Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir Audiobook (Free)

A Hollywood love tale, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most well-known statistics, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their child, an acclaimed article writer and producer.

Fay Wray was most well-known as the girl—the blonde within a diaphanous gown—who captured the heart of the mighty Ruler Kong, the twenty-five-foot, sixty-ton gorilla, as he placed her, nestled in his eight-foot hands, within the ledge from the 102-tale Empire State Building, about Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir positioning Wray at the height of New York’s skyline and cinematic immortality.

Wray starred in more than 120 pictures opposite Hollywood’s biggest superstars—Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper (The Legion from the Condemned, The Initial Kiss, The Texan, One Sunday Afternoon), Clark Gable, William Powell, and Charles Boyer; from cowboy stars Hoot Gibson and Artwork Accord to Ronald Colman (The Unholy Garden), Claude Rains, Ralph Richardson, and Melvyn Douglas. She was directed with the masters of this, from Fred Niblo, Erich von Stroheim (THE MARRIAGE March), and Mauritz Stiller (THE ROAD of Sin) to Leo McCarey, William Wyler, Gregory La Cava, “Wild Costs” William Wellman, Merian C. Cooper (The Four Feathers, Ruler Kong), Josef von Sternberg (Thunderbolt), Dorothy Arzner (Behind the Make-Up), Frank Capra (Dirigible), Michael Curtiz (Doctor X), Raoul Walsh (The Bowery), and Vincente Minnelli.

The book’s—and Wray’s—counterpart: Robert Riskin, considered one of the biggest screenwriters ever. Academy Award–winning article writer (nominated for five), manufacturer, ten-year-long collaborator with Frank Capra on such photos as American Madness, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Would go to City, Shed Horizon, and Match John Doe, hailed by many, among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, as “among the best screenwriters available.” Riskin wrote ladies characters who have been intelligent, ornery, sexy, always resilient, seeing that he perfected what took complete shape in IT JUST HAPPENED One Evening, the Riskin personality, male or feminine—breezy, self-made, streetwise, positive, with a feeling of humor that is simple and sure.

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin lived huge lives, finding each other after establishing their artistic selves and after every had had many romantic accessories—Wray, an eleven-year-long hard marriage and a fraught affair with Clifford Odets, and Riskin, a series of romances with, among others, Carole Lombard, Glenda Farrell, and Loretta Teen.

Listed below are Wray’s and Riskin’s lives, their function, their fairy-tale marriage that ended so tragically. Here are their dual, quintessential American lives, ultimately and blissfully intertwined.