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Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) is the original cult director. With one solid exception, his films never became box-office hits and he never attained the fame or cultural and institutional appeal of John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan or Billy Wilder. His films were more popular among a circle of admirers in France, Europe ...
Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school.
Rebel Without a Cause: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus. A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Jul 12, 2011 · Hardcover. from $10.53 6 Used from $10.53. Paperback. $18.99. From award-winning biographer Patrick McGilligan comes an eye-opening life of the troubled filmmaker behind Rebel Without a Cause. Nicholas Ray spent the glory years of his career creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young ...
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Jun 17, 2010 · In Re: Nicholas Ray. June 17, 2010. The first thing to say about the legacy of Nicholas Ray—the subject of an article by Patricia Cohen in today’s Times —is that, even in the absence on home ...
Jul 12, 2011 · Nicholas Ray spent the glory years of his career creating films that were dark, emotionally charged, and haunted by social misfits and bruised young people consumed by private anguish—from his career-defining debut, They Live by Night (1948), to his enduring masterwork, Rebel Without a Cause (1955); from the noir thriller In a Lonely Place ...
- Patrick McGilligan
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age romantic drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers.Filmed in the then recently introduced CinemaScope format and directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments.
