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March 13, 1999, NYC. Playwright Garson Kanin was a 20th Century Renaissance Man: a musician, burlesque comedian, actor, stage and film director, writer, and raconteur. He wrote plays, essays, screenplays, short stories, novels, memoirs, songs, and a libretto, and directed plays, musicals, documentaries and films.
Mini Bio. 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.
Apr 29, 2024 · 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).
Mar 14, 1999 · Garson Kanin, writer and director of movies and plays, including two classic Tracy-Hepburn films, dies at age 86; photos (M)
Mar 14, 1999 · Versatile as well as prolific, Mr. Kanin was a musician, stage and radio actor, novelist and memoirist. He wrote "Born Yesterday" as a play, directed it on Broadway and wrote the screenplay for ...
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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).
May 26, 1999 · Gershon Labe (Garson Kanin), playwright, scriptwriter, theatre and film director: born Rochester, New York 24 November 1912; married 1942 Ruth Gordon (died 1985), 1990 Marian Seldes; died New York ...
