Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant"
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Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Ferber's Giant ...  oil millionaires like Bick Benedict and Jett Rink, the originators and perpetu- ators of ... and racism intersected in another character, Jett Rink, the poor-white ranch hand who ends up .... Ferber may have suspected that Stevens would not adopt her book's incisive ... Jett becomes Leslie's educator in Texas social hierarchies.
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Giant (1956) - Articles - TCM.com  Read articles and publications about Giant, 1956, directed by George ... building a friendship with the despised ranch hand Jett Rink and tending to the ... eventually convincing him to drill for oil on Reata, the Benedict family ranch. .... Before McCambridge did her first location scenes, Dean tried to steal her hat for himself.
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Giant (1956 film) - Wikipedia  Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. ... Luz II, now in her teens, starts flirting with Jett. Once oil production starts on the ranch, the Benedict family becomes even wealthier and more powerful.
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Giant Reviews & Ratings - IMDb  Review: Giant success - Based on a novel by Edna Ferber, Giant is an appropriately ... from his early status in the film as a dirt-poor, uneducated ranch hand. ... Ranch hand Jett Rink (James Dean) falls into unrequited love with Leslie, uttering, ..... Dean strikes it rich and becomes an oil billionaire, but it's brought him no...
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Giant (1956) - User Reviews - TCM.com  Read user reviews of Giant, 1956, directed by George Stevens, with Elizabeth ... The movie GIANT is not as good as the book by Edna Ferber (one of my favorite writers.) ... How Texas went from cattle ranges to oil fields and how people started ... His character went from ranch hand to millionaire overnight when his well...
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Daughter of Fortune - Wikipedia  Daughter of Fortune is a novel by Isabel Allende, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club ... Country, English ... 1998 (Spanish) 1999 (English) ... Meanwhile, in Valparaiso, Rose and Jeremy are shocked to find that Eliza has disappeared. ... Meanwhile, as Joe Bonecrusher's business begins to dwindle, Tao finds Eliza...
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Oil! by Upton Sinclair  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists  In Oil! Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding ..... of World War I to the end of the Harding administration, particularly in relation to ... Twenties...think President Warren Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal. .... experience of THERE WILL BE BLOOD, I had to read the inspiration for the movie.
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Was Erin Brockovich, the single mother who claimed her town's ...  Jan 2, 2011 ... She was the single mother who claimed her town was poisoned by its water supply... ... Battle: Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich in the 2000 film, which was a Hollywood hit ... It was the biggest award of its kind in American legal history. ... Pay out: Pacific Gas & Electric paid $333 million (210 million) in an...
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Free Flashcards about AUTHORS - StudyStack  THIS 1962 NOVEL WAS PARTLY INSPIRED BY AN ASSAULT ON AUTHOR ANTHONY BURGESS' PREGNANT WIFE ..... THIS SCANDAL THAT STRUCK THE HARDING ADMINISTRATION INSPIRED UPTON SINCLAIR'S NOVEL "OIL!
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The Last Tycoon Summary & Study Guide - BookRags.com  The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a Hollywood producer who ... Cecilia, her father, and his business companions go into Stahr's office. ... Brady begins plotting against Stahr in order to force him out of the company, going as far ... which has continued despite her marriage, and hiring a man to kill Stahr.
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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka  Reviews, Discussion ...  Anne-Marie Noble Metamorphosis was first written by Ovid; it's about the changing of ..... The provider turns parasite, and in giving up his life, liberates his family. .... Translated from German, The Metamorphosis is the story of how Gregor ..... and discovers he has transformed into a some kind of a giant bug; he struggles to...
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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende. - Oprah.com  Learn more about the book and author. ... Announced February 17, 2000 ... The Daughter of Fortune is Eliza Sommers, a young Chilean girl of mysterious origins. .... The One Surprising Person You Need to Invite to Book Club .... She picks the chair that's smack in the middle of the circle and makes everybody feel as if they...
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Edna Ferber - Wikipedia  Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885  April 16, 1968) was an American novelist, short story writer ... Three of these works  Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk and Giant  have been ... In her early novel Dawn O'Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have ... Ferber did take a maternal interest in the career of her niece Janet Fox,...
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Riders of the Purple Sage - Reviews & Summaries - Books  Zane Grey first published this Western novel back in 1912, and it has ... Jane Withersteen has inherited a vast ranch with huge herds of cattle from her ... The plot points sound good on paper: Cattle rustlers, two couples falling in love and ... a man named Lassiter who has come looking for a friend of Withersteen's (who she...
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Moe. | nancynall.com  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24009286 I've tried to post this story about .... and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats. ...... I'll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of ... by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley's Lover...
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Giant  Hotel Paisano  Giant  was the last of James Dean's three films as a leading actor, and ... Nick Adams (actor) was called in to do some voice-over dubbing for Dean's ... Jett Rink (James Dean) works for Luz and hopes to find his fortune by ... **Nick Adams (actor)|Nick Adams recorded some of the character's dialogue after Dean's death.
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Giants in the Earth (novel) - Wikipedia  Giants in the Earth is a novel by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rlvaag. ... The books were based partly on Rlvaag's personal experiences as a settler as well as the experiences of his wife's family who had been immigrant...