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Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his unforgettable, Academy Award–nominated turn opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and his tragic murder at the age of thirty-seven. Finally, in this riveting new biography filled with exclusive, candid interviews with both Mineo’s closest female and male lovers and never-before-published photographs, Michael Gregg Michaud tells the full story of this remarkable young actor’s life, charting his meteoric rise to fame and turbulent career and private life.One of the hottest stars of the 1950s, Mineo grew up as the son of Sicilian immigrants in a humble Bronx flat. But by age eleven, he appeared on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, and then as Prince Chulalongkorn in the original Broadway production of The King and I starring Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence.
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Michael Gregg Michaud's work has appeared in hundreds of anthologies, newspapers, magazines and other publications. He is also a playwright, editor, and award-winning photographer. He is a founding director of the Linda Blair Worldheart Foundation, and worked closely with Tippi Hedren at the Shambala Preserve for more than a decade. He currently sits on the Board of the Museum of California Design, and lives in Los Angeles.
