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Jay Kanter Dies: Film Producer & Agent To Marlon Brando, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe Was 97


Jay Ira Kanter, veteran film producer and agent to a long list of Hollywood luminaries including Marlon Brandon, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, among others has died. He was 97.

Jay Ira Kanter, veteran film producer and agent to a long list of Hollywood luminaries including Marlon Brandon, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, among others has died. Credits of the films he worked on include classics and Academy Award winners such as Chariots of Fire, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Alien, Thelma and Louise, Julia, Blade Runner, Body Heat, Norma Rae, Turning Point, The Right Stuff, Star 80 and the Police Academy franchise. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to either the Motion Picture Television Fund or the Jules Stein Eye Institute.

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