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.

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 East Bay ...

On September 30, 1955, James Dean made his last stop at Blackwell's Corner, a gas station in Kern County, California, before his fatal crash. This video retraces Dean's final hours, visiting ...

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.