Fay Kanin, Hollywood screenwriter and former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), has died at Beverly Hills, California. She was 95.
AMPAS confirmed the death of its first full-term female president on Wednesday but failed to provide any details about her survivors and cause of death, reports Xinhua.
Born Fay Mitchell on 9 May, 1917 in New York city, Kanin attended University of Southern California and became a story editor at the RKO Pictures. With Michael Kanin, who became her husband and writing partner, she embarked on a long writing career.
The Kanins cooperated on such unremarkable films including 1952 comedy My Pal Gus, the 1954 Elizabeth Taylor film Rhapsody and 1956 musical remake The Opposite Sex.
In 1958, their work on Teacher’s Pet, which starred Clark Gable and Doris Day in a love-hate relationship, paid off, as the comedy earned the couple their only Oscar nomination.
AMPAS confirmed the death of its first full-term female president on Wednesday but failed to provide any details about her survivors and cause of death, reports Xinhua.
Born Fay Mitchell on 9 May, 1917 in New York city, Kanin attended University of Southern California and became a story editor at the RKO Pictures. With Michael Kanin, who became her husband and writing partner, she embarked on a long writing career.
The Kanins cooperated on such unremarkable films including 1952 comedy My Pal Gus, the 1954 Elizabeth Taylor film Rhapsody and 1956 musical remake The Opposite Sex.
In 1958, their work on Teacher’s Pet, which starred Clark Gable and Doris Day in a love-hate relationship, paid off, as the comedy earned the couple their only Oscar nomination.