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    James Dean was born in Indiana in 1931. His mother died when he was 9 and his father sent him to live with relatives on a farm in Indiana. As a teenager, Dean was close with his Methodist pastor and may have had a sexual relationship with him. After high school, Dean moved back to California and attended Santa Monica College before transferring to UCLA to study drama, estranging him from his father. He dropped out of UCLA in 1951 to pursue acting full-time.

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    James Dean was born in Indiana in 1931. His mother died when he was 9 and his father sent him to live with relatives on a farm in Indiana. As a teenager, Dean was close with his Methodist pastor and may have had a sexual relationship with him. After high school, Dean moved back to California and attended Santa Monica College before transferring to UCLA to study drama, estranging him from his father. He dropped out of UCLA in 1951 to pursue acting full-time.

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    James Dean was born in Indiana in 1931. His mother died when he was 9 and his father sent him to live with relatives on a farm in Indiana. As a teenager, Dean was close with his Methodist pastor and may have had a sexual relationship with him. After high school, Dean moved back to California and attended Santa Monica College before transferring to UCLA to study drama, estranging him from his father. He dropped out of UCLA in 1951 to pursue acting full-time.

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    James Dean was born at the Seven Gables apartment house at the corner of 4th Street and
    McClure Street in Marion, Indiana,[5] the son of Winton Dean (January 17, 1907 February 21, 1995)
    and Mildred Marie Wilson (September 15, 1910 July 14, 1940). His parents were of mostly English
    ancestry, with smaller amounts of Scottish, German, Irish and Welsh. [6] Six years after his father had
    left farming to become a dental technician, Dean and his family moved to Santa Monica, California.
    He was enrolled at Brentwood Public School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, but
    transferred soon afterward to the McKinley Elementary school. [7]The family spent several years there,
    and by all accounts, young Dean was very close to his mother. According to Michael DeAngelis, she
    was "the only person capable of understanding him."[8] In 1938, she was suddenly struck with acute
    stomach pains and began to lose weight quickly. She died of uterine cancer when Dean was nine
    years old.[7]
    Unable to care for his son, Dean's father sent him to live with his sister Ortense and her husband,
    Marcus Winslow, on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana,[9] where he was raised in their Quaker household.
    [10]

    Winton served in World War II and later remarried. In his adolescence, Dean sought the counsel

    and friendship of a local Methodist pastor, the Rev. James DeWeerd. DeWeerd seemed to have had
    a formative influence upon Dean, especially upon his future interests in bullfighting, car racing,
    and theater.[11] According to Billy J. Harbin, Dean had "an intimate relationship with his pastor, which
    began in his senior year of high school and endured for many years."[12][13] Their alleged sexual
    relationship was earlier suggested in the 1994 book Boulevard of Broken Dreams: The Life, Times,
    and Legend of James Dean by Paul Alexander.[14] In 2011, it was reported that he once confided
    in Elizabeth Taylor that he was sexually abused by a minister approximately two years after his
    mother's death.[15] Other reports on Dean's life also suggest that he was either sexually abused by
    DeWeerd as a child or had a sexual relationship with him as a late teenager.[13][14]
    His overall performance in school was exceptional and he was also considered to be 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,[16] Dean moved back to California with his dog, Max, to live with
    his father and stepmother. He enrolled in Santa Monica College (SMC) and majored in pre-law. He
    transferred to UCLA for one semester,[17] and changed his major to drama,[18] which resulted in
    estrangement from his father. He pledged the Sigma Nu fraternity but was never initiated.[19] While at
    UCLA, Dean was picked from a group of 350 actors to portray Malcolm in Macbeth.[20] 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.[21][22]

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