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
boys years waiting
Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, 'I've been waiting to meet you for half my life.'
rocks tree surfing
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
thinking feel-good done
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
beautiful crush new-york
Cary Grant and I were doing a play in New York. He had a crush on me. Whenever we went to a party, he would always sit on the floor beside me. I thought that was kind of beautiful, like that's where he wanted to be.
time care littles
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.
work thinking purpose
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.
hollywood
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
attitude book simple
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.
would-be enough scene
The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would be appropriate for that scene-so one take was enough.
time faces technique
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.
clothes shots pulling
There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.
daughter mother hurt
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.
down-and helping fingers
They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.
arms compulsive washed
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!