1956 James Dean Giant Original Floyd McCarty Portrait 8x10 Gelatin Silver Photo for Sale

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1956 James Dean Giant Original Floyd McCarty Portrait 8x10 Gelatin Silver Photo For Sale

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1956 James Dean Giant Original Floyd McCarty Portrait 8x10 Gelatin Silver Photo:
$144.00

This James Dean Giant Original Floyd McCarty Behind The Scenes Image 8x10 Warner Bros. Gelatin Silver Photo is the exact item you will receive and has been certified Authentic by REM Fine Collectibles.
Floyd McCarty (1913-1999) was among the most significant motion picture still photographers of his generation. Apart from a legacy of iconic portraits of many of the most prominent Hollywood stars of the post-war years, McCarty was still photographer of record for this film, and for many others, including GIANT, SOME LIKE IT HOT, OCEAN\'S ELEVEN and REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
McCarty was a popular still photographer became known when he photographed James Dean on the set of Rebel Without a Cause. He accompanied Dean and cast and crew on location in Texas to do the still photography on Giant in 1955.
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor with a career that lasted five years. He is regarded 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). Dean died in a car crash in 1955 and became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in East of Eden. He received a second nomination for his role in Giant the following year, making him the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations.
When Dean died before the release of the film, his photographs became the most sought-after of the star. He would go on to be still photographer on such now iconic films as Some Like it Hot, Ocean’s 11 and The Magnificent Seven.
James Dean\'s overall performance even in high school was exceptional and he was a popular student. He played on the baseball and varsity basketball teams, studied drama, and competed in public speaking through the Indiana High School Forensic Association.
After graduating from Fairmount High School in May 1949, he moved back to California with his dog, Max, to live with his father and stepmother. Dean enrolled in Santa Monica College and majored in pre-law. He transferred to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for one semester and changed his major to drama, which resulted in estrangement from his father.
He pledged the Sigma Nu fraternity but was never initiated. While at UCLA, Dean was picked from a group of 350 actors to portray Malcolm in Macbeth. At that time, he also began acting in James Whitmore\'s workshop. In January 1951, he dropped out of UCLA to pursue a full-time career as an actor.
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.
Dean\'s overall performance in school was exceptional and he was a popular student. He played on the baseball and varsity basketball teams, studied drama, and competed in public speaking through the Indiana High School Forensic Association.
Dean referred to the Actors 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, Eli Wallach... Very few get into it ... It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong.\" There, he was classmates and close friends with Carroll Baker, alongside whom he would eventually star in Giant (1956).
Dean\'s career picked up and he performed in further episodes of such early 1950s television shows as Kraft Television Theatre, Robert Montgomery Presents, The United States Steel Hour, 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 portray in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). This summer 1953 program featured the song \"Crazy Man, Crazy\", one of the first dramatic TV programs to feature rock and roll.
American teenagers of the mid-1950s, when Dean\'s major films were first released, identified with Dean and the roles he played, especially that of Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause. The film depicts the dilemma of a typical teenager of the time, who feels that no one, not even his peers, can understand him.
Joe Hyams says that Dean was \"one of the rare stars, like Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift, whom both men and women find sexy\". According to Marjorie Garber, this quality is \"the undefinable extra something that makes a star\".
Dean\'s appeal has been attributed to the public\'s need for someone to stand up for the disenfranchised young of the era. Dean quickly followed up his role in Eden with a starring role as Jim Stark in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), a film that would prove to be hugely popular among teenagers. The film has been cited as an accurate representation of teenage angst.
Following East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, Dean wanted to avoid being typecast as a rebellious teenager like Cal Trask or Jim Stark, and hence took on the role of Jett Rink, a Texan ranch hand who strikes oil and becomes wealthy, in Giant, a posthumously released 1956 film.
The movie portrays a number of decades in the lives of Bick Benedict, a Texas rancher, played by Rock Hudson; his wife, Leslie, played by Elizabeth Taylor; and Rink. To portray an older version of his character in the film\'s later scenes, Dean dyed his hair gray and shaved some of it off to give himself a receding hairline.
Giant would prove to be Dean\'s last film. At the end of the film. Before casting Cal, Elia Kazan said that he wanted \"a Brando\" for the role and Osborn suggested Dean, a relatively unknown young actor. Dean met with Steinbeck, who did not like the moody, complex young man personally, but thought him to be perfect for the part. Dean was cast in the role and on April 8, 1954, left New York City and headed for Los Angeles to begin shooting.