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Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-born American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles. She was one of the first "scream queens".
After appearing in minor movie roles, Wray gained media attention being selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars". This led to her being contracted to Paramount Pictures as a teenager, where she made more than a dozen movies. After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles among many other types of roles, including in The Bowery (1933) and Viva Villa (1934), both huge productions starring Wallace Beery. For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong (1933). After the success of King Kong, Wray made numerous appearances in both film and television before retiring in 1980.
Actors: Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher (actor), Warner Baxter (actor), Richard Barthelmess (actor), Wallace Beery (actor), El Brendel (actor), Joe E. Brown (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (actor), Maurice Chevalier (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Richard Dix (actor), Pete the Dog (actor), Stuart Erwin (actor), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor), William Haines (actor),
Plot: Star-packed promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanatorium, produced in association with a cigarette company! Plot involves the investigation of the reported theft of Norma Shearer's jewelry.
Keywords: detective, dog, jewels, laurel-and-hardy, police-chief, police-sergeant, sergeantBilly Crystal and Fay Wray introduce presenters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998.
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The Joe Franklin Show guest Fay Wray. Also Charlotte Chandler and Paul Mandell.
A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole.
Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas star in this Phil Rosen directed thriller based on a story by Dashiell Hammet. The story looks at the dark side of corruption in a small town.
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The Joe Franklin Show guest Fay Wray. Also Charlotte Chandler and Paul Mandell.
A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole.
Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas star in this Phil Rosen directed thriller based on a story by Dashiell Hammet. The story looks at the dark side of corruption in a small town.
The Most Dangerous Game (1932). Scream Queen Fay Wray stars in this classic thriller about a couple who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a psycho big game hunter who decides that they will be his next prey. Watch horror movies at http://www.fullhorror.com
American horror movie starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. Majestic Pictures cashed in on the success of Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, who had been a sensation in the Technicolor thriller Doctor X and had already completed Mystery of the Wax Museum, which was also being heavily promoted at the time. Majestic was able to get this film into theaters over a month before th...
Welcome back to the Schlocky Horror Picture Show, and me, Nigel Honeybone. Don't worry, I'm not going to carry on with the clairvoyance jokes, but of course you knew I was going to say that...I'm sorry, I just can't seem to stop... Anyway, what drew audiences to The Evil Mind, a Gainsborough Picture, was it's stars. So, who is really the greatest Scream Queen of all time? Is it Barbara Steele or Ingrid Pitt, who starred in many classic horror movies of the sixties? Or could it be the lovely Elsa Lancaster who portrayed the ultimate female fantastic creation in Bride of Frankenstein, or screamers like Carolyn Munroe, Leanna Quigley, or Sybil Danning? Who can claim so many horror projects in their busiest years? Well, all these women are worthy names to toss around, but for many the individ...
The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop Watch The Vampire Bat | Hollywood Full Length 1933 Classic Movie. Subscribe Us For More Hollywood Movies, Videos, Traliors & More https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_kZkohCJURAQLwzzOUtBhA?sub_confirmation=1
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
From the makers of "King Kong" comes another island jungle thriller. In this film a bored big game hunter takes up hunting humans for sport. He lures shipwrecked people to his isolated island home in order to hunt them down.
Kings of Horror presents: The Vampire Bat When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. NOTICE: All of the films uploaded to Kings of Horror are legally licensed, and we have the exclusive YouTube rights for specific territories. Any copyright inquiries should be sent to hello@kingsofhorror.com.
Billy Crystal and Fay Wray introduce presenters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998.
Short scene from Rick McKay's upcoming documentary film FAY WRAY, made as a tribute to his good friend, the legendary actress and star of KING KONG, Eric Von Sroheim's THE WEDDING MARCH, and almost a hundred other legendary films of Hollywood's golden age of silent films and sound films from the early 1920's through the 1950's. Wray was also a talented playwright and author and was great friends with McKay in the last decade of her life, traveling to film festivals with him from New York to Los Angels and from London to Paris to Venice. The film includes their adventures on the road as well as Wray's first person stories of romances with legendary playwright Clifford Odetts and millionaire Howards Hughes as well as her marriages to Hollywood writers John Monk Saunders and Robert Riskin - a...
The Joe Franklin Show guest Fay Wray. Also Charlotte Chandler and Paul Mandell.
Vina Fay Wray was a Canadian-born American actress most noted for playing the female lead in 'King Kong'. Through an acting career that spanned 57 years, Wray attained international renown as an actress in horror movie roles.
10 minutes from the very early rough cut of the 2015 film FAY WRAY, chronicling filmmaker Rick McKay's decade-long friendship and adventures with actress/author/screen icon Fay Wray while on the road in numerous countries. The film cuts between conversations in Fay's home, in the car while Rick is driving with Fay in different towns, long lost home movies and archival footage from Fay's work in Hollywood. The film also includes appearances by Peter Jackson, Naomi Watts, Gore Vidal, Leonard Maltin, Hume Cronyn, William Wegman, Stan Winston as well as her family, Victoria Riskin, Susan Riskin and Bob Riskin. The film is still in production and is tentatively slated to open in theatres in Fall 2015, followed by TV/DVD/BluRay/Streaming by year's end. Although currently only a placeholder, chec...
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
Billy Crystal and Fay Wray introduce presenters Matt Damon and Ben Affleck at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998.
best scene
The Joe Franklin Show guest Fay Wray. Also Charlotte Chandler and Paul Mandell.
A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole.
Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas star in this Phil Rosen directed thriller based on a story by Dashiell Hammet. The story looks at the dark side of corruption in a small town.
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The Joe Franklin Show guest Fay Wray. Also Charlotte Chandler and Paul Mandell.
A French explorer enlists the help of the US Navy in an expedition to the South Pole.
Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy and Melvyn Douglas star in this Phil Rosen directed thriller based on a story by Dashiell Hammet. The story looks at the dark side of corruption in a small town.
The Most Dangerous Game (1932). Scream Queen Fay Wray stars in this classic thriller about a couple who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with a psycho big game hunter who decides that they will be his next prey. Watch horror movies at http://www.fullhorror.com
American horror movie starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. Majestic Pictures cashed in on the success of Lionel Atwill and Fay Wray, who had been a sensation in the Technicolor thriller Doctor X and had already completed Mystery of the Wax Museum, which was also being heavily promoted at the time. Majestic was able to get this film into theaters over a month before th...
Welcome back to the Schlocky Horror Picture Show, and me, Nigel Honeybone. Don't worry, I'm not going to carry on with the clairvoyance jokes, but of course you knew I was going to say that...I'm sorry, I just can't seem to stop... Anyway, what drew audiences to The Evil Mind, a Gainsborough Picture, was it's stars. So, who is really the greatest Scream Queen of all time? Is it Barbara Steele or Ingrid Pitt, who starred in many classic horror movies of the sixties? Or could it be the lovely Elsa Lancaster who portrayed the ultimate female fantastic creation in Bride of Frankenstein, or screamers like Carolyn Munroe, Leanna Quigley, or Sybil Danning? Who can claim so many horror projects in their busiest years? Well, all these women are worthy names to toss around, but for many the individ...
The Vampire Bat is a 1933 American Pre-Code horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and Dwight Frye. When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop Watch The Vampire Bat | Hollywood Full Length 1933 Classic Movie. Subscribe Us For More Hollywood Movies, Videos, Traliors & More https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_kZkohCJURAQLwzzOUtBhA?sub_confirmation=1
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
From the makers of "King Kong" comes another island jungle thriller. In this film a bored big game hunter takes up hunting humans for sport. He lures shipwrecked people to his isolated island home in order to hunt them down.
Kings of Horror presents: The Vampire Bat When the villagers of Klineschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl remains skeptical, scientist Dr. von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop. NOTICE: All of the films uploaded to Kings of Horror are legally licensed, and we have the exclusive YouTube rights for specific territories. Any copyright inquiries should be sent to hello@kingsofhorror.com.
So we started in the cornfield
And I know we did not slack
We got everything in order
But we forgot to bring the bucket back
The foreman he went crazy
And ran around the field
Said we must be lazy
Had to be seen to be believed
Seen to be believed.
But it was a long way
From this highroad
It was a far away from here.
The farmer had a daughter
And she worked at the wishing well
Put one leg in the water
'til she found the mission bell
The old man went crazy
And ran to get his gun
We had a bad time explaining
We were just having drunken fun
Just having drunken fun.
But it was a long way
From this high road, Oh!
It was a long way from here
So we walked along this road
Just tellin' stories as we go
We just walk along.
Well the farmer had a daughter
And she did not speak a word
We used to kiss her in the orchard
Till one morning we were overheard
The old man he went crazy
Running around the field
Said we must be crazy
Had to be seen to be believed