RR Auction\u2019s\u00a0Remarkable Rarities<\/a> sale on Sept 20.<\/p>\nThe two-page love letter was written a year before the simmering \u201cRebel Without a Cause\u201d actor died in a car accident at the age of 24.<\/p>\n
James Dean with Barbara Glenn at Rockaway Beach in 1953.<\/p>\n
A love letter James Dean penned to his girlfriend Barbara Glenn just sold at auction for $32,500. RR Auction<\/p>\n
\u201cGiven his tragically short life, handwritten letters from James Dean are extremely rare,\u201d Bobby Livingston, executive vice president at RR Auction, told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes this one so special is that it\u2019s a personal note from Hollywood to his girlfriend \u2014 an intimate glimpse of James Dean the person, not just the icon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter was owned by a European memorabilia collector.<\/p>\n
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Dean opened the note by saying, \u201cI haven\u2019t written because I have fallen in love,\u201d and then went on to profess his devotion to his Palomino horse named Cisco.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shakes hands and everything. May use him in the movie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The fledgling actor mailed the letter from Burbank, CA, a month after getting to Hollywood to start filming \u201cEast of Eden,\u201d his first major film.<\/p>\n
Dean tragically died at the age of 24. Getty Images<\/p>\n
He longed for his NYC sweetheart in the mushy missive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very lonely. Your card smelled so good, please don\u2019t do that,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Glenn was introduced to Dean by their mutual friend, actor Martin Landau, in New York City in the early 1950s, when they were both trying to make it in the industry. <\/p>\n
They dated for two years before he moved to California.<\/p>\n
James Dean\u2019s fiery letter to girlfriend Barbara Glenn. RR Auction<\/p>\n
She ended up marrying actor Mark Gordon, and having a son, Keith, who began selling his mom\u2019s letters from her ex-A-lister beau to auction houses.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was this weird semi\u2013family secret because my dad was super jealous. I think it was\u00a0the love of her life. She was a couple of years younger than him, and I think it was her first big romance,\u201d Keith revealed to Closer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI had two deathbed requests from my parents. My mom said, \u2018Never get rid of the letters,\u2019 and my dad said, \u2018Please, whatever you do, get rid of the letters!\u2019 So, I\u2019ve always felt there was no way to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This rebel had a cause in Queens. Tragic Hollywood legend James Dean had a girlfriend in Forest Hills…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,195,236,2865,2866,88,186,1506,109181,31954],"class_list":["post-185733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-auctions","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-dating","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-hollywood","tag-james-dean","tag-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}