East of Eden (4/10) Movie CLIP - Nobody Holds Me (1955) HD

[@HillaryLeigh1]

My favorite movie speech ever, but this is only half of it. I remember seeing this movie for the first time when I was a senior in high school (1985) and her line, "You don't think it's funny, you better not go to college." always stuck with me. I thought, at the time, 'what a weird thing to say', but it only took a little bit of time for me to figure out that what she was saying was, if you don't understand irony, you're too dumb to go to college. If you get to watch the entire speech, she sums up human nature in about five minutes. Wonderful movie - they don't make movies like this anymore.

[@robertjromero9488]

Agreed.

[@lemorab1]

You said it all! Jo Van Fleet steals the movie in this scene. I just saw "East Of Eden" for the first time and now I want to see everything Van Fleet ever did! At first, Dean irritated me with his hyperactive puppy routine, and his hair and clothes not being in the period. As if Jim Stark just got kicked out of high school for having ADHD and wandered over from another movie set. Then, his performance began to jell. Here, Van Fleet effectively wipes him off the screen, no mean feat. In 1965, my high school English teacher, Frances Warren, gave one of the best definitions of irony I've ever heard: Irony is that which prevents honest sentiment from lapsing into the excess of sentimentality. This scene is a perfect demonstration of this.

[@thischarminglovehound2376]

Well said, Scout!

[@TommyLellan]

The older I get, the more I realise that the purest people we meet are often not the ones who showcase it for society, but are in fact the ones society often chastises. Some of the purest people I know have sailor mouths and “alternative” lifestyles.

[@ronniebishop2496]

John Steinbeck. Great writing.

[@numbskulI]

One of my favorite novels of all time!! Steinbeck is such a brilliant writer!!

[@thehair1474]

Jo really deserved that Oscar. Kudos.

[@timirish2563]

Jo Van Fleet was a masterful screen actress. She was not much older than Dean when this film was made. She had the ability to transform herself into anything. Dean liked her--you can tell--and she was Kazan's idea of what the perfect actor should be. Dean's scenes with her are the best in the film--followed by his scenes with Julie Harris (who was in actuality somewhat older than Dean). Screen acting was so good at one time. So was American moviemaking.

[@lemorab1]

Jo Van Fleet was 16 years older than James Dean when they filmed "East of Eden." She was born in 1915 and he was born in 1931.

[@hatasakuta8012]

​@@lemorab1 Which means she was just 40 yo when this film was released

[@mogg34y]

This was ground breaking acting by Dean in 55 . Most films of this time actors over did it knew there Mark very stiff and did it like the theatre clift started it Brando took it to another level Dean was more relaxed natural level .

[@paulofarrell6498]

Earlier greats like Bogart, Cagney, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Edward G Robinson never “overdid it” and they certainly weren’t stiff. If anything, some of James Dean’s acting now appears rather melodramatic and over-the-top. And I say that as a fan of his.

[@mogg34y]

@@paulofarrell6498 Cagney I would say great. But the others style was more traditional and very theatrical. Cooper was mellow but very much the same style in every film 🎥

[@lemorab1]

@@paulofarrell6498 I would say over-the-top melodrama is definitely true of Dean's acting in "Rebel Without A Cause." I thought he was pitch perfect in "Giant." Does Big Drama when it is called for, reins it in when necessary. I love the scene when Jett Rink strikes oil on the land that Luz Benedict left him, and tells Bick Benedict, "I'm gonna have more money than you'll ever have!!" I'm not so impressed with him here in "East of Eden." The young Method Actors seem to have wandered in from a different movie.

[@AliMedina-tl9em]

Oh my gosh I freakin love J D . He was a beautiful perfect boy . Wish he was still here.

[@lraoux]

"If you don't think that's funny, you better not go to college." Always loved this line 😂.

[@sandraestlow6861]

These days stupidity fits right in with the college life.

[@brendas186]

Dean was so cute

[@retrosuperheroart2202]

1:26 genius acting, the eyes and the little nod say yeah! It's not telegraphed to the camera, but for Jo Van Fleet and the reality of the scene, which does make it connect with the viewer. Awesome!

[@haintedhouse3052]

One of my favorite scenes. I was a late-bloomer when it came to East of Eden and J.Dean but I made up for lost time.

[@Bondisaurus]

This part of the movie always gets to me! It's so powerful! Whenever I look at this movie I think of this scene. One of my favourites!

[@poetcomic1]

The amazing Jo Van Fleet shows how she won her Oscar. I love this but her incredible role in Elia Kazan's Wild River is even better.

[@jaimonjohn2516]

Meh I prefer east of Eden she is hammy in wild river

[@Ubeman-s1s]

I bought a similar sweater back then after watching this seeing how good James Dean looked in this scene 😂 😂 Been a fan of JD since I discovered him in the early 90s when Im still so young. He has the best profile even Brando and Presley couldn't beat that.

[@fob1xxl]

In 1955, Jo Van Fleet played Susan Hayward's mother in "I'll Cry Tomorrow". She was teriffic in "Eden" ! Won the Oscar !

[@franciscoangelaguilar6526]

I just love his fashion style it is still so relavant today. ✌🌼💙🙂

[@robertmendez4990]

I’m pretty sure it was the fashion designer on set whose responsible

[@aisha02a]

@@robertmendez4990 james dean dressed like that in his personal life too. very stylish guy who knew his good sides and what complemented his figure and skin tone

[@ElusiveEyes]

@@aisha02a quite the opposite they had costume designers on rebel and east of Eden. James Dean style was little more undone.

[@BARNOWLFLEDGLINGS]

Jo Van Fleet had fire, and was one of the best ever!

[@jamesh2711]

She also had a very good turn in "Cool Hand Luke" as Paul Newman's mother.

[@somejackball]

love this movie! still got it on VHS, i watch it at least once a year

[@BEHEDETY]

love my DVD of it!

[@ymarksthespot]

And that actress was only 23 at the time the 50s were wild man

[@joeyjoe003]

The actress was the one that shined in this scene. James was alright, of course because he didnt have much to do in this scene.

[@joeyjoe003]

INTERNETWORK wow really? I'll remember.

[@jaimonjohn2516]

Yeah well it's like joe pesci with deniro always pesci who stole their scenes

[@keithmadden9260]

Yep, she was the star of this scene

[@goodowner5000]

Yes, wonderful actress. Jo Van Fleet as Cal & Aaron's mother- she won the 1955 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance here.

[@joeyjoe003]

@nickxero2740 with my limited knowledge in acting, she's the one that naturally stood out to me. Not saying he's a bad actor. If he was illuminating as you said, then maybe he was idk anything about that

[@sandraestlow6861]

My first cousin, Arthur Scipione, was married to her sister Corrine. I never knew this until I began a genealogy file on my paternal side of the family. I wish I would have had the opportunity to have met her. Outstanding actress!

[@Savadorason1]

-She was BOSS!

[@davidmalakie6622]

What a great scene.

[@sheryldalton8965]

Cathy was the pivotal & most interesting character in the book.

[@wiinterflowers95]

She was the evillest character in the book.

[@DanielReyes-cd9qx]

I really sympathized with Kate after this scene. Although Steinbeck said she was "the devil," I felt what she really hated was phoniness....fakeness....and being controlled. She didn't want to be fake....to be the ideal wife, be the ideal mother, etc. She wanted the freedom to be herself...which was damn near impossible in that time in history. She also hates the phoniness of others...of Adam Trask and of her clients who act all proper, respectable, and "holier than thou"...but only in public. Kate just wanted freedom more than anything...more than love, more than family, more than respect.

[@JolPil]

Read the novel. Kate killed her parents, killed the former owner of the brothel and took it. Kate burned her parents alive! That is why Steinbeck said she was evil, she was female evil, and too many People are still unwilling to accept that women can be just AS evil AS men.

[@princessofnada87j25]

Catherine was a psychopath. She had to be what others wanted her to be. She was an excellent liar. Ahead of her time. For Catherine it was worth lying because she would get what she wanted. She lived as a big lie herself.

[@laurend9829]

In the book, Kate/Cathy is basically a psychopath. She has murdered, used and abused people. She's blackmailing the entire town by luring customers to her brothel and taking illicit photos of them. She bad. REAL bad.

[@ItsEricaBeyetch]

But she herself is phony, she's a pyscopath posing as a normal person to get by.

[@homelessjesse9453]

Kate was the ultimate sociopath. She killed her parents with zero remorse, despite the fact she could've changed her name to avoid being sent back to them. Remember, these were the days when pictures were a rarity. She used her perceived charm and innocence to destroy almost everything in her path. The only redeemable qualities she might've possibly had before her demise(spoliers) was realizing Aron was possibly the only person she might've felt any affection for. She didn't even want anything to do with Cal.

[@OctPSfever]

She has the voice on play, old school style...Vivien had the same thing..

[@annabanana8700]

Sometimes I wish the story had been completely from Cathy’s POV because let’s be honest: she’s by far the most layered character in the book and movie!

[@brianbommarito3376]

Did I mention she kills herself by the end of the book? Yeah, it’s not as pretty a life as she wants to paint for her son to see. She wanted to be free, but she’s more of a prisoner than any of us are. The real question to ask is: if she never loved Adam Trask, why did she marry him in the first place? The book makes it clear, she was running from the law and he was her only ticket to freedom. Just like death becomes the only escape when the law threatens to find her anyways.

[@lukeallan8876]

Great performance from dean , good movie

[@keithmadden9260]

Bull, she stole this scene

[@TommyLellan]

I love that they mention how Kate shot Adam. In the book, she’s in the middle of giving birth to the twins and she loses it and shoots him when he tries to hold her down. I remember it vividly. Of course, in the book she is a psychopath who pretends to be normal in order to survive. I guess having humans coming out of her hoo-haa sent her over the edge.

[@stirfry3018]

Tommy Lellan is there another version of the book or something? that’s not what happens

[@crakdjdj]

@@stirfry3018 yeah what version did this dude read

[@sheridan1700]

huh what version of the book did you read? None of it happens in the book lol. She shot Adam WEEKS after giving birth to the twins. She manipulates people because that's how she derive pleasure, since she's the symbol for Satan.

[@TommyLellan]

@@sheridan1700 I read it in 2010, so my memory is a little hazy. I was sure she was in the middle of giving birth! But that makes more sense, how could someone mid-birth in the early 1900's manage a gun haha

[@sheridan1700]

@@TommyLellan I think you misremembered the part where she bit Sam Hamilton on his hand during her birth, not shooting anyone

[@jaimonjohn2516]

Jimmy looks very cute

[@allclassallthetime4739]

I couldn't identify with anything so pure in my life like this, I feel pain and my pain is just that everyone else is happy but me it seems. I could do it all if I wanted but I'll always feel like everyone has it better than me as far as happiness.

[@robertjromero9488]

I think this is the greatest acting moment in screen history, and speaking of "funny", what's really funny is the supreme father has his kids to back him up, while his rich wicked wife is left alone twirling the safe bank lock, miserably.

[@jolened5663]

Is he a supreme father though? His narrow mindset causes Cal so much pain. She's a twisted woman, sure, but she worked hard for herself and values honesty above all. Adam Trask is a pious but self-righteous man who will lie to himself to maintain his integrity. And in the process, he ends up ostracising the son who (I think) treasures him more than anything.

[@princessofnada87j25]

@@jolened5663 Catherine did not earned what she got. She played people that care for her She does not honor honesty. She is a liar.

[@blahblah60]

@@jolened5663 its funny, i think this character was intended to be despised but with a modern view i can help help admire it.

[@Sangria]

You can see why she won best actress for this

[@pablofrank2466]

Best Supporting Actress- and yes, she was superb. AMPAS missed a golden opportunity to give the Best Actor Oscar to Dean posthumously.

[@SahanaChakrabarty-i9z]

I don't know if I could've accepted my late mother if she ran a brothel. But none of these things seemed to bother Dean. He was so interested in knowing her. He came back to see her even after she had him beat up. Seems a bit weird.

[@7dennis123]

Something tells me Jo Van Fleet wasn't acting. She had some pain to draw from. A little like Nick Cage drawing from experience in Leaving Las Vegas.

[@saulreynoso8439]

No, he never asked her for $5000, it was Lee, his father's Chinese servant, who offered Cal his life savings. To take a John Steinbeck's masterpiece and cram it into 2 hour move did a great disservice to the original work, the book was far better and as cool as James Dean was in real life he was no Cal.

[@shawneedalegrimm9728]

Never read the book but I'm going to. For me, having not read the book, I thought I understood the character of Cal and saw it as played. I thought James Dean was terrific. Wonder if he read the book.

[@homelessjesse9453]

You're right. But on reflection, I think the movie might've actually gotten that one right. It would've been a lot better had Cal been forced to confront Cathy for the money instead of Lee. Which if anyone read the book, they'd know she'd be more than glad to do it in order to humiliate Adam.

[@paulofarrell6498]

The book is great in parts but overlong and ponderous. The filmmakers did a good job in distilling it to focus on Cal’s story.

[@lapacesiaconvoi]

Lee gave it to Cal with great confidence in the 1981 remake.

[@travisdavis7591]

Actually the 1981 mini series was closer to the book. Jane Seymour's portrayal of Cathy Trask was the epitome of sociopathic wickedness..

[@رائدبنراكان]

😭😭❤❤❤

[@desertfox3917]

I like her over the father! Hes so square and stubborn

[@srnjaxmiller279]

2017 😄😄

[@camilleabby6022]

Serena Jaxon 2018 :D

[@prabathkiran5606]

2019

[@brucecaudill1958]

Jo Van Fleet was without a doubt amazing in this movie phenomenal she stole scene.

[@owenhunt]

Wallasey Van Hoyte.. Paws-lez-mizerables.. Holiday-Van Coyte

[@owenhunt]

James Dean wins the first minute and then holds fire as if he is planning on leaking his leed until winning it in the last orcher.. Only for Jo Van Fleet to score his point for him with no time for the conversion kick. James Dead loses the scene by a single point in a dramatic NFL.. finale' di teatro.

[@RobertStambaugh-l5r]

James Dean and Raymond Massey are good in this film . I don't care much for Jo Van Fleet's over - acting , though .

[@xanthe4547]

ik she's evil but she's also hot so I'm conflicted

[@josephkearny5874]

Why'd she marry him in the first place?

[@keithmadden9260]

Read the book

[@chateaupig826]

Next to Jo van Fleet , he's the bit actor

[@stardustgirl2904]

Any women who leaves her own children , is SICK!! In this scene she is projecting her personality onto her son, to take her guilt away from leaving her family, SHE is vain ,bitter and selfish!!!!

[@keithmadden9260]

Crap!

[@letolethe3344]

Yup. That's the whole point.

[@thelastsaint2457]

This is one of the most ridiculous story lines, the mother runs away from a deeply religious man and becomes a boss of a brothel. Why you married to him then...

[@pantarei8382]

I agree 100% about religion!! Nothing worse then hypocrites and all religious people are that..

[@richardpreece5384]

The actress playing Kate (although the acting is great) doesn't do it for me. That character is supposed to be so cold, she doesn't come across as evil as she should here. Deen pulls it off well as Caleb however.

[@sophie_turner217]

I prefer that her character is more layered but yes each to their own. :)

[@angeortizfelix5410]

Like I said again because I don't want to send this message has no what the country can do for you ask what you can do for your country F Kennedy sign John F Kennedy sign John F Kennedy

[@angeortizfelix5410]

THE .. 1960 OR 1961. JONH. F. K. . IS NOT WHAT TGE COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU. . ID WHAT YOU CAN DO.FOR YOUR COUNTRY.

[@seanfitzpatrick4730]

Jimmy Dean overrated by far

[@booyayafanny27]

Sean Fitzpatrick you have zero taste

[@jaimonjohn2516]

Well he is more famous than he should be I mean only done 3 films that made million years ago and still rememberd

[@shawneedalegrimm9728]

Ha!

[@shawneedalegrimm9728]

@@jaimonjohn2516 It's what he did and showed in those three films. It was obvious that this young man had, "it" and died, not showing us any more but what there is. Just because there were only three films does not mean he is more famous that he should be. Only my opinion. I see what you are saying though.

[@sharynstover1823]

Sean Fitzpatrick stfu