NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 ...

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Actress Fay Wray, who famously struggled helplessly in the giant hand of King Kong, died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment. She was 96. She appeared in more than 70 features, but her name will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some movie stars fought their way to the top, some probably slept their way to the top. Fay Wray, who died Sunday at 96 in Manhattan, screamed her way to the top. And it was really a top: the top of ...

Carole Little grew up with a scream queen. Fay Wray, who became an icon for her portrayal of blond and beautiful Ann Darrow in the original "King Kong," was Little's stepmother. Even though Wray ...

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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.

The actress Fay Wray, 96, who died of a heart ailment Aug. 8 at her home in New York, will forever have a place in screen and scream history. She was the blond damsel in distress in the original "King ...

In "King Kong," she plays an unemployed actress who agrees to take a job with a movie company that is going on location to a mysterious island. Kong is the huge ape that inhabits a part of the island.

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 ...