KONG again

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Craig objects:
"> Cooper's line is straight from KING KONG itself,
 
Sorry, Don, I must disagree with you here.
 
I've only ever seen the original classic Kong once, some 16 years
ago, long before I read GR, but surely this can't be the case... Cooper
was a real, live Hollywood producer, was he not? As such he surely does
not appear in the film. And the only conversation with Anne
Darrow a.k.a Fay Wray where anyone would talk about her leading man
would be on the dockside before they set sail to the island. From
what I recall, KK lacked the sense of irony to describe her leading
man as the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood."


I spoke (or typed) in haste.  I don't have the script at hand, but I believe
Robert Armstrong (not, of course, Cooper) suggests something about the role
to her when he plucks her off the breadline, but the actual quote supposedly
*does* come from Cooper himself.  This is from THE MAKING OF KING KONG by
Orville Goldner and George Turner:

"Cooper had approached Fay Wray with the news that he had chosen her to be the
leading lady in a film about "a discovery of gigantic proportions" and that 
she would play opposite "the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood."


Hope that helps!

Don Larsson, Manakto State U (MN)