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Sal Mineo Sal Mineo was born on January 10, 1939 in New York to an Italian immigrant family, and his mother signed him up to study dance and acting at a very young age. As a child actor, he has appeared on many TV shows and only started making movies at the age of 15, and his second film is "Rebel without a Cause/ Taiwanese translation of "Adopted Son Does Not Teach Whose Fault" / Hong Kong translation of "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" / Rebel without a Cause ( 1955).
In the film, he plays a sensitive teenager who is obsessed with James Dean, Sal Mineo is attached to James Dean like a little boy pestering his parents, the parents have been missing for many years, and the only contact with their son is to send living expenses back regularly, such a family, foreshadowing the final tragic ending, mentally, the little boy has only half a life left. This was the first potentially gay character to appear on the big screen in the United States. The film brought him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor that year.
Stills from Sal Mineo and James Dean in the film Rebellion without Cause (1955).
Sal Mineo went on to play a humble-born soldier in James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson Rock Hudson in Giant/Giant Legends Giant (1956), as a simple boy. Since then, he has played a series of similar problem juvenile roles, and Hollywood even directly referred to him as his nickname "Spring Knife Boy" in "Street Crime", and the bad boy image has also received countless female love letters for him.
Stills from Sal Mineo in the film Giant/Giant's Giant (1956).
To break free, Sal Mineo began taking on alternative roles, and in 1960 he played a concentration camp refugee in the film Exodus (1960) starring Paul Newman, which won him a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a second Oscar nomination.
Entering the 1960s, the career of Sal Mineo, who was born with a baby's face, began to decline: people were accustomed to his juvenile image. In 1962, after having sex with rock icon Bobby Sherman, he confirmed that he was bisexual. Since then, his lovers have mostly been young men. Coming out had a serious impact on his career, and after losing films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and The Godfather (1972), Sal Mineo became depressed and dependent on drugs.
Stills from Sal Mineo and Jill Haworth from the film Exodus (1960).
Entering the 1970s, he rediscovered himself to a new world of his acting career: stage plays. He had a stunning nudity performance in the prison-themed avant-garde drama Destiny and the Eyes of the World. 1975 stage comedy "Yes, Your Cat Is Dead P.S. Your Cat Is Dead" He played the role of a burglary against the abused thief, which was warmly praised by the critics.
Sal Mineo decided to move to Los Angeles to facilitate rehearsals, but it was this decision that brought tragedy. In 1976, in an alley near his West Hollywood apartment, Sal Mineo was stabbed to death by a robber dressed as a pizza delivery employee, at the age of 37.
Rock icon Bobby Sherman
Sal Mineo was stabbed to death, leaving Bourne Anderson Bjorn Andresen, who starred in Morte a Venezia (1971), who starred in "Soul Break Venice Morte a Venezia" (1971), to be accused of being involved in the incident, when gossip claimed that Sal Mineo was Berne Anderson's lover. Bourne Anderson denied he knew Sal Mineo and claimed he was not in the United States at the time of the murder. He was not convicted of the incident.
That year, when Sal Mineo and James Dean were collaborating on their first film, Rebel Without a Cause, because James Dean played a man named Jimmy in it, and Sal Mineo played a teenager named Plato who was madly adoring Jimmy, the film was later considered to be the first time in American cinema to show a man's desire for men. Plus James Dean himself is well known as bisexual.
At that time, many people thought that Sal Mineo and James Dean must have had a dewy affair, but Sal Mineo denied it, Sal Mineo said that he did not feel attractive to men, but he admitted that he was in love with James Dean, but he said that he did not understand James Dean's problems in sex life, so he did not take any action on him.
Then, speaking of James Dean, Sal Mineo said, "If I had learned earlier that men could fall in love with men, it would have happened, but I couldn't have learned it so many years ago, and it's too late now." (He was 16 years old when he was filming with James Dean, and then James Dean died in a car accident.)
At that time, James Dean was busy with Marlon Brando, and although James Dean and Marlon Brando had a brief sexual relationship, Marlon Brando only regarded James Dean as a passerby, and Marlon Brando also had a young wally Cox Wally Cox at home, who still had to go home after "stealing" all day, Lawrence Oliver Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh The Leigh couple were also "all-consumed" by Marlon Brando.
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In the later biography of Sal Mineo, an incident in the 1960s was described: Once, when Sal Mineo was strolling along the beach near his home, he met a young male film fan, and it seemed that he had not met him for the first time. Sal Mineo was attracted to the young boy, who invited the other to his house, after which they had a relationship. It was then that Saul Mineo truly recognized his sexuality.
On October 23, 2011, James Franco brought his self-directed film Sal Sal to the Texas city of Austin for the premiere of the local Austin Film Festival at the Paramount Theater. For the biopic about actor Sal Mineo, who played the role of Prato in Rebels Without a Cause, James Franco said, "Sal Mineo is the actor I particularly like, and I present his tragic story in the film. ”
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Sal Mineo, a Hollywood actor active in the 1950s, is best known for acting with James Dean in The Rebel For No Reason. At the age of 16, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his outstanding acting. At the age of 22, Sal Mineo realized that he liked men in addition to women. He was the first male star in Hollywood to openly acknowledge his sexual orientation, and it was incredible then and even now. Of course, this also caused harm to his career.
In 1976, Sal Mineo was stabbed to death in an alley near his apartment, and many gossip tabloids alluded to his death from a homosexual lifestyle, as a result of a love affair. It was not until 1979 that the police arrested the suspect that it was determined to be a robbery. James Franco confessed that he had come to the film with the mentality of turning the case around because the wind-catching reports tarnished memories of Sal Mineo.
Let's use the picture to recall the short moments of the short life of Sal Mineo, the first young actor in Hollywood to come out publicly.
Sid Avery, Portrait of Sal Mineo,1950's
Gigi Perreau, one of the stars in the film The Gray Flannel Suit (1956), attended the premiere of the film
Stills from Sal Mineo in the film Donkey Kong The Young Don't Cry (1957).
Stills from Sal Mineo in the film The Crazy Drummer The Gene Krupa Story (1959).
Sal Mineo participates in a live video recording event on television
Stills from Sal Mineo in the film A Private's Affair (1959).
Stills from Sal Mineo in the film Cheyenne Autumn (1964).
Sal Mineo in the movie Who Killed the Teddy Bear? Stills from Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965).
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Sal Mineo was 16 years old at the height of his life, when he worked with James Dean and Natalie Wood, all three of whom died unexpectedly.