From:   "Dik de Heer" 
Date:  Thu Jan 10, 2002  1:16 am
Subject:  Born To Be With You : Sal Mineo

SAL MINEO

Born Salvatore Mineo, 10 January, 1939, The Bronx, New York City
Died 12 February, 1976, Hollywood, California

Actor / singer. 

The huge success of Tab Hunter's "Young Love"
encouraged other labels to sign popular young actors to recording
contracts. Liberty signed Robert Wagner, Capitol went after Robert
Mitchum and Columbia's Epic subsidiary got lucky with Sal Mineo,
whose "Start Movin' (In My Direction)" made # 9 on the Billboard
charts in May 1957. Three other top 50 hits followed in 1957-58.
Mineo's film credits include "Rebel Without A Cause", "Rock Pretty
Baby" and "Exodus". He continued making films during the 1960s
and also returned to stage work, having debuted on Broadway at
the age of twelve. He directed and starred in "Fortune And Men's
Eyes", a play which reflected Mineo's own homosexuality.
He was returning home from the theatre when he was stabbed to
death in a Hollywood street in 1976.

Website: http://www.salmineo.com
Book: H. Paul Jeffers, Sal Mineo : his life, murder and mystery.
New York : Carroll & Graf, 2000.