This screenwriter and playwright began working in Hollywood in the early 1940s, usually in collaboration with her husband, Michael Kanin, and blossomed after his retirement as a writer and producer of some of the small screen's most distinguished TV-movies. Statuesque, articulate, with the air of a socialite, Fay Kanin became an industry leader through her presidency of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences from 1983-88.Born Fay Mitchell in NYC, she married Michael Kanin in 1940, a few years after he had abandoned a career as a commercial artist and begun writing. They moved to Hollywood,
