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There I saw, a few minutes later...
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Jimmy Dean come up on his motorcycle.
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Interesting,
because I guess a lot of people...
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are on motorcycles these days,
but it was kind of...
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a big, exciting thing for someone
to be on a motorcycle then.
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He put me on the back
and drove me around the lot.
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Showed me the lot.
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Mr. Stevens used to say
I was sort of the hostess...
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and the heart and soul.
In his autograph to me in my book...
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he said,
"You're the heart and soul of Giant."
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He never wanted me to leave very much.
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He always wanted me to stay around
on the set, even when I wasn't working.
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So I felt I was very helpful to Earl...
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when he first came in on the picture.
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I got a call from my agent.
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I had done a movie called Broken Lance
with Spencer Tracy, playing his son.
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George Stevens was looking for...
:28:55
Iocations where they could shoot Giant.
:28:58
They were running Broken Lance
to look at Nogales, New Mexico.
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I understand that George, when he saw
me doing one of the scenes I was doing...
:29:09
with Spencer Tracy...
:29:13
turned to his assistant and said,
"I want to use that boy in Giant."
:29:17
So he called my agent,
and my agent called me...
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and told me, and I got
the book immediately and read it.
:29:25
They said they wanted me
for the role of Bob Dace.
:29:29
Bob Dace is mentioned once in the book.
:29:32
He's four years old.
He's out picking mountain oysters...
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when they're making steers
out of the bulls.
:29:43
I thought,
"That's not a part. That's no part."
:29:48
They said, eventually,
that George wanted to see me.
:29:51
They had, in the meantime,
started shooting the film in Virginia...
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and I had to come back
to do the interiors of the Virginia stuff...
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at the studio, at Warner Brothers.