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El Paisano Hotel [2] is a historic hotel located in Marfa, Texas, United States.The hotel was designed by Trost & Trost and opened in 1930. The hotel may be best known as the location headquarters for the cast and crew of the film Giant (1956) for six weeks in the summer of 1955 [3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1978.
Giant is a 1956 American epic drama film directed by George Stevens, from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel. [2]The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor, Elsa Cárdenas and Earl Holliman.
Various movie productions have filmed in and around parts of Marfa. The 1950 film High Lonesome and the 1956 Warner Bros. film Giant were filmed in Marfa. [citation needed] In August 2006, two films were partially shot in Marfa: There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men. [24] [25] Larry Clark's 2012 film Marfa Girl was filmed exclusively ...
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A description of mid-1950s Marfa appears in “George Stevens, A Life on Film,” Marilyn Ann Moss’ biography of the man who directed the 1956 epic “Giant.” The film, starring Elizabeth ...
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The Riata house and exteriors for Giant, released 1956, were filmed at Marfa. [62] [63] [64] The big stars, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, and others stayed at the Hotel Paisano for two months. High Lonesome, released in 1950, starring Chill Wills and John Drew Barrymore, was filmed in Antelope Springs, near Marfa. [65]
[6] [7] He raised 200,000 Texas Longhorn cattle. [3] The ranch has been used by the movie industry since the 1950s. For example, Giant was shot on the ranch in 1956. [3] More recently, it was used as a shooting location for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada in 2005, [7] followed by There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men in 2007. [3]