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...either show were faced by an additional hazard-the necessity of ungluing their small fry from the channel that featured the 1933 movie King Kong on station WOR-TV's Million Dollar Movie. Some distraught parents reported that their entranced children had watched the single-minded pursuit of Fay Wray by the colossal gorilla every single night of the five it was shown. Said a happy WOR executive: "This has been the biggest thing since Davy Crockett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...right hand do the talking-and for a man who seems to have scarcely enough muscle to move his own face, he packs quite a punch. The effect of it, in fact, is almost enough to make a moviegoer believe that this picture has a script. Anyway, it has Fay Wray, whom many customers will remember as the girl carried off by King Kong in the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1956 | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

Queen Bee (Columbia) creaks along like a slow train through Arkansas. The huffing-puffing locomotive is Joan Crawford, a siren from Chicago, and what she does to the proud sons and daughters of the Old South is a caution. Pathetic Fay Wray loses her mind when she loses her man to Joan. The luckless man (Barry Sullivan) retires to his room in the mansion house to nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...greatest proportion of Missouri Negroes live, most schools have a majority of white pupils. But not all. One that does not is the Eugene Field School, which, up until this fall, had only Negro students. Now, along with 860 colored children it has 40 white children. Its principal, Mr. Fay Everitt, and all its teachers are still Negroes...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: Desegregation: A Case Study | 10/19/1955 | See Source »

Died. Robert Riskin, 58, top screenwriter, who teamed with Director Frank Capra (1931-38) to turn out Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, winner of an Academy Award in 1934 for It Happened One Night, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Fay Wray; after being partially paralyzed from a stroke since 1950; in Woodland Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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