NEW YORK -- Fay Wray, who won everlasting fame as the damsel heldatop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 filmclassic "King Kong," has died. She was 96.
Miss Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay,a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was noofficial cause of death.
"She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going tosleep," said McKay, director of the documentary "Broadway: The GoldenAge, by the Legends Who Were There." "She just kind of gave out."
During a career that started in 1923, Miss Wray appeared with suchstars as Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy, but wasdestined to be …
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