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    Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films. Garson Kanin was born in Rochester, New York;...
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    1946 stage play of the same name by Garson Kanin. The screenplay was credited to Albert Mannheimer. According to Kanin's autobiography, Cukor did not like...
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    Adam's Rib (category Films with screenplays by Garson Kanin)
    directed by George Cukor from a screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who...
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  • Born Yesterday (play) (category Works by Garson Kanin)
    Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn. The play was adapted into...
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  • Voivodeship, a village in Poland Kanin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in Poland Ethan Kanin Fay Kanin Garson Kanin Prince Kan'in Kotohito This disambiguation...
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  • Smash (novel) (category Works by Garson Kanin)
    Smash is an American novel by Garson Kanin. Published in 1980 by Viking Press, the book follows the creation of a Broadway musical about vaudeville performer...
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    My Favorite Wife (category Films directed by Garson Kanin)
    is a 1940 screwball comedy produced by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The picture stars Irene Dunne as a woman who, after being shipwrecked...
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    hosts, Ronald and Benita Colman and witnesses, Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin. Leigh had made a screen test and hoped to co-star with Olivier in Rebecca...
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    Ruth Gordon (category Kanin family)
    Leading Lady. Gordon married her second husband, writer Garson Kanin, in 1942. Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn –...
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    self-centered independence. The idea for the film was proposed to her in 1941 by Garson Kanin, who recalled how Hepburn contributed to the script. She presented the...
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  • Coburn. The film's script—from Two's a Crowd, an original screenplay by Garson Kanin (uncredited)—was written by Robert Russell, Frank Ross, Richard Flournoy...
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  • Bachelor Mother (category Films directed by Garson Kanin)
    Bachelor Mother (1939) is an American romantic comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay...
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  • Yesterday is a 1993 American comedy film based on Born Yesterday, a play by Garson Kanin. It stars Melanie Griffith, John Goodman and Don Johnson. It was adapted...
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    Directors of screwball comedies: Frank Capra George Cukor Howard Hawks Garson Kanin Gregory La Cava Mitchell Leisen Ernst Lubitsch Leo McCarey George Stevens...
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    Sheldon‡ Body and Soul Abraham Polonsky A Double Life Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin Monsieur Verdoux Charlie Chaplin Shoeshine Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci...
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  • 5, 1955. The play was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and directed by Garson Kanin, with scenic design by Boris Aronson and lighting design by Lee Watson...
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  • job was writing and acting in Catskills resort shows with his brother Garson Kanin. In 1939, he was signed to a screenwriting contract at RKO. He married...
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  • Pat and Mike (category Films with screenplays by Garson Kanin)
    Gordon and Garson Kanin, and directed by George Cukor. Cukor directed The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn, and Cukor, Gordon and Kanin teamed with...
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  • The Marrying Kind (category Films with screenplays by Garson Kanin)
    Farrell, Frank Ferguson, Ruth Gordon (who co-wrote the screenplay with Garson Kanin), Gordon Jones, Madge Kennedy, Nancy Kulp, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Joan...
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    sold-out crowd and tepid response. It was a difficult production; director Garson Kanin later wrote: "In the ten days prior to the New York opening all the important...
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  • A Double Life (1947 film) (category Films with screenplays by Garson Kanin)
    directed by George Cukor, with its screenplay written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Colman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. Celebrated...
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  • and Herbert Baker from an uncredited 1955 short story, "Do Re Mi" by Garson Kanin. Filmed in DeLuxe Color, the production was originally intended as a...
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  • Where It's At (film) (category Films directed by Garson Kanin)
    Where It's At is a 1969 American drama film written and directed by Garson Kanin and starring David Janssen, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Drivas, Brenda Vaccaro...
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  • film directed by John Erman. It is based on the 1979 novel Moviola by Garson Kanin. Set in late 1930s Hollywood, it is about the search for the actress...
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  • Reich. Although many individuals, including screenwriter and director Garson Kanin, contributed to the film, British director Carol Reed is normally credited...
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    was no romantic interest at this time, however, as she recounted to Garson Kanin: "[we] did all kinds of hot love scenes ... and I never got any kind...
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  • Some Kind of a Nut (category Films directed by Garson Kanin)
    Kind of a Nut is a 1969 American comedy film written and directed by Garson Kanin and starring Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson and Rosemary Forsyth. This...
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  • comedy-drama film starring Kevin Dobson and Sharon Gless. It was written by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, their first collaboration since The Marrying Kind. Kevin...
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    Born Yesterday. Author Garson Kanin wrote the play for Jean Arthur; but when Arthur left New York for personal reasons, Kanin selected Holliday, two decades...
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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Tracy and Hepburn: an intimate memoir, by Garson Kanin An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn...
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