeks ago
44:04 It's Taiger Woods' great great great great great great great great great grandfather
LunarMonkey 1 month ago
Wau, what a beautyfool boy! i have never seen bevor a got the look jamens deans
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Jerry Fairbanks, a pioneer in producing filmed TV shows {his first was "PUBLIC PROSECUTOR" in 1948, intended for NBC but eventually syndicated, and reused for DuMont's "CRAWFORD MYSTERY THEATER" in 1951}, produced the early episodes of "FAMILY THEATRE" with Father Peyton; he also produced TV commercials, among them the one James Dean appeared in for Pepsi-Cola in 1950. I believe Fairbanks, or someone working with him [Arthur Pierson?], cast Dean in the role he played in this episode.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago