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Personal life and family. Riskin married actress Fay Wray in 1942. [9] They had three children: Susan (born 1936), Robert (born 1943), and Victoria (born 1945). (Susan was the child of Wray's first marriage and was adopted by Riskin in 1942.) They remained married until his death on September 20, 1955. [1]
Mar 8, 2019 · Victoria Riskin has written a book about her mother, Fay Wray of King Kong fame, and father, Robert Riskin, who won the Oscar for writing the screenplay to “It Happened One Night.”
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May 15, 2019 · In her book, Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir, Riskin traces her immediate family’s roots to the big bang moment when sparks first flew between her accomplished parents, then having hit the apex of their creative lives.
Mar 1, 2019 · Now for Victoria Riskin’s memoir of her parents, Wray and screenwriter Robert Riskin, who didn’t find each other until he was in his 40s and she, her mid-30s. Wray had been married to ...
Feb 22, 2019 · Victoria Riskin’s memoir of her parents chronicles the relatively few years they had together.
Feb 26, 2019 · A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a (dual) Hollywood biography--the woman who stole the heart of King Kong and the man, Robert Riskin, one of the greatest screenwriters of all time, an Academy Award winner, producer, and longtime collaborator with Frank Capra on eight pictures.
Vicki Riskin grew up surrounded by Hollywood royalty. Her mother, Fay Wray, famously co-starred with King Kong, and her father, Robert Riskin, was an Academy awardwinning screenwriter for such classics as “It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” and “Meet John Doe.”
