Sixty years later, George Stevens’s intimate epic Giant still seems like a wondrous anomaly: sweeping saga of American prosperity that reveals its racist underbelly; glorious star vehicle that ...

On Nov. 24, 1956, George Stevens’ 195-minute epic Giant hit theaters. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the film, which nabbed 10 Academy Award nominations, is below.

Elsa Cardenas ( right) was taken aback by discrimination 60 years ago while filming Giant in Marfa. She played the nursing student who marries Dennis Hopper’s character.(George Stevens ...

But Stevens — who spotted him on the Warner Bros. lot twirling a lasso — thought his counterintuitive casting could bring some added frisson to the movie. “Giant” began filming that May, 1955.

When George Stevens convinced three of Hollywood’s hottest stars to head over to West Texas to create a movie, he couldn’t have predicted it would result in an epic drama that ended in tragedy.

"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 ...

Pilar Del Rey, Actress in ‘Giant,’ Dies at 95. She portrayed Sal Mineo’s mom in the Oscar best picture nominee directed by George Stevens.

This undated photo provided by courtesy of the George Stevens Collection shows, Elsa Cardenas, right, as the Mexican American nursing student âJuanaâ who marries âJordan Benedict,â played by ...

Ten years ago, when George Stevens Jr. was tidying up his father’s affairs after his death, the task took him to a Bekins storage unit on Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles. In the opening of G… ...

AFI founder George Stevens Jr. stands next to a poster of his father’s film, ‘Giant,’ and a poster for his brainchild, the Kennedy Center Honors, in his office at the Kennedy Center in ...