Biography fay wray
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Fay Wray
American actress (1907–2004)
Not to be confused with Fayray or Fay Ray.
Fay Wray | |
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1942 studio publicity portrait | |
| Born | Vina Fay Wray (1907-09-15)September 15, 1907 Cardston, Alberta, Canada |
| Died | August 8, 2004(2004-08-08) (aged 96) New York City, U.S. |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1923–1980 |
| Spouses | John Monk Saunders (m. 1928; div. 1939)Robert Riskin (m. 1942; died 1955)Sanford Rothenberg (m. 1971; died 1991) |
| Children | 3, including Victoria Riskin |
Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray attaine
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Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age. She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career as a heroine in westerns at Universal during the silent era. In 1926 the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected 13 young starlets it deemed most likely to succeed in pictures. Fay was chosen as one of these starlets, along with Janet Gaynor and Mary Astor. Fame would indeed come to Fay when she played another heroine in Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March (1928). She continued playing leads in a number of films, such as the good-bad girl in Thunderbolt (1929). bygd the early 1930s she was at Paramount working with Gary Cooper and Jack skogsdunge in a number of average films, such as Master of Men (1933). She also appeared in such horror films as Doctor X (1932) and The Vampire Bat (1933). In 1933 Fay was approached bygd producer Merian C. Cooper, who told her that he had a part for her in a p
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Fay Wray
Fay Wray (born Vina Fay Wray; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004)[1] was a Canadian-American actress. She is best known for playing Ann Darrow in King Kong. Her acting career spanned 57 years, Wray received international renown as an actress in horror movie roles.
In 1989, Wray received the Women in Film Crystal Award.[2] Wray received a "Legend in Film" award at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival. For her contribution to the movie industry, Wray received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6349 Hollywood Blvd. She received a star posthumously on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto on June 5, 2005.
A small park near Lee's Creek on Main Street in Cardston, Alberta, her birthplace, was named "Fay Wray Park". The small sign at the edge of the park on Main Street has a silhouette of King Kong on it, remembering her role in the film King Kong. A large oil portrait of Wray by Alberta artist Neil Boyle is on display in the Empress