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Fay Wray’s career spanned 65 years from the silent era onward. She starred in more than 100 films opposite the leading men of her time. Robert Riskin was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, considered one of the greats of Hollywood’s Golden Era. You may recognize a few of your favorite films, listed here. Explore Victoria Riskin's memoir ...
Feb 26, 2019 · Victoria Riskin interweaves the biographies of her parents, Fay Wray and Robert Riskin, and places their lives against the unfolding histories of Hollywood and the nation. Riskin alternates between closeups and long shots, writing with the intimacy of a daughter but also with the reportorial detachment of a historian who has done her homework.
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Mar 8, 2019 · Victoria Riskin has written a book about her mother, Fay Wray of King Kong fame, and father, Robert Riskin, who won the Oscar for writing the screenplay to “It Happened One Night.” (Katie ...
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Riskin was born in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, the daughter of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin, whose films include It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), and Lost Horizon (1937), and actress Fay Wray, famous for her role as Ann Darrow in King Kong (1933). Riskin is the author of a memoir and ...
Feb 22, 2019 · Fay Wray and Robert Riskin’s daughter revisits a Hollywood love story. Review by Dennis Drabelle. February 22, 2019 at 8:40 a.m. EST. Let’s start with a little reporting. In April of 1998 ...
Mar 3, 2020 · The Daughter of Fay Wray Explains the Grip of ‘King Kong’ on Cinema We talk with Victoria Riskin about her mother’s experience on ‘King Kong’ and how the film permeated their lives and ours.
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About Fay Wray and Robert Riskin. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography). A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed writer and producer.
