#Victoria Riskin

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Fay Wray and Robert Riskin were married on August 23, 1942. I highly recommend their daughter’s (Victoria Riskin) book about their lives and careers. The couple remained together until his death in 1955.

#fay wray #robert riskin

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Mystery of the Wax Museum: Once Lost, Now Found By Susan King

Baby boomer cinephiles fell in love with movies by watching them on television (remember Million Dollar Movie?) despite often bad, blurry prints that appeared edited by a chainsaw in order to fit into the time slot. But thanks to film preservation and restoration efforts, when these vintage films air on TCM or are released on Blu-ray and DVD, the result is revelatory. Films considered fun, albeit, minor works at the time of their release are often now viewed as classics.

Such is the case with MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (’33), the delicious Michael Curtiz horror film starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh. The Warner Bros. production was one of the last photographed in the atmospheric and surreal two-strip Technicolor format. (BECKY SHARP, the first shot in the more realistic three-strip Technicolor, was released two years later).

Shot by the legendary Technicolor cinematographer Ray Rennahan, the pre-Code MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM scared audiences out of their seats, or at least reviewers, with the New York Times critic proclaiming it “too ghastly for comfort” and even “unhealthy.” Long considered lost, a nitrate print was found in 1970 in Jack Warner’s personal vault on the Warner Bros. lot. And in 2019, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation used that print, as well as another nitrate print discovered this century by a private collection, to restore the film to its original, vibrant glory and gore.

In 1933, Wray was the object of the affection for both the tragic and mighty KING KONG (’33) and an insane, disfigured wax sculptor (Atwill) murdering people for his wax museum in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM. The sculptor becomes so obsessed with her that he wants to add her to his collection. (WAX MUSEUM was remade in 1953 in 3-D as HOUSE OF WAX with Vincent Price).

Wray’s daughter, writer Victoria Riskin, who wrote the acclaimed biography of her mother and her Oscar-winning father screenwriter Robert Riskin (IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 1934), Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir, was gob smacked by the restoration. “The restoration looked wonderful,” she said in a recent interview. ‘‘Visually it’s very powerful and the colors that were introduced were exceptionally vivid. I’m so grateful to the restorers for all that hard work; it elevates the film in my mind.”

At that time, her mother was 26 and was being loaned out to various studios by her home base at Paramount. Unlike a lot of performers who balked at films they were cast in by their studios, Wray never fought the projects she was told to do. Wray knew poverty. She was born to a poor Mormon family in Salt Lake City in 1907 and was all of 14 when she came to Hollywood to seek her fame and fortune in Hollywood. And in 1933, said Riskin, Wray was still the breadwinner for her family including “her mother, her brothers, her husband and his family.”

She was happy to have the work that she got during the middle of the Depression. She was reliable and hard working. At the same time, director Michael Curtiz was not easy. MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM reunited Wray, Atwill and Curtiz, who had worked together in the two-strip Technicolor horror film DOCTOR X (’32). And Wray and Atwill also starred in 1933 in the horror film VAMPIRE BAT. “He was an unyielding character with an obsessive work ethic,” said Riskin of Curtiz. “From [Wray’s] point of view, as a lovely young woman, he was almost like a machine-detached, impersonal and not much fun. She was used to the kind of warmth and playfulness that can happen around the set. Certainly, that happened with [producer] Merian C. Cooper on KING KONG. But there was none of that with Michael Curtiz.”

Just as with KING KONG, Wray’s role in MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM was physically demanding. There’s one incredible scene in which Atwill shows how much his wax figure of Marie Antoinette resembles her. It was actually Wray wearing elaborate clothing and a heavy wig, who played the wax figure because the Technicolor cameras were so hot, the real wax figures in the movie began to melt. Not only doesn’t she move a muscle, Wray didn’t even blink.

One of the best sequences features a terrified Wray hitting the face of Atwill to reveal he’s wearing a mask over his horribly disfigured face. Wray had no idea what the disfigured make-up would look like because they wanted her scream to be spontaneous when she saw Atwill’s face. But instead of screaming, she gasped in horror. “Her reaction was actually more normal,” she said. But not to Curtiz. He wanted that scream. “So, they had another mask – just one more,” said Riskin. “He said you have to really hit him and scream, so she did it.”

Though Wray had problems with Curtiz, in the end, said Riskin, she appreciated him as a filmmaker. “She admired the results and that part was good. She brings a likeability to that part.” Ironically, Farrell, who plays Wray’s roomie—a fast-talking newspaper reporter looking for a rich husband—was seriously dating Robert Riskin at the time of the production. Wray and Riskin didn’t meet until several years later.

“That’s the fun part of the movie because my parents hadn’t yet met,” noted Riskin. “My dad’s first important romance in Hollywood was with Glenda Farrell. I could see why he liked her. She was smart and warm and generous. And in the movie, my mother and Glenda, the two most important women in my father’s life, are playing roommate. Isn’t it adorable?”

#Mystery of the Wax Museum #horror #film history #film preservation #film legacy #lost film #pre-Code #TCM #Turner Classic Movies #Technicolor #two-strip technicolor #Fay Wray #Victoria Riskin #Michael Curtiz #Susan King

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New from Pantheon and screenwriter (and daughter) Victoria Riskin, Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir.

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[shawnvanbriesen]

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed one of the first "scream queens". Wray married three times – to writers John Monk Saunders and Robert Riskin and the neurosurgeon Sanford Rothenberg (January 28, 1919 – January 4, 1991). She had three children: Susan Saunders, Victoria Riskin, and Robert Riskin, Jr. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1933. #faywray #kingkong (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLt4SxJA9bT/?igshid=1t3szulu3ziq0

#faywray #kingkong

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Part two I talk to Victoria Riskin about her book about her parents Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir...Great stuff

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Capitolfest 15: A Snapshot

Capitolfest 15: A Snapshot

My husband and I attend a silent/early talky film festival every summer. Each year, Capitolfest focuses on one artist who worked in the silent era and transitioned to early talkies. This year’s featured artist was Fay Wray, primarily known for her role in King Kong. Her daughter, Victoria Riskin, is writing a book about her parents, tentatively titled Roses in December. She was Googling her…

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FOX NEWS: ‘King Kong’ star Fay Wray endured personal tragedies, remained devoted to family despite fame, daughter says

FOX NEWS: ‘King Kong’ star Fay Wray endured personal tragedies, remained devoted to family despite fame, daughter says

‘King Kong’ star Fay Wray endured personal tragedies, remained devoted to family despite fame, daughter says

Whenever Victoria Riskin looks up at the Empire State Building, she can’t help, but think about her mother.

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Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir

I review Victoria Riskin's new book about her parents' love story. #TCMParty @tcm

  He was a successful Hollywood screenwriter whose words shaped several of Frank Capra’s classic features. She was the actress whose beauty (and powerful set of lungs) captured the heart of a giant ape atop the Empire State building. Separately, they were representative of all that was glamorous and effective in the golden age of Hollywood. Together they were a loving couple whose marriage…

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IT WASN'T THE AIRPLANES: My Mother’s Romance With King Kong. For decades after ‘King Kong’ debuted, the actress Fay Wray would be inextricably linked with the great ape. According to her daughter, Wray didn’t mind one bit.

IT WASN’T THE AIRPLANES: My Mother’s Romance With King Kong. For decades after ‘King Kong’ debuted, the actress Fay Wray would be inextricably linked with the great ape. According to her daughter, Wray didn’t mind one bit.

IT WASN’T THE AIRPLANES My Mother’s Romance With King Kong

For decades after ‘King Kong’ debuted, the actress Fay Wray would be inextricably linked with the great ape. According to her daughter, Wray didn’t mind one bit.

Victoria Riskin

04.13.19 10:26 PM ET Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty

This month marks the 86th anniversary of the 1933 world premiere of 

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[citizenscreen]

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin were married on August 23, 1942.

Their daughter Victoria wrote a lovely book about their lives together and their careers, “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir.” Highly recommended!

#fay wray #robert riskin

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Ngoài bóng đá, Brazil còn sở hữu những mỹ nhân ‘huyền thoại’ này -

 Không chỉ sản sinh ra những huyền thoại bóng đá thế giới như Pele, Ronaldo “béo”, Garrincha, Roberto Carlos… Brazil còn là nơi quy tụ những mỹ nhân nóng bỏng hàng đầu thế giới.

9. Sophie Charlotte: Sophie Charlotte không chỉ là một diễn viên tuyệt vời, mà còn nổi tiếng ở vai trò vũ công ballet. Cô sinh ra ở Hamburg, Đức, có cha gốc Brazil và mẹ là người Đức. Nữ diễn viên 29 tuổi kết hôn với đồng nghiệp Daniel de Oliveira vào năm 2015.

8. Cléo Pires: Dù sở hữu chiều cao khiêm tốn 1m60, điều đó không hề ảnh hưởng đến vẻ nóng bỏng, quyến rũ của Cléo Pires. Cô từng được mời làm gương mặt trang bìa cho tạp chí danh tiếng Playboy vào năm 2010. Không chỉ vậy, người đẹp 35 tuổi còn thành công với nghiệp diễn, từng được trao giải nữ diễn viên xuất sắc vào năm 2003.

7. Fernanda Tavares: Fernanda Tavares sinh ngày 22/9/1980 tại Rio Grande Do Norte, Brazil. Gương mặt đẹp, cùng chiều cao lý tưởng 1m80 và số đo 89-61-91, giúp Fernanda thành danh sớm trong ngành công nghiệp thời trang. Cô từng hợp tác với nhiều thương hiệu lớn như Atelier Versace, Chloe, Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Mano, Nine West… Chân dài Brazil cũng từng làm người mẫu trong how diễn của Victoria”s Secret năm 2000. Không chỉ là một người mẫu thành công, Fernanda còn là VJ duyên dáng của chương trình MTV của Brazil – Missão MTV. Về đời tư, cô có cuộc hôn nhân đẹp như mơ với diễn viên cùng quê Murilo Rosa. Họ kết hôn năm 2007 và đến giờ vẫn rất mặn nồng.

6. Fernanda Machado: Không có quá nhiều “chiến tích” ở mảng điện ảnh, nữ diễn viên Fernanda Machado lại phổ biến trên màn ảnh nhỏ Brazil. Fernanda ra mắt công chúng lần đầu tiên vào năm 2004. Ba năm sau đó, cô giành được giải thưởng nữ diễn viên phụ xuất sắc nhất của TV Globo. Cô không chỉ thu hút khán giả bằng vẻ đẹp quyến rũ, mà còn khả năng diễn xuất đa dạng. Người đẹp sinh năm 1980 kết hôn với doanh nhân Robert Riskin vào năm 2014.

5. Alessandra Ambrosio: Nhắc đến những mỹ nhân gốc Brazil, không thể bỏ qua cái tên Alessandra Ambrosio. Người đẹp sinh năm 1981 được biết nhiều nhất với vai trò người mẫu của hãng nội y Victoria”s Secret, với 17 năm gắn bó trước khi chính thức nói lời tạm biệt. Dù xuất hiện trong một số bộ phim, Alessandra vẫn thành công hơn ở vai trò siêu mẫu. Số tiền cô kiếm được nhiều hơn các sao nam Brazil, đưa cô vào hàng ngũ những người nổi tiếng giàu nhất xứ sở samba.

4. Gisele Bundchen: Sở hữu chiều cao 1m80, Gisele Bundchen được coi là siêu mẫu có thu nhập cao nhất thế giới. Gisele Bundchen là người khởi xướng cho phong trào người đẹp Brazil làm khuynh đảo các sàn diễn thế giới. Trong đó với sự xuất hiện ở show diễn Victoria”s Secret, cô từng được tạp chí Vogue đặt cho danh xưng “bom sex Brazil” . Tạp chí Time ghi cô vào danh sách 100 biểu tượng thời trang mọi thời đại. Giàu có bậc nhất thế giới, siêu mẫu người Brazil nổi tiếng hào phóng, khi ủng hộ không ít tiền vào các hoạt động từ thiện và bảo vệ môi trường. Cô hiện đang hạnh phúc bên cầu thủ bóng bầu dục Tom Brady và hai con.

3. Juliana Paes: Juliana Paes là nữ diễn viên nổi tiếng hàng đầu Brazil, cũng như Hollywood. Cô từng nhận được 3 giải thưởng quốc gia cho Nữ diễn viên xuất sắc nhất, và vô số giải thưởng khác. Tạp chí People từng bầu chọn cô vào danh sách những phụ nữ quyến rũ nhất thế giới. Vẻ ngoài nóng bỏng giúp cô từng được mời làm gương mặt trang bìa cho Playboy năm 2004.

2. Alice Braga: Alice hút hồn người đối diện với đôi mắt và làn da đẹp. Cô là một trong những nữ diễn viên nóng bỏng nhất Brazil, thành công ở cả trong nước lẫn Hollywood. “I Am Legend” và “Predators” là hai trong số những bộ phim đình đám của nữ diễn viên 33 tuổi.

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1. Debora Nascimento: Đứng đầu danh sách là nữ diễn viên Debora Nascimento. Dù đã 33 tuổi, Debora có ngoại hình của một cô gái tuổi đôi mươi, với hình thể nóng bỏng, chiều cao 1,78m, và gương mặt xinh đẹp. Cô tạo được chỗ đứng trong làng giải trí Hollywood, xuất hiện trong nhiều tác phẩm đình đám như “Người khổng lồ xanh phi thường” hay “Rio, I love you”… Cô đang có cuộc hôn nhân hạnh phúc với người chồng thứ 2 – nam diễn viên đồng hương điển trai José Loreto. Cặp đôi vừa chào đón thành viên mới, là một bé gái, vào tháng 4/2018 vừa qua.

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#vietnamesebeauty

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~~> Exposición Colectiva SUDESTADA 100<~~

Este mismo viernes, dentro del Festival, se inaugura en la Sala 6 la exposición Sudestada 100. Una extensa e impresionante exposición de 100 artistas, con selección para nada exhaustiva, que intenta dar un gran paneo por la enorme diversidad y calidad de la producción local.

Con cuidada curaduría de Angela Corti.

Participan: Alina Calzadilla, Ana Paula Méndez, Ana Sanfelippo, Andrés Agosin (Monk), Ariel López V., Camila Torre Notari, Catriel Martínez, Cecilia Afonso Esteves, Christian Montenegro, Clara Lagos, Claudia Legnazzi, Cristian Turdera, Cynthia Alonso, Damián Conci, Daniel Roldán, Daniela Achoyan, Daniela Arias, Daniela Kantor, Daniela Ruggeri, David Paleo Nunes, Decur, Delius, Diego Parés, Don Ponzoña, Elda Broglio, Ernan Cirianni, Eugenia Mello, Federico Porfiri, Florencia Capella, Florencia Delboy, Frank Vega, Rëgina, Iván Riskin, Isol, Jazmín Varela, Jo Murúa, Joaquín Camp, Johanna Wilhelm, Jorge Quien, José Villamayor, Josie Bartolomé, Juan Manuel Puerto, Juan Pez, Juan Vegetal, Juani Navarro, Katana, Krysthopher Woods, Langer, Laura Varsky, Lautaro Fiszman, Lucía Brutta, Lucila Biscione, Lucila Domínguez, Luis Gory, María Elina Méndez, María Luque, María Victoria Rodríguez, Mariana Ruiz Johnson, Mariano Grassi, Marina Zanollo, Marquitos Farina, Martín Vitaliti, Martín Laksman, Martín Orza, Matías Malizia, Matías San Juan, Max Cachimba, Miren Asiain Lora, Muriel Bellini, Natalia Colombo, Natalia Lombardo, Nicolás Mealla, No Tan Parecidos, Otto Zaiser, Pablo Elías, Pablo Gamba, Pablo Lobato, Pablo Picyk, Pablo Vigo, Pablo Zweig, Patricio Oliver, Patricia Tewel, Pedro Mancini, Podetti, Polaco Scalerandi, Roberto Cubillas, Sabina Álvarez Schürmann, Santiago Fredes, Sémola Souto,Silfrom Pencilory, Sole Otero, Un Faulduo, Vale Boquete, Valeria Cis y Vero Scherini.

La exposición inaugura este viernes a las 15hs en el marco del festival y se podrá visitar hasta el 27 de Marzo, en la sala 6 del Centro Cultural Recoleta.

Auspician: Pizzini y Cynar.

#sudestadadedibujoeilustracion #sudestada100 #festivalsudestada#centroculturalrecoleta #angelacorti #musarañaproductora

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#Fay Wray #Robert Riskin #Victoria Riskin #Hollywood #cinema #memoir #books #book review #Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir

[shawnvanbriesen]

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed one of the first "scream queens".  Wray married three times – to writers John Monk Saunders and Robert Riskin and the neurosurgeon Sanford Rothenberg (January 28, 1919 – January 4, 1991). She had three children: Susan Saunders, Victoria Riskin, and Robert Riskin, Jr. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1933. #oldhollywood #vintage #hollywood #actress #classichollywood #cinema #film #faywray #pinup #vintagehollywood #hauntedlosangeles #noir #precode #love #movies #beauty #makeup #art #kingkong #oldhollywoodglam  #retro  #beautiful #legend #haunted #instaartist #noir_shots #losangeles #heartbreakcity #shawnvanbriesen (at West Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuT3PbQBZ5k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dq3v3xd7m89z

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