But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Joe Hyams says that Dean was "one of the rare stars like Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift whom both men and women find sexy. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film Rebel Without a Cause (1955) in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark.

100 Stars list.