KONG again

[Craig Clark]

Don Larsson clarifies:
> 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!

That's exactly the kind of positive identification of sources that I 
was looking for when I started this thread - thanks, Don!

Now we've just got to track down that Nixonian "What?"...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"