Stanley R. Jaffe, the producer and studio executive who won an Oscar in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer and shepherded other acclaimed films like Fatal Attraction , Goodbye, Columbus and The Bad News Bears ...

Kramer, before the 1977 novel would reach bookstores. The producer hired Robert Benton to write and direct the film and took a chance in casting a relatively untested Meryl Streep, and the drama ...