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When Dad first talked with Jimmy Dean...
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about playing Jett Rink...
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Jimmy had been here on the lot
at Warner Brothers...
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and used to hang around the office...
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and would come over wearing costumes
that he thought suggested Jett Rink.
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It was a part he really wanted to play.
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It was a gamble.
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He was young. They were talking
about Montgomery Clift...
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and more experienced actors.
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I thought that Jimmy was a terrific actor.
I really did.
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He believed in bringing
as much of himself...
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to the part as possible.
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There were a lot ofstories
about how kooky he was...
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because he spent all his time
with the cowboys.
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He was roping, he was riding.
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He was learning how to shoot a rifle
for the first time.
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Actually, that was all research for the film.
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Out of it came a wonderful cowboy walk.
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The way he was able to use the rope...
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which we have talked about,
in the porch scene.
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The speech pattern,
the way he wore his hat.
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I don't think he ever took off the clothes.
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He had this pink shirt,
this pink cowboy shirt...
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that he just loved and adored,
and I don't blame him.
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It was a neat cowboy shirt.
Very simple, very plain.
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He wore it, and wore it,
and I said, "Jimmy!
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"When's the last time
you had that shirt cleaned?"
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He said, "They lost two of my shirts
at the laundry.
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"I'm not going to let them get this one."
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I said, "Listen, sonny boy,
you go in the other room...
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"and there's a terrycloth bathrobe
of mine. Go put that on.
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"I just took it out of the dryer.
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"You put that on,
and you give me that pink shirt."
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He said,
"What are you going to do with it?"
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I said, "I'm going to wash it,
that's what I'm going to do."
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I washed his pink shirt by hand...