American screenwriter, playwright and producer.
The writer (and co-writer) or more than 18 films and teleplays, and at least five stage plays, Fay Kanin collaborated on a number of works with her screenwriter husband, Michael Kanin (whom she met in 1936). After completing a bachelor degree at the University of Southern California, where she became active in college radio, Kanin was hired by RKO as story editor, and later a script reader. Her first screenplay to be produced was Sunday Punch (1942). Later films included My Pal Gus (1952), Rhapsody (q.v., 1954, with Michael Kanin, Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz), Teacher's Pet (1958), and The Right Approach (1961). Her teleplays include: Heat of Anger (1972), Tell Me Where it Hurts (1974), Friendly Fire (1979) and Heartsounds (1984). Kanin's stage plays are: Goodbye, My Fancy (1947), Grind (1985), and three co-written with Michael Kanin - His and Hers (1954), Rashomon (1959), and The Gay Life (9161),
Kanin was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.
