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Author Topic: Fay Wray dies at age 96 Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 08-09-2004 03:23 PM                     Fay Wray, of "King Kong" fame, has died in her Manhatten apartment at the age of 96. Apparently she just drifted off sitting in her chair. I won't post an article as it will be easy to find. RIP, and thank you. Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged Aaron Garman Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1470 From: Toledo, OH USA Registered: Mar 2003 posted 08-10-2004 01:27 AM                     RIP I wonder what she would have thought of the new King Kong coming out? I guess we'll never know. AJG  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-10-2004 01:39 AM                        Fay Wray was really a cool lady. She made about 100 movies, from silents to the early talkies. It was difficult for a lot of early talkie actors to get across solid, personal characterizations, & especially for women, but Fay Wry worked it very well. She's in a number of early Warners talkies, some with Cagney, holding things up against the limitations of early sound tech & staging problem. She had a great outlook on life, bopped around hitting conventions, didn't get old, bitter, reclusive, or stagnant, & kept doing a lot of fun things. She lived in NYC in 'retirement', & Tuesday night they're turning off the lights on the Empire State Building for ten minutes to honor her. She was a lot of fun, & had a lot of fun herself.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-10-2004 03:19 AM                     Well, at least we now know whatever happened to her... danny  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-10-2004 03:44 AM                     Hmmmmmm, RHPS reel #6, Dr. Frank-n-furter?  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-10-2004 03:51 AM                  You turd! You been watching that print? >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-10-2004 04:09 AM                     Nope, ran the movie way too many times in past years.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 08-10-2004 04:09 AM                     you sure? I swear that's in reel 5. I know reel 6 starts with the number "i'm going home".  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-10-2004 05:38 PM                        I understand that Wray's character in King Kong was based on that of Marguerite Harrison in Grass, and that the opening scene in the film - in which the Merian C. Cooper caricature only agrees reluctantly to 'recruit' Wray because he admits that an exploration documentary on its own wouldn't make good box-office - was also a reference to Grass. Harrison was reported to be monumentally off-pissed at the resulting film on account of the Wray character being essentially a dumb blonde. quote: Aaron Garman I wonder what she would have thought of the new King Kong coming out? I guess we'll never know. Presumably her thoughts about the 1970s remake are on record somewhere: I also presume that this film has been indefinitely shelved by whoever owns the rights, because of the climax in which Kong climbs up one of the Twin Towers. Personally I thought that replacing the '20s ethnographic explorer with a '70s oil industry exploitation was quite a clever reworking, and that most of the updated jokes (e.g. 'Wow, he'll beat the shit out of 'We'll put a tiger in your tank!'') work. I wonder what equivalent scenario Jackson is using in his version.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-11-2004 01:37 AM                        The 70s Kong ran last year at the State Palace in New Orleans; the print was mag, brittle, & vari-pink.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-11-2004 01:51 AM                  If yous are talkin' 'bout the 1976 version. What a POS! I'm ashamed to say that I worked on that lame excuse for a remake! I wish a pox on all involved! Ummm... except me, of course! HA! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged

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