[DOC] [TLE] Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Ferber's Giant ... [PAR] 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. [DOC] [TLE] Giant Reviews & Ratings - IMDb [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] Giant (1956 film) - Wikipedia [PAR] 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. [DOC] [TLE] Giant (1956) - User Reviews - TCM.com [PAR] 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... [DOC] [TLE] Giant (1956) - Articles - TCM.com [PAR] 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. [DOC] [TLE] Movie Review - - Screen: Large Subject; The Cast - NYTimes.com [PAR] In his much-touted color film version of Edna Ferber's big Texas novel, "Giant," 
which ... a surly hand who later becomes the most vulgar of the new crop of oil 
millionaires; ... who makes the malignant role of the surly ranch hand who 
becomes an oil baron the ... Jett Rink . . . . . James Dean Luz Benedict 2d . . . . . 
Carroll Baker [DOC] [TLE] Oil in Giant - University of Warwick [PAR] May 30, 2012 ... oil culture becomes postwar US culture, saturating aesthetic, .... other family 
members, a host of Chicano ranch hands, and Jett Rink, a poor ... who defends 
her novel against Texan criticism: 'Giant' is not a novel about .... Texas oil 
millionaires has been described in many a novel splashed with the adjective. [DOC] [TLE] GIANT and that Texas State of Mind  D Magazine [PAR] When Edna Ferber decided to tackle Texas in her novel, she had a captive ... 
band, we were a spawning ground for that crass new creature, the Texas oil 
millionaire. ... Although the Reata was modeled after the King Ranch, South 
Texas was ... so an artificial rig had to be constructed for the scene of Jett Rink's 
big oil strike. [DOC] [TLE] Giant - Film (Movie) Plot and Review - Publications - Film Reference [PAR] Giant - Film (Movie) Plot and Review - Publications on Film Reference. ... from the 
novel by Edna Ferber; photography: William C. Mellor and Edwin DuPar; .... Jett 
becomes rich, and eventually convinces Bick to invest in oil wells in addition to ... 
as well and even dates the person her father hates, the oil millionaire Jett Rink. [DOC] [TLE] The Man Who Was Texas | Vanity Fair [PAR] The inspiration for the James Dean character in Giant, Glenn McCarthy drilled ... 
Fortune's April issue went a step further, painting a portrait of oil millionaires .... 
had grown poor working on other men's wells, knew he

Question: Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel "Giant"
Answer: Edna Ferber