Fay Wray

Whilewe were making King Kong in 1932, there was no Guild and the hours could behorrendous. There was one occasion when I worked 22 hours straight through. Itwas supposed to be test footage for the money-people back east to look at, butsubsequently, that material went into the film. I don't know whether I even gotpaid. This is how things were. There's an evening I remember when I went to ameeting at the Writers Club of Hollywood. The prelude to that event was the1933 earthquake in Long Beach. That really shook us all up a great deal! I recall that there were chandelierson the ceilings, and they moved a lot during that evening. The earth moving isfixed in my memory in connection with the start of the Guild. [Note: this meeting of actors was held March 10, 1933 to protest the 50% salary cuts, nearly four months before the Guild wasfounded].