Fay Wray Articles

Fay Wray, King Kong (top); hear Fay Wray's King Kong scream (middle); hear Janet Leigh's Psycho scream (bottom) Claire Bloom, Julie Harris, Mary Philbin, Jane Wyman: Top Ten Scream Queens Pt.2 5 – Janet Leigh, Psycho (1960). I don't recall myself recoiling in horror while watching Janet Leigh's shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, but I do recall quite vividly one night long ago when [...]

Tonight at 7:30 pm at UCLA's Festival of Preservation you'll be able to catch a screening of Fritz Lang's unfairly neglected Secret Beyond the Door (above), a 1947 noirish psychological melodrama starring Joan Bennett as woman married to Michael Redgrave, whom she suspects is out to kill her (possibly for her money). Unlike Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) and George Cukor's similarly themed Gaslight (1944), Secret [...]

Norma Shearer in The Barretts of Wimpole Street FILM The Barretts of Wimpole Street d: Sidney Franklin; scr: Ernest Vajda, Claudine West, Donald Ogden Stewart The Count of Monte Cristo d: Rowland V. Lee; scr: Philip Dunne, Dan Totheroh, Rowland V. Lee The Gay Divorcee d: Mark Sandrich; scr: George Marion Jr., Dorothy Yost, Edward Kaufman Hide-out d: W. S. Van Dyke; scr: Albert Hackett, [...]

Fay Wray Pt.1: KING KONG Star, Scream Queen of the 1930s Fay Wray (photo) was also featured opposite the fast-rising Gary Cooper in four movies: William A. Wellman's Legion of the Condemned (1928), Rowland V. Lee's romance The First Kiss (1928), John Cromwell's Western The Texan (1930), and Stephen Roberts' slice of nostalgia One Sunday Afternoon (1933). Unlike Cooper, however, Wray was never to become [...]