Article: A Second Look at the James Dean of the Great Depression

Robert Sklar
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08-09-1996
A Second Look at the James Dean of the Great Depression.

After John Garfield's death at the age of 39 in 1952, his funeral at Riverside Chapel drew the largest public crowds in New York since Rudolph Valentino's. Yet four decades later the actor's name is barely remembered, let alone recalled, as his generation's leading Jewish movie star. When I published "City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield," a book about three New York-born film actors, several years ago, a common reaction was, "Cagney and Bogart of course, but who was Garfield?"

The Film Society of Lincoln Center offers an answer -- at least concerning his screen persona -- with the series "Running All the ...

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