Did anyone catch her last night on TCM's docu on
Merian C. Cooper?

Dave Lewis

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> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:31:16 -0000
> From: "Beverly Anne" <isa48_17@...>
> Subject: Re: Fay Wray and Peter Jackson
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> Hey John,
> Glad you caught that article...I think it shows a
> lot more into possibly what may have been
> had Our Lady Fay lived a little longer to this
> December. Very interesting.
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> I just spent this last week writing this article
> review of "kaba,Kaba Kong 1933-Myth or
> Classic? It was my way of mentioning The Fay Wray
> Pages and Steve's work in order
> to keep a real legendary classic, F.W., in the
> forefront always and forever!
> If anyone is interested, please go to....
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> --- In faywray@yahoogroups.com, "John Weber"
> <oneders63@y...> wrote:
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> > Hi!
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> > New KONG director Peter Jackson talks about
> meeting Fay in the
> > following article from SciFi.com:
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http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=33122
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> > The text of the article follows below, in case the
> above link doesn't
> > work.
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> > Wray's Spirit Lives In KONG
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> > Peter Jackson, director of the upcoming King Kong
> remake, told SCI FI
> > Wire that original Kong actress Fay Wray offered
> current star Naomi
> > Watts valuable insights into the role, but sadly
> died before she
> > could appear in the remake herself. "Naomi does
> channel Fay Wray a
> > little bit, because she met Fay as well," Jackson
> said in a news
> > conference beamed by satellite from New Zealand in
> September. "We
> > organized a dinner, and Naomi and [Jackson's wife
> and co-writer] Fran
> > [Walsh] and I met with Fay, and we spent a
> fantastic evening with her
> > and asked her lots of questions ... about what it
> was like to act in
> > the '30s. Because, obviously, Ann Darrow, who's
> the character that
> > we're talking about, ... is an actress in the
> 1930s, and Naomi was
> > playing this role, and she had an opportunity to
> talk to Fay Wray."
> >
> > Watts plays actress Ann Darrow in Jackson's update
> of the 1933
> > classic SF movie, in which Wray played the same
> character. Jackson
> > added that they were less interested in what it
> was like to have
> > appeared in the original King Kong than they were
> in Wray's real life
> > as a Depression-era movie actress. "She was in
> something like 12 or
> > 13 movies in 1933," Jackson said. "She had a
> husband who sent her out
> > to work all the time, because her husband gambled
> and spent all the
> > money. ... But she was full of really interesting
> ... insights
> > into ... what that world was like. ... I just
> recognize little bits
> > of Fay in Naomi's performance, and I think that's
> deliberate."
> >
> > Jackson said that he also approached Wray to make
> a cameo appearance
> > herself in his King Kong. She refused, at least at
> first. "My
> > original ... hope was to have Fay saying the last
> line in the
> > film: 'Beauty killed the beast.' ... It's a line
> that happens when
> > Kong's body is lying on the street, and there's a
> crowd gathering
> > around at the end of the movie, and I was just
> going to cut to an old
> > lady as part of the crowd saying that line, and
> ... my hope was to
> > have Fay doing that. ... I met her several times,
> and she was first
> > all saying 'No. No.' ... I was hoping for a
> slightly more interesting
> > response. ... I met her three or four [more]
> times, and by the time I
> > met her for the ... last time, which was only
> about a month before
> > she died, she squeezed my hand, and she smiled,
> and she says: 'Never
> > say never. Never say never.' ... She was warming
> up to the idea. And
> > I think she would've probably done it. And we
> would have just gone to
> > her hotel in New York and ... put up a blue screen
> and shot a shot of
> > her. It would have been all very simple to do. And
> we were heading in
> > that direction. But, unfortunately, it wasn't to
> be."
> >
> > Wray died on Aug. 8, 2004, at the age of 96. King
> Kong, which is in
> > post-production, opens Dec. 14.
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