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Death
of James Dean Sparks a Curse!
Friday, September 30, 1955, director George Stevens and a small group, including Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson were watching rushes of the movie, Giant. George was behind a desk by the controls. The projection room was dark when suddenly the phone rang. The screen came to a halt, freezing the picture. Lights went up. Everyone turned and looked at George, telephone dangling in his hand. It looked like he had seen a ghost. Slowly he stood up, his voice coming from a place far away when he said, “There’s been a car crash. Jimmy Dean has been killed”.
The Day of the Crash! It had been a beautiful day in California. Dean had wrapped up shooting the movie Giant and had planned to race his 1955 Porsche Spyder in an automobile race held at the Salinas Airport. Dean originally intended to pull his new silver Porsche Spyder on a trailer behind his station wagon but, at the last minute decided to drive the sports car to put some pre-race mileage on it. Following in Dean’s station wagon were stunt car driver Bill Hickman and famous photographer Sanford Roth. Our Story Begins…
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