----- Original Message -----

From: Steven Bingen

To: faywray@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 2:10 PM

Subject: Re: [FayWray] Fay Wray's dress

Steve here, (the brave soul who started all this pink-dress-white dress stuff!)

 

Well, as interesting as all this is, I have to offer fair warning that as of Friday, Dec. 7 (It's hard not to speak these words like FDR while writing a sentence like this!) it became a moot point. I spoke to my friend at Warner Home video who told them that the dress was "pink, with a white collar and black buttons." And that her eyes were green for good measure!  I didn't know we'd get so many dissenting opinions at the time.

 

I also don't know if they are going to use the information, although it's a good sign that they actually asked and maybe it's just as well that we present a unified front, right or wrong. (makes it seem like we ah, know what we're talking about) If anyone has any other strong opinions or ideas for this magnum-opus DVD I might be able to pass them along as well though.

 

This has all got me to thinking--does anyone have any ideas why Ann Darrow wasn't dressed in the "Beauty and the Beast costume" in the climatic NY sequences. Wouldn't it have made sense, thematically and all?

 

Steve

 

----- Original Message -----

From: jose gomez reguera

Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 1:49 AM

To: faywray@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [FayWray] Fay Wray's dress

 

Somehow I have the uneasy feeling that "brucecabot" is, in reality, an impostor!  Be that as it may, however, there is an important point that both he and his lady friend are missing, i.e whatever Ann Darrow's sense of fashion might have been, it was Carl Denham who picked out her wardrobe "in Broadway shops that were still open". Being as ruthlessly assertive as he was, I doubt if he even contemplated asking Ann's opinion. 

 

Jose 

----- Original Message -----

From: brucecabot

To: faywray@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:02 PM

Subject: [FayWray] Fay Wray's dress

This is terrific. From our impassioned responses to Steve Bingen's
query on the color of one dress, the profound impact of Fay Wray in
general and of her most famous movie in particular on our psyches is
very apparent.
Brad, you brought up an excellent point- there is one person who can
settle this with a word. Somehow, though, asking her directly- I just
cannot imagine capturing her attention and asking her such a minor
question. And yet I can picture this beautiful lady smiling in
amusement over our Great Debate.
To think that the dress we're discussing is only one of seven outfits
she wore in KK. One would have to study this movie almost frame by
frame to know this. (I plead guilty.) However, she spends more time
in this one than in the other six combined.
I showed a lady friend of mine from work our diverse opinions. She
ponited out, quite correctly, that so far only males have ventured
opinions. She then said that we fellows know nothing of feminine
fashion, and that it's very obvious that the dress in question is
pale blue!! (I told her that, in order to make her opinion really
count, she must join the Pages as a member.)
So no one told you it would be easy, Mr. Bingen. So far- 2 votes for
pink, 1 for off-white, 1 for blue. And by the way, a sincere thank
you for making us feel that our opinions matter- that's the nicest
thing of all about this.   



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