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'King Kong' damsel Fay Wray dies at 96
FAY WRAY (May 2004) photo by Jeff Christensen / Reuters file
Updated: 5:09 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2004(excerpt)
NEW 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.
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.”
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