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  Sal Mineo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mineo, born in The Bronx, New York City as the son of a Sicilian coffin maker, was enrolled by his mother in dancing and acting school at an early age.
His biographer Paul Jeffers recounted that Mineo received thousands of fan letters from young female admirers, was mobbed by them at public appearances and further wrote, "He dated the most beautiful women in Hollywood and New York." Mineo was later reunited with Dean in Giant, although only in a few scenes.
Mineo is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sal_Mineo   (809 words)

  
 The Murder of Sal Mineo by Denise Noe - 05/01/03
Mineo was born Jan. 10, 1939 to Salvatore Mineo Sr., a coffin maker from Sicily, and his wife Josephine.
Mineo took dancing classes as a prepubescent and the people who saw him dance then knew the boy had talent and that he loved dancing.
Mineo was hurt by this criticism and retorted that Barnes’s reaction was "based on his own insecurities." He also found it curious that the reviewer seemed unfamiliar with him.
crimemagazine.com /salmineo.htm   (5320 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sal Mineo
Mineo, born in The Bronx, New York City as the son of Sicilian emigrants, was enrolled by his mother in dancing and acting school at an early age.
Mineo's slightly exotic good looks also earned him roles such as those of an Indian boy in Tonka or of a Jewish emigrant in Otto Preminger's Exodus, for which he received another Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.
Sal Mineo is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sal_Mineo   (470 words)

  
 Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo was such a wonderful singer and actor, and I think this collection is a "MUST" for any Sal Mineo fan, and also for any fan of 1950's pop music.
SAL MINEO was one of Hollywood's finest actors in the 1950's and 1960's.
Sal Mineo is often remembered as a teenage heartthrob, or as a queer icon-- rarely as the gifted actor and aggressively "out of the closet," fag-identified bisexual pioneer that he was.
www.queertheory.com /histories/m/mineo_sal.htm   (887 words)

  
 Rebel Without a Cause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All three of the main stars (James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo) died at relatively young ages under tragic circumstances.
James Dean was said to have encouraged Sal Mineo's attraction toward him during filming and asked Mineo to react to him the way he would with Natalie Wood.
Mineo later recalled being in love with Dean but was too young to realize it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rebel_Without_a_Cause   (589 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As this carefully and caringly researched biography shows, Sal Mineo's talents far exceeded the limits typecasting imposed upon a career that saddled him with the nickname, The Switchblade Kid.
It also demonstrates that Mineo's decline had less to do with the loss of the baby-face good looks that quickened the heartbeat of teenage girls than it did with his unwillingness to deny his homosexuality.
Sal Mineo was brutally knifed down in the carport of his home.
www.365gay.com /lifestylechannel/intime/months/01-January/Mineo.htm   (247 words)

  
 Biography for Sal Mineo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Sal was thrown out of parochial school and, by age eight, was a member of a street gang in a tough Bronx neighborhood.
Mineo went on to play variations of the role in such films as Crime in the Streets (1956), Dino (1957), and The Young Don't Cry (1957).
Mineo was just another face among the all-star casts in The Longest Day (1962) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), but John Ford gave him a good part in Cheyenne Autumn (1964) playing an Indian named Red Shirt.
www.imdb.com /Bio?Mineo,+Sal   (1151 words)

  
 Sal Mineo
Mineo was 37 when he was murdered outside his West Hollywood apartment Feb. 12, 1976.
Mineo's Hollywood career began during the 1950s, and he went on to star in more than 30 films, most notably opposite James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause," which earned Mineo an Oscar nomination.
Mineo starred with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint in "Exodus," a performance that landed him a Golden Globe for supporting actor in 1961 as well as an Oscar nomination.
theforbidden-zone.com /news/mineonews.shtml   (401 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A third star of that film, Sal Mineo, also died a horrible death; he was shot outside his West Hollywood apt in 1976, but he has not achieved the deification in death that his two costars have.
Sal Mineo was an excellent actor, a decent human being and Jeffer's book does him and his life and career a need analysis and gives perspective.
Sal Mineo;His Life, Murder and Mystery by H. Paul Jeffers is published by Carroll and Graf Publishers, Inc New York.
www.europeanguesthouse.com /esp/review_SalMineo.htm   (819 words)

  
 Bio for Sal Mineo on MSN Movies
Actor Sal Mineo enjoyed great success as a teen idol during the late '50s, shooting to fame opposite James Dean in the perennial Rebel Without a Cause.
Mineo closed out the year portraying the ill-fated Plato in the Nicholas Ray classic Rebel Without a Cause; diminutive and sad-eyed, his performance perfectly captured the film's themes of youthful desperation, and struck a chord with audiences as well as critics, earning him a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination.
Mineo's life came to a tragic end on the night of February 12, 1976, when he was brutally stabbed on the streets of West Hollywood; he was only 37 years old, and virtually broke at the time of his death.
entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=29492   (396 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Gene Krupa Story: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mineo, a drummer of some accomplishment, convincingly wields the sticks during the musical highlights, though the trickier drum solos were dubbed in by Gene Krupa himself.
Sal Mineo is perfectly cast as Gene Krupa and he actually received the wholehearted blessing of the jazz legend to play him in the film.
Mineo worked with Krupa to perfect his drum playing and the result on screen is sensational as Sal Mineo gives his heart and sole to his playing.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001LJCOS   (1638 words)

  
 Mineo Press Release Feb 12, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On February 12, 1976, actor Sal Mineo was murdered in the parking garage of his modest Holloway Drive apartment building in West Hollywood, California.
The screenplay, currently in development, will take a look back to the days when Sal Mineo was one of the hottest stars in Hollywood, and a time when Italian-American and ethnic actors were stereotyped.
Mineo had been working on the play "PS Your Cat Is Dead" the night of his death.
www.salmineomovie.com /Feb12PR.html   (427 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Sal Mineo Biography
A troubled youth, American actor Sal Mineo was a member of a street gang by the age of eight, and thrown out of school.
Mineo starred as the eponymous jazz drummer in the 1959 biopic, ‘The Gene Krupa Story’, and the 1960 film, ‘Exodus’, for which he earned a second Oscar nomination.
In 1957, at the height of Mineo's fame, Bob Hope announced on a TV special that all public schools in Brooklyn would be closed the following day, in honour of Sal Mineo's birthday.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/582:0/Sal_Mineo.htm   (432 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Mineo, Sal
Although actor Sal Mineo was twice nominated for an Academy Award, and enjoyed success as a stage director and recording artist, he is remembered chiefly for his performance in Rebel without a Cause and for the brutal murder that ended his life just as he was on the verge of reinventing himself and his career.
Yet this archetype is disturbed and complicated by the continual threat (produced as much by the sexual ambiguity of the Dean persona as by the presence of Mineo) of a sexual dimension in the men's relationship.
Mineo's homosexuality was a fairly open secret even at the height of his Hollywood success.
www.glbtq.com /arts/mineo_s.html   (1082 words)

  
 Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Sal Mineo 1
Sal Mineo, was born on January 19, 1939 in the Bronx, New York.
Sal Mineo grew up tough and moved fast - from the Bronx to Broadway to Hollywood, from street crimes to stage plays to an Oscar nomination, at the age of sixteen, for his portrayal of the doomed teenager in the 1955 James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause.
Investigating the mystery that continues to surround Sal Mineo's tragic death and sifting the facts from the fictions that shroud his private life, this long-overdue serious study of the man and the star sympathetically chronicles the thirty-seven years that made an "erotic politician" and gay icon of a street kid and teen idol.
andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biom4/mine1.html   (900 words)

  
 Sal Mineo MP3 Downloads - Sal Mineo Music Downloads - Sal Mineo Music Videos
Sal Mineo already had a solid acting career when he started putting out records.
His Sicilian father, Sal Mineo Sr., was a casket maker in the Bronx.
Her attempts to keep her troubled son out of further scrapes failed and Mineo, a gang member, was caught in a robbery two years later.
www.mp3.com /sal-mineo/artists/28630/biography.html   (555 words)

  
 Return of a Cult Shocker / Sal Mineo plays stalker in 1965 thriller, flop at the time
Director Joseph Cates' stark, lurid ``Who Killed Teddy Bear?'' a noir shocker starring Sal Mineo as a sex-obsessed stalker, was ahead of its time when it was released in 1965 and was relegated to cult limbo for nearly 30 years.
Mineo is intense as Larry Sherman, a man in a state of permanent sexual agitation who also reveals a streak of vulnerability.
Mineo hoped the film would restart his career, which had been damaged by rumors of his homosexuality.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1996/06/07/DD30910.DTL&type=printable   (526 words)

  
 John Gilmore Celebrity Spotlight: Sal Mineo
I remembered a time on the Wamers lot when Sal was walking ahead of Jimmy and me, all of us heading to the commissary, and Jimmy snuck up behind Sal and pinched him on the butt.
Sal had Jumped, flustered, then grinned with that same red in his face as now, in Downey's men's room.
Sal talked about Jean - how she'd been and what she'd become, how she seemed so sympathetic to the Black Panthers, giving them money, hanging around with some really dangerous characters.
www.johngilmore.com /Celebrities/salmineo.html   (1150 words)

  
 Sal Mineo - MovieActors.com
Sal Mineo was born on January 10, 1939 in The Bronx, New York.
At 10 years old Sal Mineo was arrested for robbery, he was given a choice of juvenile confinement or professional acting school.
Sal Mineo is portrayed by Felix Quinonez in JAMES DEAN: RACE WITH DESTINY (1997) and by Paul Pantano in THE MYSTERY OF NATALIE WOOD (2004-TV).
www.movieactors.com /actors/salmineo.htm   (262 words)

  
 The Picture In Sal Mineo's Locker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Dean, unaware that Mineo is looking at him or that we are, this time heads to his proper destination — the boys' room.
Swarthy, dark eyed Mineo, with his Caravaggioesque good looks, reeking of the Mediterranean, hankers after the icy, silent blond, further coasting on the tired but sometimes true notion that dark skinned, dark haired people are hopelessly attracted to Aryans.
The fact that both Ladd and Mineo were both so short, 5'5”, and that their height was frequently commented upon, is only a hidden connection that doesn't bear too much examining.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/02/21/sd_sal_mineo.html   (2629 words)

  
 EWORLDWIRE PRESS RELEASE distribution, WRITING, and EDGAR FILING Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mineo, who co-starred with film legend James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Giant", was stabbed to death in the car port of his West Hollywood apartment in 1976.
Seger's actions were instigated by "Tom K", another Mineo fan who stumbled across the short story "I Killed Sal Mineo" while performing an AOL search on the late actor, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Dov Landau in "Exodus" (1960).
Earlier this year, "I Killed Sal Mineo" was adapted into a monologue for stage presentation by L.A. actor David Lawrence, who performed the piece to acclaim at Scene Day at the prestigious Howard Fine Acting Studio in Hollywood.
newsroom.eworldwire.com /wr/120904/10939.htm   (963 words)

  
 Sal Mineo Forum @ Filmbug
Sal was a brave man, being outed in Hollywood in the 60's as a gay man. He showed he didn't care by producing plays such as "Fortune in Men's Eyes." His murder must have been very disturbing.
I totally agree that it was a complete waste of Sal's life when he was murdered, i know he would have gone on to better things and got back on track.
Let me be the first to start out saying that SAL MINEO was one of the greatest Actors that there has ever been...
www.filmbug.com /db/1035-8   (574 words)

  
 All about Sal Mineo, by Rachael Bell
Several other tenants who also heard rushed into the alleyway behind the garage of the complex and found Sal Mineo lying on the ground curled up on his side.
Roy Evans, one of Mineo's neighbors, noticed his labored breathing and attempted to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but to no avail.
screen star Sal Mineo was pronounced dead from a single stab wound to the heart.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/celebrity/sal_mineo   (572 words)

  
 Hadleigh interview with Sal Mineo, 1972   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The yellow journalism surrounding Sal's death was fueled by the grisly murders of silent superstar Ramon Novarro and Italian director and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Years after Sal's death, I met a Northern California restaurateur who'd been one of Sal's lovers while living in L.A. The ash-blond had recently arrived from England, and was taken by friends to Studio One, a large gay disco frequented by numerous gay actors, including Sal.
Sal said he'd once met Joan Crawford, who'd had the nerve to criticize his diction- things like saying 'muthah.' Sal was sensitive about that, and about his family's early poverty.
www.salmineo.com /news/inter_hadleigh.html   (6780 words)

  
 Celebrity Scene Weekly Vol 10 Week 3
Mineo said he thought “Sirhan Sirhan” would have the same kind of impact on the theater-going public as “Executive Action.” Though I was leery of Sal’s film project, in lieu of the fact that I resided in Dallas when JFK was assassinated, I encouraged him in his ambitious endeavors.
One day I was watching a football game on TV when the announcer cut in with a news bulletin that actor Sal Mineo’s body had been found dead on the parking lot outside his apartment.
Mineo’s death was declared “a mysterious drug-related incident” and the case was closed.
www.donaly.com /don_alys_column10.html   (1953 words)

  
 Dreambook - sal mineo
Sal, 29 years ago today you were so cruelly taken away and I feel a great loss as to what achievements you would have accomplished to this day had that no happened.
Sal Mineo was a wonderful actor, and by all accounts a very good man. May he rest in peace.
Sal was such a huge star and your website will remind the younger generation of that fact, keep his long time fans happy and hopefuly will encourage companies to start releasing his films onto DVD.
books.dreambook.com /salmineo   (8254 words)

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