The Religious Affiliation of
James Dean great American actor
Dean was a Quaker (Religious Society of Friends). Dean went a few times to worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with actress Terry Moore while he casually dated her.
From: Ellis Auburn, The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The Obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Elizabeth Taylor, HarperCollins Publishers: New York, NY (2000), page 74:
On October 8 in Fairmount, three thousand mourners jammed the Black Creek Friends Church [a Quaker church] for Jimmy's [James Dean's] funeral, the largest in the town's history.
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