If one compares Fay to Glenda Farrell in "Wax Museum", Fay's screams
are indeed robust and strong while Glenda's screaming is shrill & like
a frightened young girl seeing a mouse in the room.
--- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, "Beverly Anne" <isa48_17@y...> wrote:
> No doubt about it John, those screams were definitely Our Lady Fay's.
> It was the same roboast tonal quality, pitch, and disciplined control
> of Fay Wray in all the
> other films in which her screams were demanded for her role. No one
> else has been able
> to duplicate it. Almost operatic in nature.
>
> Her screams promoted a sense of sudden, unexpected horror laced with
> the indignity of
> having her dignity violated by that horror. This woman had class and
> did everything with
> class throughout her life, even throughout the mistakes she may have
> committed. She had
> class, dignity, and loved living. Especially her screams, had a
> touch of class.
>