Darwin Porter - James Dean: Tomorrow Never Comes

J AMES D EAN

T OMORROW N EVER C OMES

James Dean became a legend, worldwide. This book tells how he did it.

C OMMEMORATING THE TH A NNIVERSARY OF THE D EATH OF J AMES D EAN
(F EBRUARY 8, 1931-S EPTEMBER 30, 1955)

A NOTHER E XAMPLE OF B LOOD M OON S A WARD -W INNING E NTERTAINMENT A BOUT H OW A MERICA I NTERPRETS ITS C ELEBRITIES .

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JAMES DEAN

Tomorrow Never Comes

Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince

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ISBN 978-1-936003-49-5

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Back cover design by Tiffany Voorhees

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A Word About Phraseologies

Since we at Blood Moon werent privy to long-ago conversations as they were unfolding, we have relied on the memories of our sources for the conversational tone and phraseologies of what weve recorded within the pages of this book.

This writing technique, as it applies to modern biography, has been defined as conversational storytelling by The New York Times, which labeled it as an acceptable literary device for engaging reading.

Blood Moon is not alone in replicating, as remembered dialogues from dead sources. Truman Capote and Norman Mailer were pioneers of direct quotes, and today, they appear in countless other memoirs, ranging from those of Eddie Fisher to those of the long-time mistress (Verita Thompson) of Humphrey Bogart.

Some people have expressed displeasure in the fact that direct quotes and as remembered dialogue have become a standardsome would say mandatoryfixture in pop culture biographies today.

If that is the case with anyone whos reading this now, they should perhaps turn to other, more traditional and self-consciously scholastic works instead.

Best wishes to all of you, with thanks for your interest in our work.

Danforth Prince

President and Founder

Blood Moon Productions

A LSO FROM B LOOD M OON P RODUCTIONS N EW A ND C OMING N EXT !

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DONALD TRUMP

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

Softcover, 500 pages, with photos, available everywhere in September, 2016.
Another proud and presidential addition to Blood Moons award-winning Babylon Series.

ISBN 978-1-936003-51-8

P REVIOUS W ORKS BY D ARWIN P ORTER
P RODUCED I N C OLLABORATION WITH B LOOD M OON

B IOGRAPHIES

Bill & Hillary, So This Is That Thing Called Love

Peter OToole, Hellraiser, Sexual Outlaw, Irish Rebel

Love Triangle, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, & Nancy Davis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, A Life Beyond Her Wildest Dreams

Pink Triangle, The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of their Entourages.

Those Glamorous Gabors, Bombshells from Budapest

Inside Linda Lovelaces Deep Throat, Degradation, Porno Chic, and the Rise of Feminism

Elizabeth Taylor, There is Nothing Like a Dame

Marilyn at Rainbows End, Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up

J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson Investigating the Sexual Secrets of Americas Most Famous Men and Women

Frank Sinatra , The Boudoir Singer. All the Gossip Unfit to Print

The Kennedys , All the Gossip Unfit to Print

Humphrey Bogart, The Making of a Legend (2010), and The Secret Life of Humphrey Bogart (2003)

Howard Hughes, Hells Angel

Steve McQueen, King of Cool, Tales of a Lurid Life

Paul Newman, The Man Behind the Baby Blues

Merv Griffin, A Life in the Closet

Brando Unzipped

Katharine the Great, Hepburn, Secrets of a Lifetime Revealed

Jacko, His Rise and Fall, The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson

Damn You, Scarlett OHara , The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier (co-authored with Roy Moseley)

F ILM C RITICISM

Blood Moons 2005 Guide to the Glitter Awards
Blood Moons 2006 Guide to Film
Blood Moons 2007 Guide to Film, and
50 Years of Queer Cinema, 500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made

N ON -F ICTION

Hollywood BabylonIts Back! and Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again!

N OVELS

Blood Moon,
Hollywoods Silent Closet,
Rhinestone Country,
Razzle Dazzle
Midnight in Savannah

O THER P UBLICATIONS BY D ARWIN P ORTER
N OT D IRECTLY A SSOCIATED WITH B LOOD M OON

N OVELS
The Delinquent Heart
The Taste of Steak Tartare
Butterflies in Heat
Marika (a roman clef based on the life of Marlene Dietrich)
Venus (a roman clef based on the life of Anas Nin)
Bitter Orange
Sister Rose

T RAVEL G UIDES

Many Editions and Many Variations of The Frommer Guides , The American Express Guides, and/or TWA Guides, et alia to :

Andalusia, Andorra, Anguilla, Aruba, Atlanta, Austria, the Azores, The Bahamas, Barbados, the Bavarian Alps, Berlin, Bermuda, Bonaire and Curaao, Boston, the British Virgin Islands, Budapest, Bulgaria, California, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and its Ports of Call, the Cayman Islands, Ceuta, the Channel Islands (UK), Charleston (SC), Corsica, Costa del Sol (Spain), Denmark, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Edinburgh, England, Estonia, Europe, Europe by Rail, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Florence, France, Frankfurt, the French Riviera, Geneva, Georgia (USA), Germany, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Granada (Spain), Great Britain, Greenland, Grenada (West Indies), Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jamaica, Key West & the Florida Keys, Las Vegas, Liechtenstein, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Maine, Malta, Martinique & Guadeloupe, Massachusetts, Morocco, Munich, New England, New Orleans, North Carolina, Norway, Paris, Poland, Portugal, Provence, Puerto Rico, Romania, Rome, Salzburg, San Diego, San Francisco, San Marino, Sardinia, Savannah, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seville, the Shetland Islands, Sicily, St. Martin & Sint Maartin, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, South Carolina, Spain, St. Kitts & Nevis, Sweden, Switzerland, the Turks & Caicos, the U.S.A., the U.S. Virgin Islands, Venice, Vienna and the Danube, Wales, and Zurich.

B IOGRAPHIES
From Diaghilev to Balanchine, The Saga of Ballerina Tamara Geva

Lucille Lortel, The Queen of Off-Broadway

Greta Keller, Germanys Other Lili Marlene

Sophie Tucker, The Last of the Red Hot Mamas

Anne Bancroft, Where Have You Gone, Mrs. Robinson?
(co-authored with Stanley Mills Haggart)

Veronica Lake, The Peek-a-Boo Girl