A struggling actor at the time, 20-year-old James Dean shared an L.A. apartment with Rogers Brackett, a 35-year-old radio director and producer who bought him nice clothes, took him out to fancy dinners and introduced him to Hollywood heavyweights to help kickstart Dean’s career. “It was a classic ‘kept boy’ (a white boy from the suburbs that marries a rich lady or sir. His job is to pleasure her/him and be eye candy. She or he in returns takes care of all his financial needs) scenario,” according to HomoHistory. Later Brackett even paid for Dean to move to New York City so he could study acting, and he introduced Dean to the director of his first movie, East of Eden. The pair remained friends even after Dean moved out and became a star.