Beauty to Kong’s Beast Dies at 96 (New York Times

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Although she made more than a hundred films, she knew she would always bey known for one alone… and, in that one, for her scream more than anything else. Wray commented, which as an inveterate King Kong fan I think goes without saying, that the beast is poignant for his instinctive recognition of and yearning for the beauty and that this gives the film a transcendent or spiritual power, especially embodied in his death scene reach for her.

“Well, Denham, the airplanes got him.”

“Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.”