Actor and director James Darren, best-known for his role in the ... It was in the same area of teen idols of the 1950s and ’60s as Fabian and Frankie Avalon. Darren married his first wife ...

Darren was born James Ercolani in 1936 and grew up in South Philadelphia, not far from such fellow teen idols of the 1950s and ’60s as Fabian and Frankie Avalon. Singing came easy to him ...