Garrett Hedlund gained 30 lbs for his role as Patroclus. He gained an additional 20 lbs for his role in Friday Night Lights (2004) which got him up to 200 pounds; he normally weighs 145.
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Shelley Winters tried out for the role of Vashti Snythe.
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Included amongst the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies, though it did not make the 2007 version.
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor forged a close bond with James Dean. Some nights they would sit up late as he vented his frustrations with his life as an actor, the restrictions of Hollywood life, and past traumas. Unlike Rock Hudson, however, he rarely acknowledged their closeness on-set, often ignoring her completely after a night of baring his soul to her.
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James Dean refused to undergo a lengthy make-up process for his later scenes, claiming "a man of forty-five shows his age in thoughts and actions, not in wrinkles." He only allowed them to gray his temples and put a few lines on his forehead.
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Off-screen, James Dean called Mercedes McCambridge "Madama", his character's nickname for her in this movie.
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor was said to be so upset the day after James Dean was killed that she was excused from working on this movie for the day.
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The massive painting seen on the set of the Benedict house is now in the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas. It has hung in several spots in the original 1800s section of the hotel.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, the usual policy for movies where characters would start young and get older was to cast older actors and actresses and de-age them to show them as their younger selves. This movie took the then largely radical step of doing the opposite - casting younger actors and actresses and using make-up to make them appear older.
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James Dean objected to being kept waiting for his scenes. After being called to the set three days in a row without being used at all, he skipped his next call. When George Stevens objected, he argued that with the amount of preparation he did to create his character's emotional life, it was gruelling to be kept waiting that long. Although not really sympathetic to the Method Acting Dean had learned at the Actor's Studio, Stevens tried to keep him on a more reasonable schedule after that.
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According to Rock Hudson and Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the day after James Dean's death was announced, producer and director George Stevens required a distraught and inconsolable Taylor to complete reaction shots for a scene she had played with Dean, and that she never forgave him.
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Richard Burton was interested in the role of Jett Rink.
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Except for Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson, who stayed in rented houses, everybody else in the cast and crew stayed at Marfa's one hotel. Although conditions on the set were gruelling, the days actors and actresses weren't working were worse, as the small town (population 3,600) offered almost nothing to do.
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In 1956, Rock Hudson starred in two movies that are often cited as major influences on television soap operas: this one and Written on the Wind (1956).
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Features Rock Hudson's only Oscar nominated performance.
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Vera Miles and Natalie Wood were considered for Lacey Lynnton. Fran Bennett tried out for the role, but was instead cast as Judy Benedict.
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John Wayne, William Holden, Forrest Tucker, Sterling Hayden, Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, Tyrone Power, Robert Taylor, Jeff Chandler, Victor Mature, Gordon MacRae, Charles Bronson, James Stewart, Burt Lancaster, and Kirk Douglas were considered for the part of Jordan "Bick" Benedict, Jr.
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Pier Angeli, Rita Moreno, and Gloria Rhoads were considered for the role of Juana Guerra Benedict.
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James Dean called the shooting style of producer and director George Stevens the "around the clock" method, because Stevens would film a scene from as many different angles as possible, which made everything seem to take longer to do.
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Elsa Cardenas, playing Juana Guerra, has a striking resemblance to Elizabeth Taylor. That might explain why Dennis Hopper, who appears as Elizabeth Taylor's son, has such an immediate romantic reaction to her.
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