James Dean "shared his deepest pain" with his 'Giant' costar Elizabeth Taylor and confided to her that his childhood priest ...

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 ...

I hope you rot in hell!” There was a bit of lore connected to Marfa, and therefore to Giant and James Dean. This was known as the Mystery Ghost Lights of Marfa. These Marfa night lights ...

Actor James Dean and actress Elizabeth Tayor on the set of the movie “Giant” in July 1955 in Marfa, Texas. (Photo by Richard C. Miller/Donaldson Collection/Getty Images) According to a ...

Dean, who was born on Feb. 8, 1931, grew up Fairmount, a town in north central Indiana. After graduating from high school, he moved to California, enrolling at UCLA to study drama before dropping out ...

Dean got a second posthumous nom for 1956’s Giant movie. Dean had been driving in his Porsche ... Chalamet, 29, performed the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. It is rather well known that the 1956 film Giant remains one of the ...

Giant was released the following year, and Dean received his second posthumous best actor Oscar nomination for his performance in it. (His first was for East of Eden.) "The story of James Dean is ...