According to Kirk Douglas’ autobiography The Ragman’s Son, he and Angeli were engaged in the 1950s after meeting on the set of the film The Story of Three Loves (1953).[2] Angeli also had a passionate romantic relationship with James Dean. They met while she was shooting The Silver Chalice (1954)[3] and he was shooting East of Eden (1955), on an adjoining Warner lot. Elia Kazan, the director of East of Eden (1955), remembered hearing Dean and Angeli loudly making love in Dean’s dressing room.