King Kong's Damsel, Fay Wray, Dies at 96

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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.

Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.

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King Kong's Damsel, Fay Wray, Dies at 96

"She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep," said McKay, director of the documentary "Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There."

"She just kind of gave out."

Before her career started in 1923, Wray spent a chunk of her childhood living in Salt Lake City.

She was born in Canada bu...

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