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August 11th, 2004, 06:44 AM
Jeff Christensen / Reuters file
Legendary actress Fay Wray looks out the 102-story observation deck of the Empire State Building in May 2004.
The Associated Press
'King Kong' damsel Fay Wray dies at 96
Despite long film career, actress best known for ape movie
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not a bad sort in her prime
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this is the movie i saw whn i was a kid (midnight matinee) which got my interested in skyscrapers! ESB blew me away!!
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Updated: 5:09 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2004NEW YORK - Fay Wray, who won everlasting fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 film classic “King Kong,” has died, a close friend said Monday. She was 96.
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Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.
“She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep,” said McKay, director of the documentary “Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.”
“She just kind of gave out.”
During a career that started in 1923, Wray appeared with such stars as Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy, but she was destined to be linked with the rampaging Kong in movie fans’ minds.
“I used to resent ‘King Kong,”’ she remarked in a 1963 interview. “But now I don’t fight it anymore. I realize that it is a classic, and I am pleased to be associated with it. Why, only recently an entire issue of a French magazine was devoted to discussing the picture from its artistic, moral and even religious aspects.”
She wrote in her 1988 autobiography, “On the Other Hand”: “Each time I arrive in New York and see the skyline and the exquisite beauty of the Empire State Building, my heart beats a little faster. I like that feeling. I really like it!”
A notable career
“King Kong” obscured the other notable films Wray made during the ’30s. They included adventures “The Four Feathers” (with Richard Arlen and William Powell) and “Viva Villa” (Wallace Beery), Westerns “The Texan” (Cooper) and “The Conquering Horde” (Arlen), romances “One Sunday Afternoon” (Cooper) and “The Unholy Garden” (Colman) as well as horror films “Dr. X” and “The Mystery of the Wax Museum.”
Legendary actress Fay Wray looks out the 102-story observation deck of the Empire State Building in May 2004.
The Associated Press
'King Kong' damsel Fay Wray dies at 96
Despite long film career, actress best known for ape movie
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040809/040809_Wrayobit_HMed_12p.hmedium.jpg
not a bad sort in her prime
http://www.mycottage.com/spfxmag/images/6wray.jpg
http://www.sea.fi/foto/king_kong.jpg
this is the movie i saw whn i was a kid (midnight matinee) which got my interested in skyscrapers! ESB blew me away!!
http://bibliotecnica.upc.es/BIB210/CiA%20caratules/king%20kong.jpg
Updated: 5:09 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2004NEW YORK - Fay Wray, who won everlasting fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 film classic “King Kong,” has died, a close friend said Monday. She was 96.
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Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.
“She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep,” said McKay, director of the documentary “Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There.”
“She just kind of gave out.”
During a career that started in 1923, Wray appeared with such stars as Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy, but she was destined to be linked with the rampaging Kong in movie fans’ minds.
“I used to resent ‘King Kong,”’ she remarked in a 1963 interview. “But now I don’t fight it anymore. I realize that it is a classic, and I am pleased to be associated with it. Why, only recently an entire issue of a French magazine was devoted to discussing the picture from its artistic, moral and even religious aspects.”
She wrote in her 1988 autobiography, “On the Other Hand”: “Each time I arrive in New York and see the skyline and the exquisite beauty of the Empire State Building, my heart beats a little faster. I like that feeling. I really like it!”
A notable career
“King Kong” obscured the other notable films Wray made during the ’30s. They included adventures “The Four Feathers” (with Richard Arlen and William Powell) and “Viva Villa” (Wallace Beery), Westerns “The Texan” (Cooper) and “The Conquering Horde” (Arlen), romances “One Sunday Afternoon” (Cooper) and “The Unholy Garden” (Colman) as well as horror films “Dr. X” and “The Mystery of the Wax Museum.”