Fay Wray

Wray was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada to Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, Utah, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Hull, Yorkshire.[1] Her family moved to the United States when she was three. Although Wray's autobiography discusses her Mormon parentage and makes it clear that she was culturally Mormon, she was apparently never baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Wray's family lived in predominantly Mormon communities in Alberta, Arizona and Salt Lake City, Utah before settling in Los Angeles, California, where she got her first film work in Hal Roach comedy shorts and in low-budget westerns in the early 1920s Wray gained media attention when she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, which landed her a contract at Paramount Pictures.In 1928, director Erich von Stroheim cast Wray as the main female lead in his troubled production of The Wedding March, which sent Hollywood in a buzz for its high budget and production values. It was a financial failure, but it gave Wray her first lead role.She is best remembered for her role as Ann Darrow, the blonde seductress of a gigantic, prehistoric gorilla in the classic horror/adventure film King Kong (1933). She wore a blonde wig over her naturally dark hair for the role. There have been claims the screams emanated from actress Julie Haydon, and dubbed for Wray, but that has been disputed Filmography Gasoline Love (1923) Thundering Landlords (1925) No Father to Guide Him (1925) The Coast Patrol (1925) Sure-Mike (1925) What Price Goofy (1925) Isn't Life Terrible? (1925) Chasing the Chaser (1925) Madame Sans Jane (1925) Unfriendly Enemies (1925) Your Own Back Yard (1925) Moonlight and Noses (1925) Should Sailors Marry? (1925) WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1926 (1926) One Wild Time (1926) Don Key (A Son of a Burro) (1926) The Man in the Saddle (1926) Don't Shoot (1926) The Wild Horse Stampede (1926) The Saddle Tramp (1926) The Show Cowpuncher (1926) Lazy Lightning (1926) Loco Luck (1927) A One Man Game (1927) Spurs and Saddles (1927) A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927) The Honeymoon (1928) (unreleased) The Legion of the Condemned (1928) Street of Sin (1928) The First Kiss (1928) The Wedding March (1928) Thunderbolt (1929) The Four Feathers (1929) Pointed Heels (1929) Behind the Make-Up (1930) Paramount on Parade (1930) The Texan (1930) The Border Legion (1930) The Sea God (1930) Captain Thunder (1930) The Conquering Horde (1931) Three Rogues (1931) The Slippery Pearls (1931) Dirigible (1931) The Finger Points (1931) The Lawyer's Secret (1931) The Unholy Garden (1931) Hollywood on Parade (1932) Stowaway (1932) Doctor X (1932) The Most Dangerous Game (1932) The Vampire Bat (1932) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) King Kong (1933) Below the Sea (1933) Ann Carver's Profession (1933) The Woman I Stole (1933) Shanghai Madness (1933) The Big Brain (1933) One Sunday Afternoon (1933) The Bowery (1933) Master of Men (1933) The Clairvoyant (1934) Madame Spy (1934) The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934) Once to Every Woman (1934) Viva Villa! (1934) The Affairs of Cellini (1934) Black Moon (1934) The Richest Girl in the World (1934) Cheating Cheaters (1934) Woman in the Dark (1934) Come Out of the Pantry (1935) Mills of the Gods (1935) Bulldog Jack (1935) White Lies (1935) When Knight Were Bold (1936) Roaming Lady (1936) They Met in a Taxi (1936) It Happened in Hollywood (1937) Murder in Greenwich Village (1937) The Jury's Secret (1938) Smashing the Spy Ring (1939) Navy Secrets (1939) Wildcat Bus (1940) Melody for Three (1941) Adam Had Four Sons (1941) Not a Ladies' Man (1942) Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) Small Town Girl (1953) Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) The Cobweb (1955) Queen Bee (1955) Rock, Pretty Baby (1956) Crime of Passion (1957) Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) Summer Love (1958) Dragstrip Riot (1958) Gideons Trumpet(1980) Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997) (documentary) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary) href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"