Taken too soon - James Dean was only 24 years old when he died in a car crash in California, just as his movie career was taking off.

Five years after meeting Bast, Dean died in a car accident in 1955 at the age of 24, with two of his signature films, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant, released posthumously.

A stretch of Central California highway notorious as a “Blood Alley” — and the site of James Dean’s fatal crash — has been revamped with a new interchange. Related Articles Two separate ...