- Sal Mineo, Rebel Without a Cause, 1955. Seen for the gay Plato kid were Richard Beymer and Russ Tamblyn (who swopped roles in West Side Story), Bobby Gray (no kin to Peter, up for the kindly Fremik), Jeff Silver and James Dean’s pals Dennis Hopper and Jeff Simmons. Plus… Bobby Driscoll, no longer young Jim Hawkins from Disney’s Treasure Island, 1949… Claude Jarman Jr, no longer the kid from The Yearling, 1945… and Sheffield, no longer Tarzan’s adopted son, Boy, in seven films during 1938-1947. (He had to be “adopted” because the ape-man and Jane were not wed! (Sidney Lumet had launched James Dean, Sal Mineo and Paul Newman (a Jim Stark candidate) in his New York TV shows).
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