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 ...

The Indiana-born James Dean only made three movies, “Giant,” “East of Eden” and “Rebel Without A Cause,” but they were enough to give him a reputation inside the movie business as one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In many ways he was the real-life rebel without a cause, an Oscar nominee and a classic film star who was filled with angst from ...

"Giant" began life as a best-selling 1952 novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber - a sprawling epic about the making of modern Texas, spanning three generations of a wealthy cattle-ranching family ...

Shrunken white tees, washed-out Levis, soft plaids — ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ Americana gets a reboot. By Jacob Gallagher In “Giant Love,” the novelist’s great-niece chronicles the Texas saga’s ...

Like film buffs everywhere, Texans mostly love George Stevens' 1956 film, Giant, a three-hour adaptation of the best-selling 1952 novel by Edna Ferber. In the new book Giant Love, Julie Gilbert - who ...