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Edna Ferber did not want James Dean to play Jett Rink, the brutish ranch hand turned dissolute millionaire oil magnate from her 1952 novel “Giant.” ‘
Dean could be impudent, moody. His petulance and inconsistent acting style frequently annoyed his costars and infuriated his directors. But he turned on the charm for Ferber.“Occasionally — rarely — one encounters a dazzling human being who is obviously marked for destruction,” she later wrote. “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, even if they did not have any scenes.The film classic ‘Giant’ made James Dean a star. A new book details the complex relationships on and off the set between dean, co-stars Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson — along with the novel’s author Edna Ferber.Once, before shooting a scene with Taylor, he stepped away and urinated on the ground.
So Stevens did not find his diva attitude amusing or warranted. Ferber was in Alaska, researching her next book while the cast and crew toiled away in Marfa, yet she frequently asked about “Jimmy” and fretted over his “errant ways.”They dined together. On set, he would make her laugh and taught her to twirl a lasso.
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