{"product_id":"book-crmp","title":"Fay Wray and Robert Riskin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize (Biography)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed writer and producer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFay Wray was most famous as the woman—the blonde in a diaphanous gown—who captured the heart of the mighty King Kong, the twenty-five-foot, sixty-ton gorilla, as he placed her, nestled in his eight-foot hand, on the ledge of the 102-story Empire State Building, putting Wray at the height of New York’s skyline and cinematic immortality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWray starred in more than 120 pictures opposite Hollywood's biggest stars—Spencer Tracy, Gary Cooper (\u003ci\u003eThe Legion of the Condemned, The First Kiss, The Texan, One Sunday Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e), Clark Gable, William Powell, and Charles Boyer; from cowboy stars Hoot Gibson and Art Accord to Ronald Colman (\u003ci\u003eThe Unholy Garden\u003c\/i\u003e), Claude Rains, Ralph Richardson, and Melvyn Douglas. She was directed by the masters of the age, from Fred Niblo, Erich von Stroheim (\u003ci\u003eThe Wedding March\u003c\/i\u003e), and Mauritz Stiller (\u003ci\u003eThe Street of Sin\u003c\/i\u003e) to Leo McCarey, William Wyler, Gregory La Cava, “Wild Bill” William Wellman, Merian C. Cooper (\u003ci\u003eThe Four Feathers, King Kong\u003c\/i\u003e), Josef von Sternberg (\u003ci\u003eThunderbolt\u003c\/i\u003e), Dorothy Arzner (\u003ci\u003eBehind the Make-Up\u003c\/i\u003e), Frank Capra (\u003ci\u003eDirigible\u003c\/i\u003e), Michael Curtiz (\u003ci\u003eDoctor X\u003c\/i\u003e), Raoul Walsh (\u003ci\u003eThe Bowery\u003c\/i\u003e), and Vincente Minnelli.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book’s—and Wray’s—counterpart: Robert Riskin, considered one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. Academy Award–winning writer (nominated for five), producer, ten-year-long collaborator with Frank Capra on such pictures as \u003ci\u003eAmerican Madness, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Meet John Doe,\u003c\/i\u003e hailed by many, among them F. Scott Fitzgerald, as “among the best screenwriters in the business.” Riskin wrote women characters who were smart, ornery, sexy, always resilient, as he perfected what took full shape in \u003ci\u003eIt Happened One Night,\u003c\/i\u003e the Riskin character, male or female—breezy, self-made, streetwise, optimistic, with a sense of humor that is subtle and sure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFay Wray and Robert Riskin lived large lives, finding each other after establishing their artistic selves and after each had had many romantic attachments—Wray, an eleven-year-long difficult marriage and a fraught affair with Clifford Odets, and Riskin, a series of romances with, among others, Carole Lombard, Glenda Farrell, and Loretta Young.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere are Wray’s and Riskin’s lives, their work, their fairy-tale marriage that ended so tragically. Here are their dual, quintessential American lives, ultimately and blissfully intertwined.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49330550407472,"sku":"BDcrmp","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/219981-crmp-Square.jpg?v=1733783533","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-crmp","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}