King Kong/Fun Facts
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
< King Kong
- Referenced by the The Rocky Horror Picture Show song "Science Fiction Double Feature": "Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong/They got caught in a celluloid jam."
- The film's success is credited with saving RKO Radio Pictures from bankruptcy.
- Actress Fay Wray died on August 8, 2004. Two nights later, the Empire State Building darkened its lights in her memory.
- Along with spoofing Frankenstein 1931 and Dracula, Sheena Easton's 1983 video "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" ends with Kong carrying Sheena away.
- David F. Friedman's favorite movie that wasn't one of his own.
- Added to the National Film Registry in 1991.
