Occupation: Actress Birth: September 15, 1907 Death: August 8, 2004
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My tho….
It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting alon….
Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lo….
Only in your imagination can you revise..
The producers who wanted me to do it liked me and trusted me, and more than one scene was only one take, because I'd plan ahead what I thought would ….
Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?.
My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see….
So I was asked to do horror film after horror film, a series of about five, after that, and some of those were a little too gruesome. I wasn't too co….
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and ….
Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right..
I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any res….
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems h….
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize hi….
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing..
There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above..
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood..
That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness.….
When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?.
When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'….
Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading m….
It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play ….