In "King Kong," she plays an unemployed actress who agrees to take a job with a movie company that is going on location to a mysterious island. Kong is the huge ape that inhabits a part of the island.

The actress Fay Wray, 96, who died of a heart ailment Aug. 8 at her home in New York, will forever have a place in screen and scream history. She was the blond damsel in distress in the original "King ...