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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.
On August 28, 1985, Gordon died at her summer home in Edgartown, Massachusetts, following a stroke at age 88. [19] Her husband for 43 years, Garson Kanin, was at her side and said that even her last day of life was typically full, with walks, talks, errands, and a morning of work on a new play.
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.
Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin and Marian Seldes | Minnesota Playlist. Editorial. July 11, 2017. By Steven LaVigne. SHARE: Theater creates strange bedfellows, and while this trio weren’t really that strange, their lives and creative output were singular. Ruth Gordon Jones (1896-1985) had a philosophy that remains valuable.
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...
