Edna Ferber’s novel of a Texas oilman’s life became the final outing for a film star trying to push past the rebel persona of ...

Dean was a 24-year-old angel-faced ingénu whose film debut (in the 1955 drama “East of Eden”) hadn’t even been released yet. Author Edna Ferber with actor James Dean on the set of ‘Giant ...

Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film, a new book by Edna Ferber’s ...

Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play Jett Rink ... those people I could get back and do anything on film,” he said. Moreover, Dean and Hudson butted heads as the two competed for Taylor ...

Back in L.A., after a few weeks shooting on location in Mendocino and Salinas, he entered, at the instigation of his agent, ...

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.

“Such a one was this young Jimmy Dean.” “Giant” began filming that May, 1955. It was a grueling shoot. Stevens made his actors come early and sit around in hair and makeup in the punishing Texas heat, ...

"Giant" was the third and final major film role for actor James Dean, who died in a car crash in 1955 at age 24.(Warner Bros.) Like film buffs everywhere, Texans mostly love George Stevens’ 1956 ...

“I think the key takeaway from this book is understanding James Dean as a human being, not just as an icon or a movie star. He was a real person, facing real challenges in a world that didn’t ...