Behind the Scenes in James Dean’s Classic ‘Giant’
Edna Ferber didn’t want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the wild farm hand turned millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel Giant. ‘ She had envisioned someone bolder for the film adaptation. At least someone more famous! Dean was an angelic-faced 24-year-old engineer whose film debut (in the 1955 drama East of Eden) had … Read more