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Kanin was married to his frequent collaborator, Academy Award-winning actress Ruth Gordon from 1942 to her death in 1985. In 1990, he married stage actress Marian Seldes. Kanin died in 1999, age 86, of undisclosed causes. Bibliography Novels. Do Re Mi (1955) Blow Up a Storm (1959) The Rat Race (1960) (Novelization of his screenplay)
Gordon married her second husband, writer Garson Kanin, in 1942. Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). Both films were directed by George Cukor. They were close friends of Hepburn and Tracy, and they incorporated elements of the actors ...
Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. In his introduction to an interview with Kanin in 1991, McGilligan stated that the films the couple wrote together “signaled, to a large extent, the high tide of American sophisticated comedy.”
Actress Ruth Gordon, whose roguish heart and enduring grace lighted the world’s stages and motion picture screens for seven decades, died “peacefully in her sleep” Wednesday in Edgartown,...
Ruth Gordon, American writer and actress who achieved award-winning acclaim in both pursuits. With her second husband, Garson Kanin, she wrote such movies as A Double Life, Adam’s Rib, and Pat and Mike. Her acting credits included the films Rosemary’s Baby and Harold and Maude.
Garson Kanin, Miss Gordon's husband of 43 years, said that even her last day of life was typically full, with walks, talks, errands and a morning of work on a new play. She made her last...
When she was not acting, she was writing - stage plays, screenplays in collaboration with her husband Garson Kanin and memoirs. Most important, she was being Ruth Gordon, which was a...
