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	Fay Wray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wray's family lived in predominantly Mormon communities in Alberta, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah before settling in Los Angeles, California, where she got her first film work in Hal Roach comedy shorts and in low-budget westerns in the early 1920s.
		Wray gained media attention when she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, which landed her a contract at Paramount Pictures.
		Wray died at her apartment in Manhattan, New York at the age of 96 of natural causes on August 8, 2004, and was interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fay_Wray (760 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Fay Wray
		Vina Fay Wray, the fourth child in a family of six, was born at a ranch-house in Alberta, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies on September 15 1907.
		Fay's eldest sister died in the influenza epidemic of 1918; and, because Fay's own health was considered frail, she was somewhat recklessly sent, at the age of 14, to live in Los Angeles with a young photographer named William Mortensen, who was a friend of her second sister, Willow.
		Fay Wray went to New York to star in his musical play Nikki, which flopped but which introduced her to Cary Grant, who was still called Archie Leach ("Cary" was the name of his character in the play).
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/11/db1101.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/08/11/ixportal.html (1528 words)

	Fay Wray -- whose screams in the jungle scored 'King Kong' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fay Wray, a charming and intelligent actress of the late silent and early talkie screen, whose immortality is assured by her screamingly good performance in "King Kong" (1933), died Sunday in her Manhattan apartment.
		Wray made 11 films in 1933, including "One Sunday Afternoon," with Gary Cooper, which was later remade in the 1940s as "The Strawberry Blonde." She had another venture into the jungle in "Black Moon" (1934) and made a notable and poignant appearance in "Viva Villa" (1934), as a liberal aristocrat murdered by Villa's henchman.
		Wray's career slowed in the mid-'30s and by the end of the decade, she was appearing in supporting roles in one or two films a year.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/10/BAGUK85FFB1.DTL (929 words)

	'King Kong' Star Fay Wray Dies At 96 In New York
		Born Vina Fay Wray in Cardston, Alberta, on Sept. 15, 1907, she was one of six children.
		Wray was barely in her teens when she began her silver-screen career as a extra.
		Wray's character won praise for its combination of sex appeal, vulnerability and lung capacity as she was stalked by the beast to the top of the famed New York skyscraper.
	www.rense.com /general56/faywray.htm (475 words)

	'King Kong''s Fay Wray Dies :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wray apparently passed away quietly in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the 2003 documentary Broadway: The Golden Age, the last film she appeared in.
		Wray had a long and satisfying career, in which she appeared with such stars as Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy.
		Wray is survived by daughter, Susan, from her first marriage to Saunders, and two children, Robert and Vicky, with Riskin.
	www.hollywood.com /news/detail/article/2406935 (407 words)

	Denny Jackson's Fay Wray Page
		She was born Vina Fay Wray near Cardston, Alberta, Canada on September 15, 1907.
		Fay was from a large family that included five other siblings.
		Fay Wray died of an undisclosed ailment on August 8, 2004.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/wray.html (576 words)

	Fay Wray - Northern Stars
		Fay, who had been in frail health since the great influenza epidemic of World War I in which she lost her cherished older sister, followed her guiding star to California when she was fourteen.
		As Mitzi, Fay conveys emotions ranging from tenderness and sweetness in her scenes with the Prince to rage and abhorrence when she is confronted by Schani.
		In 1940, Fay heard the shocking news that Saunders had committed suicide, a tragedy that could have overwhelmed her except for her strength of character and deep-seated faith in the spiritual.
	www.northernstars.ca /actorsvz/wray_bio.html (1747 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - 'King Kong' Starlet Fay Wray Dies at 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vina Fay Wray was born in Canada on Sept. 15, 1907 and grew up in Los Angeles in a large family of six children.
		Wray's first husband, John Monk Saunders, whom she married at age 19, was a troubled alcoholic and drug addict.
		Wray is survived by her daughter Susan, from her first husband Saunders, and Robert and Vicki, whom she had with Riskin.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---22473,00.html (584 words)

	CBC Arts: King Kong star Fay Wray dies at 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wray was dubbed the Queen of Scream for her part in King Kong, as well as thrillers like Doctor X, Mystery Of The Wax Museum and The Vampire Bat, all released during 1932-1933.
		Wray says her aunt at times resented the fact King Kong overshadowed her other film achievements, but eventually she accepted her role in one of the best-known films of all time.
		Wray said that at one point in her life she considered her signature role a curse.
	www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2004/08/09/Arts/faywray080409.html (737 words)

	USATODAY.com - Empire State Building to honor Fay Wray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By Mike Appleton, AP Wray died quietly in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the 2003 documentary Broadway: The Golden Age, the last film she appeared in.
		Wray stayed active in recent years, touring the globe to promote The Wedding March when it was reissued in 1998 and flying to Los Angeles for her grandson's wedding just weeks ago.
		Wray had a daughter, Susan, from her first marriage and a daughter and son, Victoria and Robert Jr., by the second.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-08-10-empire-fay_x.htm (908 words)

	Actress Fay Wray Passes Away - Entertainment News
		Fay Wray, who will be forever immortalized as the object of King Kong's affections in the 1933 classic film, passed away Sunday at age 96.
		Vina Fay Wray was born in a small town in Alberta, Canada on Sept. 15, 1907 and grew up in Los Angeles in a large family of six children.
		Wray is survived by a daughter, Susan, from her first marriage, a daughter and son, Victoria and Robert Jr, from her second, and two grandchildren.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art23026.asp (403 words)

	The New York Times > Movies > Fay Wray, Star Who Stole Kong's Heart, Dies at 96 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fay Wray, the actress best known for her role in the original version of "King Kong,"; died on Sunday.
		Fay Wray was born on Sept. 15, 1907, on a farm in Alberta, a daughter of Jerry Wray, an inventor, and his wife, Vina.
		By the time Fay was 12 or 13, her parents had separated, a sister had died of the flu, and the family was struggling financially.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/08/10/movies/10wray.html?ex=1249876800&en=44b70f8824189764&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (1018 words)

	'King Kong' damsel Fay Wray dies at 96 - MORE MOVIE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
		King Kong views actress Fay Wray on a limb of a tree in a scene from the 1933 classic "King Kong." Wray, 96, died August 8 at her Manhattan apartment.
		Wray stayed active in recent years, McKay said, touring the globe to promote “The Wedding March” when it was reissued in 1998 and flying to Los Angeles for her grandson’s wedding just weeks ago.
		She was born Vina Fay Wray on Sept. 15, 1907, near Cardston in rural Alberta, Canada.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5651771 (1265 words)

	Up4U: Fay Wray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fay was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra.
		Fay was chosen as one of these starlets along with Janet Gaynor and Mary Astor.
		Fay’s character provided a combination of sex appeal, vulnerability and lung capacity as she was stalked by the giant beast all the way to the top of the Empire State Building.
	www.up4u.net /People/FayWray (450 words)

	Silent Era: People: Actresses: Fay Wray
		Fay Wray’s family moved from Alberta to Arizona in search of work when she was three years old.
		In 1926, Fay was selected along with 12 other young actresses (including Mary Astor and Janet Gaynor) by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers as a young starlet most likely to succeed in motion pictures.
		Fay Wray will forever be remembered for her role in King Kong (1933), a film which saved the RKO studio from bankruptcy.
	www.silentera.com /people/actresses/Wray-Fay.html (337 words)

	CTV.ca \| Screen legend Fay Wray dies at age 96
		Actress Fay Wray poses for a portrait at her home in the Century City section of Los Angeles, April 16, 1999.
		Fay Wray, who became a silver screen legend as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by a giant ape in the movie King Kong, has died at age 96.
		Wray was born Vina Fay Wray in Cardston, Alberta, on Sept. 15, 1907.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1092079485213_87488685?hub=TopStories (588 words)

	TheKansasCityChannel.com - Entertainment - 'King Kong' Star Fay Wray Dies
		Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in.
		Although she appeared in over 100 film and television roles, Wray won everlasting fame as Ann Darrow, the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape before he was shot by fighter planes and fell to his death.
		Wray wrote in her autobiography in 1988 that she loved the sight of the Empire State Building, made even more famous when King Kong carried her up the side in the film.
	www.thekansascitychannel.com /entertainment/3634098/detail.html (569 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| King Kong heroine is dead at 96
		Fay Wray is renowned as the damsel in distress in King Kong
		Wray was born in 1907 on a farm in Alberta, Canada, but emigrated to Los Angeles with her mother when her parents separated.
		In 1991 Wray was the guest of honour at a ceremony marking the 60th birthday of the Empire State Building.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3550264.stm (454 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Obituary: Fay Wray
		Fay Wray, who has died aged 96, played opposite some of the most attractive male stars of the golden era: Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Joel McCrea, George Raft and Fredric March, but her most celebrated partner was, as she had been promised by director Merian Cooper, "the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood".
		The 5ft 3in Wray only knew one part of the ape's body when she was grasped in an articulated 8ft long hand.
		Previous to King Kong, Wray had already become the scream queen in horror movies, where her wholesome good looks and innocent demeanour proved a striking contrast to the monsters that menaced her.
	film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,12589,1280654,00.html (1065 words)

	Fay Wray - Silent Star of September, 1997
		One of six children, Fay Wray and her family moved to Arizona when she was three and then to Utah where she spent most of her childhood.
		As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl.
		Although Fay felt the coming of sound destroyed a unique art, she successfully survived the change-over and appeared in a variety of talkies for Paramount such as Josef von Sternberg's first sound film, Thunderbolt.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/Sept97 (1684 words)

	Playbill News: Fay Wray, Blonde Beauty to King Kong, Dead at 96
		Fay Wray, the blonde beauty who was the undoing of a beast called King Kong in the famous motion picture, died of natural causes in New York City Aug. 8, according to newspaper reports.
		Wray, 96, had other roles in a varied career, but none so indelible as the voluptuous blonde she played in 1933's "King Kong," in which she was snatched by a giant ape and hauled up the length of the Empire State Building.
		Wray was known as "Queens of the B's," she once said, referring to her B-movie work.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/87839.html (550 words)

	Fay Wray
		Vina Fay Wray (born September 15, 1907) is a Canadian-born U.S. actress.
		Born near Cardston, Alberta[?], she is best-remembered for her role as the blonde seductress of a gigantic, prehistoric gorilla in the classic horror/adventure film King Kong (1933).
		Wray also appeared in many other films, mostly in the 1930s, including The Wedding March[?] (1928), The Four Feathers[?] (1929), The Most Dangerous Game[?] (1933), The Vampire Bat[?] (1933), and The Mystery of the Wax Museum[?] (1933).
	www.findword.org /fa/fay-wray.html (260 words)

	USATODAY.com - Fay Wray, 'King Kong' damsel, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fay Wray, 96, died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment.
		But audiences were as mesmerized as Kong himself by the squirming and sexy Fay Wray, whose beauty enchanted the beast despite her piercing screams of terror.
		Even though Wray, who died Sunday in New York at age 96, began her career in the silent era and appeared in more than 70 films, including 10 others in 1933, she often felt she was forever trapped in Kong's grip.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-08-09-wray-dies_x.htm (347 words)

	Fay Wray Dies at Age 96 (washingtonpost.com)
		Wray had leading roles in about 75 other motion pictures between 1923 and 1958 -- 11 alone in 1933, including "King Kong." But none would so define her career as that classic tale about unrequited love between a virginal beauty and a giant ape.
		Wray became a prototype of the horror-film heroine, a character who decorated more than dominated a movie and was gamely willing to shriek in terror.
		Wray was cupped in a six-foot-long mechanical device that doubled as Kong's arm and hand.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A52067-2004Aug9.html (910 words)

	The Terror Trap: Scream Queens: Fay Wray
		The original scream queen, Vina Fay Wray was born in September 1907 in Alberta, Canada.
		Relocating to Los Angeles as a child, Wray was educated at Hollywood High before landing a bit role in the 1923 comedy
		Wray lived quietly in Manhattan for the majority of her life before passing away in August 2004.
	www.terrortrap.com /screamqueens/wray.htm (413 words)

	"King Kong" Beauty Fay Wray Dead - Aug 09, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Wray, the platinum-haired heroine of the original King Kong, died Sunday in New York City.
		Wray appeared in nearly 100 films, from the silent era to the Jimmy Carter administration.
		Wray worked steadily in episodic TV in the 1950s, and costarred in the 1953-54 ABC sitcom The Pride of the Family, featuring a teenaged Natalie Wood.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,14678,00.html?tnews (531 words)

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