The James Dean Story The James Dean Story The James Dean Story is a 1957 American documentary. Released two years after Dean's death, the Warner Bros. Pictures release chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, and the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, and outtakes from "East of Eden", footage of the opening night of "Giant", and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving from "Warner Bros. Presents". Martin Gabel's narration was written by Stewart Stern, who scripted Dean's "Rebel Without a Cause",
KTVU primarily consisted of those released during the 1950s, most being presented in color, which aired at 7:00 p.m. on Sundays. Channel 2 was the first television station in the Bay Area to air such films as "A Star Is Born", "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause". KTVU exercised discretion and limited the amount of commercial break interruptions during the movie telecasts, often airing the films uncensored and with commentary, either by a studio host or via slides. The station even televised the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film "Hollywood Revue of 1929" with some of the original two-strip Technicolor sequences. During the