New from our friends at European Film Star Postcards: Sal Mineo
American actor Sal Mineo (1939-1976) was a teen idol during the late 1950s. He shot to fame as Plato in the classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955) featuring James Dean. 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. He co-starred again with Dean in Giant (1956) and with Paul Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) and Exodus (1960). In 1957, he scored a pair of Top 40 hits with 'Start Movin' (In My Direction) and 'Lasting Love'.
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