<P> Stevens gave Hudson a choice between Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly to play his leading lady, Leslie . Hudson chose Taylor . </P> <P> After James Dean's death late in production, Nick Adams overdubbed some of Dean's lines, which were nearly inaudible, as Rink's voice . George Stevens had a reputation as a meticulous film editor, and the film spent an entire year in the editing room . </P> <P> The film begins with Jordan "Bick" Benedict, played by Hudson, arriving at Ardmore, Maryland, to purchase a stallion from the Lynnton family . The first part of the picture was actually shot in Albemarle County, Virginia, and used the Keswick, Virginia, railroad station as the Ardmore railway depot . Much of the subsequent film, depicting "Reata", the Benedict ranch, was shot in and around the town of Marfa, Texas, and the remote, dry plains found nearby, with interiors filmed at the Warner Brothers studios in Burbank, California . The "Jett Rink Day" parade and airport festivities were filmed at the Burbank Airport . </P> <P> During the restaurant fight scene at the film's end, the jukebox plays The Yellow Rose of Texas by Mitch Miller . That version of the song happened to be the #1 pop single on the Billboard Magazine Best Sellers chart at the time of James Dean's death . </P>

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