Video: 'George Stevens’s Giant New York Premiere (1956) documentary'

(Wednesday, October 10, 1956, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — Giant, an American epic Western drama film about a Texas ranching family that fights to survive changing times, premiered tonight at the Roxy Theatre at 153 West 50th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, just off Times Square in New York City.

Video: 'Giant' trailer

Directed by George Stevens, the film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, the late James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo and Dennis Hopper.

Video: 'Giant 1956 Elizabeth Taylor James Dean scene remastered 4k'

Giant was the last of Dean’s three films as a leading actor, and earned him his second and final Academy Award nomination – he was killed in a car crash on Sept. 30, 1955, at age 24.