Beverly Long, one of the last surviving castmembers of the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause, died May 8 in Los Angeles after a short hospital stay. She was 81. Long also had a leading role as Ouisie in the 1957 film The Green-Eyed Blonde, appeared in Paramount's As Young as We Are (1958) and was seen on Robert Young's CBS sitcom Father Knows Best. The longtime resident of Studio City in recent years served as a casting director. Long played Helen, a friend of Judy (Natalie Wood) and one of the gang, in the 1955 Warner Bros. drama directed
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- 5/16/2014
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Six surviving cast-members of Rebel Without a Cause (1955) are celebrating the film's 45th anniversary by getting together to discuss the experience in public. Dennis Hopper, who was just 18 when he played a gang member in the 1955 classic will be joined by cast members Corey Allen, Steffi Sidney, Jack Grinnage, Beverly Long, Frank Mazzola and screenwriter Stewart Stern. The six will watch a screening at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, before leading a discussion on the making of the movie and their experiences of working with James Dean, who was killed in a car crash a month before the movie opened.
- 10/26/2000
- WENN
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