Fay Wray
September 1st, 2004 by Andre Soares
Fay Wray, best remembered as King Kong’s highly vocal love interest in the 1933 interspecies-romance classic, died in New York City on August 8, 2004. She would have turned 97 on September 15.
Besides King Kong (1933), Wray also screamed and/or fainted in several other motion pictures of the 1930s, including the thriller The Most Dangerous Game / The Hounds of Zaroff (1932), opposite Joel McCrea, and a couple of two-strip Technicolor horror films directed by Michael Curtiz, Doctor X (1932) and The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), both starring Lionel Atwill.
Although she is regarded as the Screaming Queen of Old Hollywood, Wray played a wide range of roles in a career that spanned more than half a century. In fact, she was at her best as an unhappy bride in Erich von Stroheim’s overwrought silent melodrama The Wedding March (1927) and as a flirtatious young maiden in the Twentieth Century production The Affairs of Cellini (1934), in which she displayed her light-comedy skills to good advantage.
Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Academy Awards
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