With Brackett threatening to file suit, Dean agreed to pay back $800 in weekly installments and even got Warner Bros. to pay Brackett a “finder’s fee” to ensure his silence about their ...

James Byron Dean was born Feb. 8, 1931, the son of a dental technician and a farmer's daughter, Winton A. and Mildred Wilson Dean, in the Seven Gables apartment house in Marion, Ind.

Then suddenly Bast dropped the suit on the condition that future editions of my book include a denial that he had had an affair with Dean. That was 1995. Fast forward to 2006.

Here's Stephen McHattie in a lightly roughed-up suit-and-scarf ensemble in the title role of the 1976 TV movie James Dean. STEP 2: Add some round-framed proto-Warby Parkers.