For the 1955-56 television season, Warner Bros. produced its first television series, Warner Bros. Presents, an umbrella title that covered a rotation of three different series, each based on a successful movie: Kings Row, Cheyenne, and Casablanca.
Each week, the hour-long Warner Bros. Presents program would commence with an episode of one of those three shows, then conclude with a 10- to 15-minute segment devoted to plugging an upcoming Warner Bros. film. One of those tail-end Warner Bros. Presents featurettes was devoted to the movie Giant, then still in production.
The Giant featurette had actor Gig Young, who hosted and narrated the Warner Bros. Presents series, interviewing members of the film’s cast while they were on the set. Young conducted one of those interviews with James Dean (in costume as his Giant character, farm hand Jett Rink) and plied the young actor with questions about his interest in auto racing. At the end of their brief exchange, Young asked, “Do you have any special advice for the young people who drive?” to which Dean responded, “Take it easy driving — uh, the life you might save might be mine”:
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Each week, the hour-long Warner Bros. Presents program would commence with an episode of one of those three shows, then conclude with a 10- to 15-minute segment devoted to plugging an upcoming Warner Bros. film. One of those tail-end Warner Bros. Presents featurettes was devoted to the movie Giant, then still in production.
The Giant featurette had actor Gig Young, who hosted and narrated the Warner Bros. Presents series, interviewing members of the film’s cast while they were on the set. Young conducted one of those interviews with James Dean (in costume as his Giant character, farm hand Jett Rink) and plied the young actor with questions about his interest in auto racing. At the end of their brief exchange, Young asked, “Do you have any special advice for the young people who drive?” to which Dean responded, “Take it easy driving — uh, the life you might save might be mine”:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/advice-not-taken/
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2013/11/qi-is-like-tywkiwdbi-on-steroids.html
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