In GIANT LOVE, author/playwright Julie Gilbert, Ferber's great-niece, explores Ferber's writing of the controversial international bestseller, "Giant." The novel set off a storm of protest over its ...

There have been many stories about Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean bonding during the production of George Stevens’ epic “Giant” in Marfa, Texas, in 1955. Though not exactly a “Harold & Maude” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conducting refreshingly engaging interviews with top Hollywood stars. Dec 02, 2024, 10:00am EST James Dean in conversation with ...

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas and the Making of a Classic American Film; By Julie Gilbert; Pantheon; 386 pp., $35.00 Ferber, however, won literary acclaim when few women ...

"Giant" was the third and final major film role for actor James Dean, who died in a car crash in 1955 at age 24. Warner Bros. Like film buffs everywhere, Texans mostly love George Stevens’ 1956 film, ...

Author Julie Gilbert will discuss her latest book about novelist Edna Ferber in a pair of upcoming events. Because Gilbert is Edna Ferber's great niece, she had access to a trove of private documents ...

GREAT SON—Edna Ferber—Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If, as Edna Ferber once remarked, “writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud,” she is easily one of the world’s most ...

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 ...

In her day, Edna Ferber was one of America’s most famous and successful writers, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. “Show Boat,” the much revived musical, is based on her novel. “Stage Door,” the ...

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 ...

ICE PALACE (411 pp.)—Edna Ferber—Doubleday ($4.50). At 70, Edna Ferber is still not over the bestseller habit, even though her books relentlessly suggest that bestsellers do not make the best reading.