King Kong’s love interest, Fay Wray, 96
Posted: Monday, August 9th, 2004 4:36 pm
Fay Wray, the actress best known for her role as the object of a giant ape’s desire in the 1933 film “King Kong,” died yesterday. She was 96.
Wray died in her Fifth Avenue apartment in New York, the New York Times reported, citing friend Rick McKay.
As blonde-haired beauty Ann Darrow in “King Kong,” Wray earned the nickname “The Queen of Scream” for the yelp she uttered as she was plucked out of an Empire State Building window by the giant ape and carried to the top of the 102-story skyscraper. …
Fay made more than 100 films in her career, yet she was forever identified with “Kong.” …
Wray often repeated the story of how one of the movie’s producers told her that he had an idea for a film, and “the only thing he’d tell me was that it was going to have ‘the tallest and darkest leading man in Hollywood.’”
“Well, naturally I thought of Clark Gable, hopefully, and when the script came I was absolutely appalled! I thought it was a practical joke,” she said. …
Fay Wray was born Vina Fay Wray near Cardston, Alberta, on Sept. 15, 1907. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother moved Wray and her five siblings to Los Angeles. … Read full obituary
