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          Actress Elsa Cárdenas treasures 'Giant' role

          Elsa Cárdenas was a teenaged Mexican actress when she got the call she had dreamed of since the age of 4.

          On that day, she learned that she had been cast in her first Hollywood movie, “Giant.” It was a day that led, she said, to “the most memorable experience” of her life.

          “I was in Mexico City, working on a picture … .

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        4. Elsa Cardenas (far right) as the Mexican American nursing student “Juana” who marries “Jordan Benedict,” played by Dennis Hopper, in “Giant.

          5. The banker who was backing the picture told me his friend worked at Warner Bros.,” Cárdenas said from her home in Mexico City. “He told me they were looking for a Mexican girl for ‘Giant,’” the epic movie from 1956 about a wealthy Texas ranching family, based on the novel by Edna Ferber.

          Cárdenas said she was asked to submit photos to the studio, which she did, but after a few weeks she had not heard back.

          Never one to give up on her dream, she traveled to Los Angeles to visit her aunt, and …

          “I called George Stevens and told him I was in L.A. and asked why I hadn’t received an answer,” Cárdenas said. “He calle