Article: Rebel Without A Cause: John Garfield, the forerunner of James Dean,

Ellen Cohn
The Jewish Week
08-09-1996
Rebel Without A Cause: John Garfield, the forerunner of James Dean, is the focus of a retrospective that opens this week at Lincoln Center.

Brash. Cocky. Heading for a fall. All that, but in John Garfield's case, also wholly sincere, dead earnest and true to the fats of his life.

Born on the Lower East Side in 1913 to a mother who died when he was 7 and a father who worked weekdays as a garment factory presser and as a cantor on Saturdays, Jacob Julius Garfinkle - he was Jules Garfield when he joined the Group Theatre, John was Jack Warner's invention - ran with street gangs and was in and out of a number of schools before he came up lucky. A teacher, ...

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