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One For The Road: Happy Birthday, James Dean

By Samantha Abernethy in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 8, 2012 11:40PM

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James Dean, native of Marion, Ind., would have been 81 years old today. Dean died in a car crash while preparing for a sports car race in 1955 at the age of 24.

Below is the knife scene from Rebel Without a Cause, which in our opinion isn't his best—that'd be Giant with Elizabeth Taylor—but is definitely his most well known. We were going to put up the "chickie run" scene, but we feared spoiling the ending for those who haven't seen it yet. And if you haven't, you really should. Every teen movie trope you know of appeared in that

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