Fay Wray
Fay Wray
Vina Fay Wraywas a Canadian-born American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles. She was one of the first "scream queens"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth15 September 1907
CityCardston, Canada
CountryUnited States of America
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When I did try to express myself it came out pretty tinny, but even so they could understand what I was saying. That turned out to be a plus.
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There was a friend of my husband, John Monk Saunders, who was in charge of the sound department, which was a kind of reassuring thing.
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I thought maybe he would like me to do WILSON, and he was hoping that I wouldn't. It was several days before we came to an open understanding.
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Now the copyright has been extended 20 years, but prior to that they paid no attention to these people, and some of them really need help.
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It was so satisfying for me-a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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It was such a sweet relief to me, because I had always worked, I had always worked, I had always worked-and it was time to do something else.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
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Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.
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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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They moved him with animation, you know, stop-motion. And then they had a huge rubber arm with a steel cable in side large enough to hold me.