Many of us that watched RKO's KING KONG (1933) as Monster Kids -- and maybe even a few of us as adults -- assumed that 26-year old Fay Wray, the dame with the scream that could shatter glass, arrived fully formed and ready to play Ann Darrow. Not so! Miss Wray had already had a bit of a modeling career and a bunch of movies under her belt before she met up with the Great Ape. As a matter of fact, the four movies she appeared in before KONG were all horror/thrillers (DOCTOR X, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, THE VAMPIRE BAT, and MYSTERY IN THE WAX MUSEUM).
This article from the November 1929 of SCREENLAND is subtitled "A Sweet Little Girl Grows Up" and tells the story of Miss Wray from a "shy, sweet and serious" girl to "an emancipated ingenue, gay and gallant, the season's sensation in talking pictures." They had no idea. . .
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