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10 Facts About Faith Hubley

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Faith Hubley was an American animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death.

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Faith Hubley spoke little about her childhood and left home at age 15 to work in the theater.

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Faith Hubley subsequently worked as a sound-effects and music editor, and then as a script clerk for Republic Pictures.

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Faith Hubley was later a script supervisor for12 Angry Men and an editor for Go, Man, Go, with the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Faith Hubley was a painter, with her works being exhibited in galleries in Europe and the United States.

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Faith Hubley taught at the Yale School of Art in the 1990s.

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The Academy Film Archive preserved several of Faith Hubley's films, including A Smattering of Spots, A Doonesbury Special, and The Hole.

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Faith Hubley received honors from the Cannes, Venice, London, and San Francisco film festivals.

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Faith Hubley won fourteen CINE Golden Eagle awards, and received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Hofstra University.

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Faith Hubley died in 2001, age 77, in New Haven, Connecticut, following a long battle with breast cancer, 26 years after her initial diagnosis.