American film and theatre director, playwright, screenwriter
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Garson Kanin
Kanin in 1946
Born
(1912-11-24)November 24, 1912
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Died
March 13, 1999(1999-03-13) (aged 86)
New York City, U.S.[1]
Years active
1939–1993
Spouse(s)
Ruth Gordon (1942–1985; her death) Marian Seldes (1990–1999; his death)
Relatives
Michael Kanin (brother)
Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films.
^Garson Kanin, a Writer and Director of Classic Movies and Plays, Is Dead at 86
GarsonKanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. GarsonKanin was born in Rochester, New York;...
hosts, Ronald and Benita Colman and witnesses, Katharine Hepburn and GarsonKanin. Leigh had made a screen test and hoped to co-star with Olivier in Rebecca...
self-centered independence. The idea for the film was proposed to her in 1941 by GarsonKanin, who recalled how Hepburn contributed to the script. She presented the...
Leading Lady. Gordon married her second husband, writer GarsonKanin, in 1942. Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn –...
Gordon and GarsonKanin, and directed by George Cukor. Cukor directed The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn, and Cukor, Gordon and Kanin teamed with...
job was writing and acting in Catskills resort shows with his brother GarsonKanin. In 1939, he was signed to a screenwriting contract at RKO. He married...
Coburn. The film's script—from Two's a Crowd, an original screenplay by GarsonKanin (uncredited)—was written by Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy...
Sheldon‡ Body and Soul Abraham Polonsky A Double Life Ruth Gordon & GarsonKanin Monsieur Verdoux Charlie Chaplin Shoeshine Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci...
awards for his work, including the Helen Merrill Award, the Marian Seldes-GarsonKanin Fellowship, and McKnight and Jerome Fellowships from The Playwrights'...
Voivodeship, a village in Poland Kanin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in Poland Ethan Kanin Fay KaninGarsonKanin Prince Kan'in Kotohito This disambiguation...
Directors of screwball comedies: Frank Capra George Cukor Howard Hawks GarsonKanin Gregory La Cava Mitchell Leisen Ernst Lubitsch Leo McCarey George Stevens...
sold-out crowd and tepid response. It was a difficult production; director GarsonKanin later wrote: "In the ten days prior to the New York opening all the important...
is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by GarsonKanin. The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked...
Kind of a Nut is a 1969 American comedy film written and directed by GarsonKanin and starring Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson and Rosemary Forsyth. This...
Farrell, Frank Ferguson, Ruth Gordon (who co-wrote the screenplay with GarsonKanin), Gordon Jones, Madge Kennedy, Nancy Kulp, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Joan...
Reich. Although many individuals, including screenwriter and director GarsonKanin, contributed to the film, British director Carol Reed is normally credited...
was no romantic interest at this time, however, as she recounted to GarsonKanin: "[we] did all kinds of hot love scenes ... and I never got any kind...
of the Year (1942), based on an original story by his brother GarsonKanin. Fay Kanin wrote the play, Goodbye, My Fancy, (originally titled Most Likely...
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Tracy and Hepburn: an intimate memoir, by GarsonKanin An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn...
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