Fay Wray & King Kong (1933): The Making of the Original Scream Queen — RKO, Damsels in Distress, and Hollywood's Impossible Spectacle

Podcast: When They Were Making It · Patrick Rankin

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

The first in our October Halloween series: four weeks of classic Hollywood's darker, stranger, and more monstrous stories. Fay Wray was already one of Hollywood's busiest young leading ladies when RKO cast her in King Kong. She had risen from Hal Roach shorts and the WAMPAS Baby Stars to Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March, then made a name in the fast, precarious world of early-1930s pictures. This episode follows Wray from her poverty-stricken childhood in Canada and early years in Hollywood through the silent era, Paramount, multiple leading lady...