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Winstons and Chesterfields were his favorite brands of cigarettes?

Dean’s parents, Mildred and Winton Dean, named him after James Amick, an assistant surgeon at the Marion VA Hospital?

James Whitcomb Riley was his favorite poet and Frank Sinatra and Renata Tebaldi were his favorite singers?

His neck size was 15½ inches and his shoe size is 9E?

The only jewelry he wore was a silver identification bracelet, a black-faced wristwatch and several pairs of cuff links?

His favorite ice cream was a combination of coffee and raspberry?

He earned a $10 flat fee for a Pepsi commercial he did in 1950 and $1,500 per week salary for the movie Giant in 1955?

As an adult, he owned a Palomino he named Cisco the Kid?

He had malaria while filming Rebel Without a Cause?

His sign was Aquarius?

He had a fear of flying?

Dean never did own Mercury, the car often associated to him because he drove one in the film Rebel Without a Cause?

He could barely see without his glasses and that he was nearsighted?

His last drink was a Coke?

It cost $56.14 to transport Dean from the site of his fatal accident to the Paso Robles Hospital on Sept. 30, 1955?

It took 12 jurors 20 minutes to determine Dean died of fractured neck and other injuries as a result of speeding?

Dean was wearing a white T-shirt, a red jacket and light blue pants the day he was killed?

His estate included two pairs of cuff links, an inscribed traveling clock, a wristwatch, a silver perfume flask, an ID bracelet, three racing trophies, a Marlin, .22 rifle, a set of three bongo drums, a red leather suitcase and a pair of bull’s horns and matador’s cape?

He wore pants with a 30 to 32-inch waist?

He sometimes suffered from insomnia?

Donald Turnipseed, the man who collided with Dean in his fatal crash, was left stranded on the highway and had to hitchhike home to Tulare?