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Fay Wray
Vina Fay Wray 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 attained international recognition as an actress in horror films. She has been dubbed the first "scream queen".
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entertainment · American actress (1907–2004) · film actor · actor · television actor · screenwriter · also Fay Wray, Vina Fay Wray, Wray
Born 15 September 1907 · Died 8 August 2004 · Q266694
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2019· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Fay Wray and Robert Riskin’ Review: Love Lines
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2016· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Fay Wray cinema card
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2005).
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2004· 3 entries
Buffalo News: FAY WRAY, ACHIEVED FAME AS DAMSEL ABDUCTED BY KING KONG IN '33 FILM DIED AUG. 8, 2004
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Sioux City Journal: Fay Wray, 'King Kong' damsel, dies at age 96
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Died 2004-08-08.
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1998· 1 entry
Appeared at the Pine Bluff Film Festival, which showed The Wedding March with live orchestral accompaniment
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1991· 2 entries
Was crowned Queen of the Beaux Arts Ball, presiding with King Herbert Huncke
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Was a guest of honor at the building's 60th anniversary, and in May 2004, she made one of her last public appearances at the ESB
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1989· 3 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1989).
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Her autobiography was released, On the Other Hand
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Wray was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award
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1965· 1 entry
“The Case of the Fatal Fetish”
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1960· 1 entry
Appeared as Clara in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip, "Who Killed Cock Robin
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1959· 2 entries
Wray was cast as Tula Marsh in the episode "The Second Happiest Day" of Playhouse 90
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“The Case of the Watery Witness”
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1958· 1 entry
“The Case of the Prodigal Parent”
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1942· 1 entry
After her second marriage but due to financial exigencies she soon resumed her acting career, and over the next three decades, she appeared in several films and appeared frequently on television
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1926· 2 entries
Director Erich von Stroheim cast her as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March, released by Paramount two years later
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The Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected Wray as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars", a group of women whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom
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1923· 1 entry
Wray appeared in her first film at the age of 16, when she landed a role in a short historical film sponsored by a local newspaper
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1919· 1 entry
The Wray family returned to Salt Lake City, and then relocated to Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School
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1907· 1 entry
Born 1907-09-15.
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