Cardston Native Best Remembered in Kong's Clutches

The Great Falls Tribune features a story on Cardston, Alberta native Fay Wray. Wray co-starred along with one of the "biggest" actor's of all time, King Kong, as Anne Darrow in the 1933 film by Merian Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

"As it turns out, the actress was born on the Wray Ranch outside Cardston, a town just north of the Canadian-Montana border in Alberta.

Wray was born in the area, but the family didn't stay in Alberta long, moving to Arizona when Fay was three years old and later California. It was in California that Wray, born Vina Fay Wray, began to get bit parts in the movies as a youngster.

Years later, King Kong emerged as a highly regarded horror film of its time, and Wray was at the top of her career — as well as at the top of the Empire State Building with the star-crossed King Kong."

It seems that Wray (who passed away in 2004) was asked to play a cameo role in the new Peter Jackson film, but declined the invitation. More information on Fay Wray at Wikipedia and Northern Stars.