Giant

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I would have done anything for him.

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So that's how I got into Giant.

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I never once told him the part was small.

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I didn't have the guts after that.
I was thrilled to be working with him.

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My history with Giant was
that I had graduated from college...

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and was supposed to go
into the Air Force...

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but the Korean War ended,
so I had one year with nothing to do.

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I spent most of that year
working with my father on the screenplay.

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He and Fred Guiol and lvan Moffat
would meet each day...

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out in Dad's apartment
on Riverside Drive...

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in North Hollywood,
and we'd sit and work on the screenplay.

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Then my time came
to go into the Air Force...

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and I had time to serve
my two years in the Air Force...

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visit the locations
in Charlottesville, Virginia...

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Marfa, Texas, and here at the studio...

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serve my time and get out
just in time to work with my father...

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on the completion of the editing...

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the scoring of the music with
Dimitri Tiomkin here on the Warner lot...

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and the release of the picture.

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I was in Marfa for about six weeks.

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I remember when I arrived there....
It's out in the middle of nowhere.

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It's a tiny little town. A cattle town.

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One of the really strange things about it...

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is that Marfa was so small,
and we had a very large crew...

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and a very large cast.

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There weren't really
any living accommodations.

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A lot of people had to live
quite far out of town.

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I lived in a house
with five of the actresses...

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Fran, who played my sister,
and Jane Withers...

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and Mercedes McCambridge.

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I'm trying to think who else.
I was one of them, of course.

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There was one other.
Five of us in this house.

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I had just recently been married.

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I was only married like four months.
My husband couldn't come to visit.

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This was a house of all girls,
and there was no place to put him up.

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I'm not sure he quite believed me
when I said this.