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Fay Kanin (May 9, 1917 – March 27, 2013) was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president from 1979 to 1983.
Born Fay Mitchell in New York City to David and Bessie (née Kaiser) Mitchell, she was raised in Elmira, New York, where she won the New York State Spelling Championship at twelve and was presented with a silver cup by then Governor Franklin Roosevelt. She was encouraged to write for money by supplying small items to the Elmira Star-Gazette. She was Jewish.
In high school, she wrote and produced a children’s radio show. On a full scholarship, she attended the private, all-female Elmira College where she divided her studies between writing and acting and editing the yearbook. Fay’s mother took her daughter to visit her grandmother in the Bronx, and it was there that she became devoted to the theater when she saw a matinée of Idiot’s Delight starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
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