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Garson Kanin was born in Rochester, New York; his Jewish family later relocated to Detroit then to New York City. He attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, dropping out to take up a career on the theatre stage.
KANIN, GARSON (1912–1999), U.S. playwright and director. Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, became a Hollywood director for Samuel Goldwyn at 25. He directed John Barrymore in A Great Man Votes (1939) and Ginger Rogers in both Bachelor Mother (1939) and Tom, Dick and Harry (1941).
Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films.
Garson Kanin. Writer: Adam's Rib. Garson Kanin has worked as an actor on stage and as a director on Broadway and in Hollywood, but his best-known work is as a writer. During the Great Depression, he dropped out of high school to help support his family by working as a musician and later as a comedian.
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Garson Kanin (born November 24, 1912, Rochester, New York, U.S.—died March 13, 1999, New York, New York) was an American writer and director who was perhaps best known for several classic comedies written with his wife, the actress-writer Ruth Gordon, and for the play Born Yesterday (1946).
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Garson Kanin: Self-Expression. Interview by Pat McGilligan. When, in 1961, New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons wrote that Garson Kanin's writing "was influenced by Gertrude Stein," author John O'Hara, for one, was highly amused.
At night, while Nazi bombs blitzed London, Kanin wrote a draft of Born Yesterday, still his most widely performed play. After the war, Garson Kanin experienced a creative explosion that established his reputation as one of America’s accomplished and most influential talents.
