Welcome back to The Conner & Smith Show!

This week, Ryan Dean Halbrook and Stephen begin a brand-new three-part series exploring the complete film career of one of our favorite actors of all time — James Dean.

We start where it all began with East of Eden, Elia Kazan’s emotionally explosive 1955 adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel that introduced James Dean to the world and instantly changed movie acting forever.

Raw, vulnerable, rebellious, and deeply human, Dean’s performance as Cal Trask still feels startlingly modern — and this episode dives deep into why his work continues to resonate decades later.

This is the first chapter in our James Dean trilogy series, where over the next three weeks we’ll also explore Rebel Without a Cause and Giant — the only three films Dean completed before his tragic death at just 24 years old.

If you love classic Hollywood, intense performances, film history, and actors who changed cinema forever… this episode is for you.

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