![]() ![]() Wray was lured into the film by the co-director Merian Cooper's promise that she would star opposite "the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood". The city, where Kong held Wray at the pinnacle of the Empire State Building, was the other star of the film. ![]() ![]() Fay Wray, the actor who secured her place in movie history by playing the love interest of a giant gorilla in King Kong, died in New York on Sunday night at the age of 96.Īlthough she made more than 100 films and worked with most of the leading directors and actors of the day, she is almost solely remembered for her performance as Ann Darrow, an unemployed actor invited by a film producer to the remote Skull Island to act as bait for the giant gorilla, which is captured and taken to New York.
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