James Dean random trivia

Was a graduate from Santa Monica College, a California junior college that boasts its elite drama program. Only actor in history to receive more than one Oscar nomination posthumously. According to "The Mutant King," David Dalton's 1974 biography of James Dean, the rumor that Dean was a masochist who liked to have cigarettes stubbed out on his naked body can be traced to a pencil sketch of his called "The Human Ash Tray." The sketch featured a human body, in the guise of an ash tray, with many cigarette stubs in it. Dalton speculates that the sketch has nothing to do with Dean's sexual proclivities but much to do with the fact that he was a heavy smoker.