http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2006/12/film-criticism-blogathonphillip-
lopate.html

An Exceprt from "Phllip Lopate: American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the
Silents
Until Now"

"Lopate then compared what Cecilia Ager had to say about King Kong. "Another
writer of
the 1930s, Cecilia Ager, covered what was considered the woman's angle. She
would write
movie criticism with a great emphasis on women's fashions, on women's parts. She
was
really writing about the parts that women were assigned and the ways that they
were
construed." He quoted Ager: "Despite all her experience with picture beasties,
Fay Wray
can't seem to condition herself against the horrid old things. She's just as
terrified at King
Kong, she screams quite as shrilly as if she couldn't remember from her past
encounters
that she will surely be saved at the end. She won't learn, Miss Wray, she won't
learn. All
that's come of her former run-ins with monsters is the overnight change of her
hair from
black to blonde, but it doesn't help. The curious attraction she has for
man-beast combos
is not to be denied by superficial hair-color transformation. It's made matters
even worse
for her. Blonde, she looks even more the part of Beauty in the fable, Beauty and
the Beast,
so what can the beast do but act good and beasty." (2006:79)

***VERY GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK UP STEVE...It seems some critics can only criticize
Our Lady Fay because she appeared in some (actually very few monster movies).
They
have concentrated on only this aspect of the career of a serious and talented
actress and
have her penalized for all cinema history as the blonde woman from K.K.

Unfortunately for them, they have just helped immortalized her even more...