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Pilar Del Rey Dies: Actor In ‘Giant’ & Dozens Of Classic TV Shows Was 95
Pilar Del Rey, who appeared in the 1955 epic 'Giant' and guested on dozens of classic TV series, died February 25 of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was 95.
In George Stevens’ 1956 epic Giant, Del Rey played the sickly Mrs. Obregon, who is cared for along with her baby by Taylor’s Leslie Benedict as an impatient Jett Rink (Dean) tries to rush her. Leslie’s learning of the local Mexican ranch workers’ living conditions and the racist attitudes toward them is a key early plot point in the film, which drew nine Oscar noms including Best Picture. Del Rey went on to appear in a 1953 episode of TV’s Hopalong Cassidy and in such films as And Now Miguel(1953), The Siege at Red River(1954) and Black Horse Canyon(1954) before landing the Giant role.
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