OBITUARY

Fay Kanin dies at 95; screenwriter was former Academy president

 

 

 

Kanin, who shared a best original screenplay Oscar nomination for 1958’s ‘Teacher’s Pet,’ was the second female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

 

By Daniel Miller

Los Angeles Times

March 27, 2013

 

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy “Teacher’s Pet” and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95.

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