20. Tall, Dark And Gruesome
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."