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.” ‘ She had imagined someone brawnier for the movie ...

Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean on the set of 'Giant' in 1955. James Dean on the set of 1955's 'Rebel Without a Cause' One of the more significant relationships the book addresses is the one Dean had ...

Perhaps the most enduring scene in “Giant,” the 1956 movie based on Edna Ferber’s novel of the same name, is the moment when Jett Rink, played by James Dean, strikes oil on his bleak West Texas patch ...

One of the more significant relationships the book addresses is the one Dean had with Elizabeth Taylor, his costar in the 1956 film Giant. According to Colavito, the two got off to a somewhat rocky ...