James Dean by Darwin Porter & DANFORTH PRINCE

Author:Darwin Porter & DANFORTH PRINCE
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936003501
Publisher: Blood Moon Productions
Published: 2016-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Arlene Sachs...betrayed by Jimmy’s cheating heart.

Intrigued by her audacity, he agreed to meet her the following day for coffee at the rooftop café of the Museum of Modern Art.

That very night, if reports are to be believed, he took her virginity at his studio. He admitted later that he didn’t believe she was a virgin—“They don’t exist in Manhattan”—until he saw blood on his sheets.

“I found the sex painful, and not at all enjoyable, so I wondered why people were so obsessed with it,” she said. “But Jimmy was patient with me. I remembered he gave me my first orgasm, and then I began to feel what sex was all about. He broke me in. I started to enjoy it. He was very patient and considerate as a lover.”

“Dining out for us often meant saving up for movie tickets and a bag of popcorn to share,” she said. “Perhaps a hot dog to divide, if we were loaded. We sat in the balcony of Times Square theaters where, if the seat in front was empty, Jimmy would throw his legs across the back of it.”

“I remember one night, he fell asleep watching Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in His Kind of Woman. I had a hard time waking him up at the end of the picture. Then it was off to Jerry’s.”

“Once I got over the initial penetration, and on subsequent nights, Jimmy glided in smoothly,” she wrote in an unpublished memoir. “I began to look forward to our rolls in the hay. I’m an Aries born in April, and he is an Aquarius born in February, so, as sexual partners, we were most compatible.”

She later claimed that their subsequent dates were “boy-girl stuff,” including strolls through Central Park, followed by long nights at his studio, where he played the bongo drums for her. “Or else, he put on classical music or read passages from The Little Prince to me, neither one of which I adored.”

“I wanted him for myself, but that was not to be,” she said. “One night I saw him at Jerry’s talking to this very pretty girl,” she said. “I followed him to his apartment. I stayed there looking up at his window. The lights went out after midnight. She had not left when I went home at three in the morning. I had to get up at seven to go to work. Not only that, but I heard from this guy I met on a casting call that Jimmy was also known for seducing other actors. So I learned painfully that he would never belong to me exclusively. Often, he would call me at three o’clock in the morning, since he suffered from insomnia and needed someone to pour out his feelings to. I was it. He’d talk for three or four hours.”

Sachs had found a job as a hatcheck girl at Birdland, a venue for be-bop and jazz. She’d saved enough to rent an apartment for $35 a month.

One night, she invited Jimmy over for a home-cooked dinner.

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