| Fay Wray  AKA Vina Fay Wray
Born: 15-Sep-1907
Birthplace: Cardston, Alberta, Canada
Died: 8-Aug-2004
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: King Kong Fay Wray was born in Canada but raised in Arizona, then Utah, then Los Angeles. At 15 she landed a small role in her first movie, Gasoline Love (1923). Her big break was the female lead in the silent classic The Wedding March (1928), co-starring with early auteur Erich von Stroheim.
As Wray tells the story, she was offered a role opposite "the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood", and she hoped it was Clark Gable, but instead it was King Kong (1933). She played the giant gorilla's love interest, Ann Darrow. It was her most famous role, and made hers Hollywood's most famous scream for decades.
Wray retired from films in the 1940s, returning in the '50s to make not-so-classics like Tammy and the Bachelor (1957). Her last acting was a supporting role in Henry Fonda's 1980 TV movie, Gideon's Trumpet. In recent decades, she's written an autobiography, On the Other Hand, and a play, The Meadowlark. Husband: John Monk Saunders (writer, m. 1928, div. 1939)
Husband: Robert Riskin (writer, m. 1942, d. 1955)
Husband: Sandy Rothenberg (neurosurgeon, m. 1960s, d. 1990s)
Boyfriend: Clifford Odets
High School: Hollywood High School, Hollywood, CA
Canada's Walk of Fame 2005
TELEVISION
The Pride of the Family Catherine Morrison (1953-55)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Broadway: The Golden Age (Apr-2003) · Herself
Universal Horror (8-Oct-1998) · Herself
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (Oct-1997) · Herself
Gideon's Trumpet (30-Apr-1980)
Summer Love (10-Mar-1958)
Dragstrip Riot (Mar-1958)
Tammy and the Bachelor (14-Jun-1957)
Crime of Passion (9-Jan-1957) · Alice Pope
Rock, Pretty Baby (Dec-1956)
Queen Bee (7-Nov-1955) · Sue McKinnon
The Cobweb (7-Jun-1955) · Edna Devanal
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
Small Town Girl (10-Apr-1953) · Mrs. Gordon Kimbell
Treasure of the Golden Condor (4-Feb-1953)
Adam Had Four Sons (27-Mar-1941) · Molly
Melody for Three (1941)
Wildcat Bus (23-Aug-1940) · Ted Dawson
Murder in Greenwich Village (3-Nov-1937)
It Happened in Hollywood (7-Sep-1937) · Gloria Gay
When Knights Were Bold (19-Feb-1936)
Alias Bulldog Drummond (Apr-1935) · Ann Manders
Woman in the Dark (9-Nov-1934)
The Richest Girl in the World (21-Sep-1934) · Sylvia
Black Moon (15-Jun-1934)
The Affairs of Cellini (5-May-1934)
Viva Villa! (10-Apr-1934) · Teresa
The Clairvoyant (1934) · Rene
The Bowery (7-Oct-1933) · Lucy Calhoun
One Sunday Afternoon (1-Sep-1933) · Virginia Brush
Shanghai Madness (4-Aug-1933)
Ann Carver's Profession (9-Jun-1933)
Below the Sea (29-Mar-1933) · Diana
King Kong (2-Mar-1933) · Ann Darrow
Mystery of the Wax Museum (17-Feb-1933) · Charlotte Duncan
The Vampire Bat (10-Jan-1933) · Ruth Bertin
The Most Dangerous Game (9-Sep-1932) · Eve
Doctor X (3-Aug-1932) · Joanne
The Unholy Garden (28-Oct-1931)
The Finger Points (11-Apr-1931) · Marcia Collins
Dirigible (4-Apr-1931) · Helen
Captain Thunder (27-Dec-1930)
The Texan (10-May-1930)
Paramount on Parade (22-Apr-1930)
Behind the Make-Up (11-Jan-1930)
Thunderbolt (20-Jun-1929)
The Four Feathers (Jun-1929)
The Wedding March (6-Oct-1928)
The Legion of the Condemned (10-Mar-1928)
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