25 Mind-Blowing Facts About King Kong

20. Tall, Dark And Gruesome

King Kong Fay Wray The 1930s scream queen, Fay Wray, had recently completed The Most Dangerous Game (1932), in which human beings were pursued by a sadistic aristocratic hunter, when Merian Cooper cast her as Ann Darrow in King Kong. "The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable."
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