DIVA DEAN Dean lobbied hard to play ranch hand-turned-oil baron Jett Rink (Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando were also considered). The actor, who aspired to be a director one day, was often at odds with Stevens (pictured with Dean), sometimes showing up late to shoots, and once, not at all. His performance is typically intense, full of tics and mumbles (after his death, some of his dialogue had to be rerecorded by actor Nick Adams). While he was forbidden to race cars during the shoot, just afterward he fatefully set off for a race in Salinas, Calif.