Dean letters sell for $36,000

JAMES DEAN's handwritten love letters to a former girlfriend have sold for $36,000 (22,500) at a London auction.

The Rebel Without a Cause star's three notes to ex-lover Barbara Glenn, who he dated for two years, smashed the predicted selling price of $25,700 (16,060) when they went under the hammer at Christie's on Thursday (24Nov11). In the letters, Dean writes about feeling homesick while filming a movie and he also criticises a Broadway staging of The Immoralist. The messages were sold by Glenn's son, filmmaker Keith Gordon. The Hollywood icon died in a car accident in 1955.

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