Gary Cooper happened to be at Warner Brothers the day Mercedes McCambridge was doing hair and make-up tests. When he got a look at the brand new Stetson she was supposed to wear in this movie, he said, "You mean to sit there and tell me that a Texan woman who spends most of her waking hours in the middle of hundreds of head of cattle would be caught dead in that stupid store hat?" He called a wardrobe man with whom he had worked, and gave McCambridge an old hat he had worn in other movies. It even had his name in the band. When McCambridge noticed the water stains, she asked if it had been rained on. "Nope", he replied. "Peed on a lot. That's what makes it such a fine Texas hat. No self-respecting rancher wears a hat that his horse hasn't peed on." She wrote in her memoirs that James Dean tried to steal it.
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