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Fay Wray Biography

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian actress most noted for playing the female lead in the 1933 film King Kong as Ann Darrow. 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".

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Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

Airline, Huh, Juan, Men, Names

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me. . . or is it vice versa?

Belongs, Building, Looks, New York, Though, Vices

Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

Background, Rocks, Surfing, Tree, Whole

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

Clothes, Horizontal, Kong, Shots

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.

Clutches, Faces, Technique, Time, Ugliness, Wax

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life. '

Boys, Half, Recently, Waiting, Years

Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.

Art, Cooper, Gable, Ideas, Men, Tallest

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?!

Daughter, Done, Imagine, Mother, Play

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

Amusing, Done, Paul, People, Work

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

Care, Close, Life, People, Say, Writing

My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

Attitude, Book, Fay, Like, Simple, Universe

As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?

Advice, Book, Collection, Next, Same, Say

I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

Gave, Purpose, Riskin, Thinking, Work

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

Afterlife, Age, Children, Enough, See

Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.

Look, Looks, Moving, Theater, Wonderful, Work

So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too comfortable all the time in those. I didn't really care for them.

Care, Horror, Littles, Series, Time

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

Book, Know, Letters, Love, Used

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Hollywood, Intelligence, Strength

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Make, Mother, Parent, Quality, Quite, Times

When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you. ' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

Daughter, Empire, Felt, Hurt, Mother, Said

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