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WELCOME TO SP/TLIGHT, 4-Tel's mini-
magazine which brings you all the
latest stories on what's what and
who's who on Channel 4...
On the following pages you can find
THE CLAIRVOYANT
Profiles of Claude Rains and the
lovely scream queen Fay Wray who 0
star in this Wednesday's film
matinee at 2.30pm.
Edited by Barbara Jefferson
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CLAUDE RAINS
It is surprising that the cinema
took so long to discover Claude
Rains.
The London-born actor with the
deep, resonant voice was approaching
middle age when he was given the
starring role in The Invisible Man.
After that, Rains was a star of
sorts, being neither tall nor
handsome enough to reach the heights
attained by contemporaries such as
Tyrone Power.
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CLAUDE RAINS
In 1939, Claude Rains received the
first of his four Supporting Actor
nominations for his performance as a
corrupt senator in Mr Smith Goes To
Washington.
Rains continued to be active in
pictures throughout the 1940s and
earned his second Oscar nominatign
for the suave but opportunistic
chief of police in Casablanca.
But working with the statuesque
Ingrid Bergman in Notorious caused
Hitchcock a few problems.
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CLAUDE RAINS
Francois Truffaut noted: "It's
rather touching, the small man in
love with a taller woman."
To which Hitchcock replied: "Yes,
Claude Rains and Ingrid Bergman made
a nice couple, but I had to stand
Rains on a box for the close shots."
Lack of height did not affect Rains'
ability to land the big rgles and
two years before his death in 1967
he played Herod in The Greatest
Story Ever Told.
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FAY WRAY
Fay Wray's career started long
before she became the scream queen
of the 30s and the apple of King
Kong's eye.
She used to be a raven-haired
petite ingenue in silent Westerns,
providing the love interest for a
host of cowboys.
By 1927, Ms Wray had had enough and
she defiantly stormed off to find
the big time, and scored the lead
in Eric von Strgheim's The Wedding
March.
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FAY WRAY
Her co-star for many movies was
Gary Cooper and in the early 30s
she co-starred with action hero Jack
Holt in Dirigible, The Woman I Stole
and Master of Men.
Inevitably, these films have been
overshadowed by the series of
classic horrors on which her fame
rests today.
In 1932, producer Merian C.Cooper
told Fay that she was going to have
'the tallest, darkest leading man in
Hollywood.' Anticipating Clark Gable
she got King Kong. 0
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FAY WRAY
There may have been better and more
beautiful actresses than Kong's
diminutive leading lady, Fay Wray.
But she provided an unforgettable
combination of sex appeal and
vulnerability as she wriggled
helplessly in his fist - and she
certainly had the lung power.
After King Kong, there was a slow
decline in her career, followed by
a divorce and remarriage. King Kong
made Fay Wray famous, but he also
destroyed her.
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