![]() ![]() ‘I jumped at it because I could see that it had a marvellous charm about it. ‘The part was going to go to Jean Harlow, but she’d had contractual obligations elsewhere and someone suggested me,’ she told me, self-deprecatingly. A part in a classic can weigh heavily on an actor – it’s all the fans ever want to talk about for decades and it inevitably results in typecasting – but Wray knew the moment she saw the script that this was the film that was going to make her name. ![]() There was a picture of her on the cover being held in King Kong’s left paw. Wray was a feisty 82 when I caught up with her as she was promoting her memoirs, which she’d amusingly entitled On the Other Hand.
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