Complete List of Works & Credits

Acting: Stage, Television
Directing & Writing: Stage, Film, Television
Writing: Novels, Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Short Nonfiction, Plays Published

Actor – Stage

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Additional Details	Location
Remembering Mr. Maugham	“Garson”	November 1966, April 1967, March & July 1969	Adapted by Mr. Kanin from his memoir
Star Spangled	“Vincent Chenevski”	March 1936	Directed by Arthur Hopkins, Written by Robert Ardrey
Boy Meets Girl	“Green”	November 1935	Directed by George Abbott Written by Bella and Sam Spewack
The Body Beautiful	“Izzy Cohen”	October 1935	Directed by Robert Rossen Written by Robert Rossen
Three Men on a Horse	“Al”	January 1935	Directed by George Abbott; Written by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm
Ladies’ Money	“Red”	November 1934	Directed by George Abbott; Written by George Abbott
Spring Song	“A Young Man”	October 1934	Directed by Eddie Sobol; Written by Bella and Sam Spewack

Director & Playwright – Stage

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Writer(s)	Additional Details	Location
Happy Ending	Director, Writer	November 1988	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Peter Donat, Marian Seldes	Bristol Riverside Theatre, Bristol PA
Peccadillo	Director, Writer	February 1985	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Christopher Plummer, Glynis Johns, Kelly McGillis	Royal Poinciana Theater, FL Parker Playhouse, FL
Ho! Ho! Ho!	Director	August 1976	Ruth Gordon		Cape Playhouse, Dennis, MA
Dreyfus in Rehearsal	Director	October 1974	Adapted by Mr Kanin from a play by Jean-Claude Grumberg	Notable Cast: Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene, Tovah Feldshuh, Allan Arbus, Avery Schreiber	Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY
Idiot’s Delight	Director	March 1970	Robert E. Sherwood	Notable Cast: Jack Lemmon, Rosemary Harris	Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles
We Have Always Lived in the Castle	Director	October 1966	Adapted by Hugh Wheeler from a novel by Shirley Jackson	Notable Cast: Shirley Knight	Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY
Remembering Mr Maugham	Director, Writer, Actor	November 1966, April 1967, March 1969, July 1969	Adapted by Mr Kanin from his memoir	Notable Cast: Garson Kanin and Dennis King	Poetry Center, November 1966, The Players, April 1967, The Library of Congress, March 1969; The Mark Taper Forum,Los Angeles, July 1969
A Very Rich Woman	Director	September 1965	Adapted by Ruth Gordon from a play by Philippe Heriat	Notable Cast: Katharine Houghton, Diana Muldaur, Dick Van Patten, Carrie Nye	Belasco Theater, NY
I Was Dancing	Director	November 1964	Edwin O’Connor	Notable Cast: Orson Bean, David Doyle, Barnard Hughes, Pert Kelton, Burgess Meredith	Lyceum Theater, NY
Funny Girl	Director	March 1964	Isobel Lennart, Jules Styne & Bob Merrill	Notable Cast: Barbra Streisand, Sydney Chaplin, Kay Medford, Lainie Kazan	Winter Garden Theater, NY
Come on Strong	Director, Writer	October 1962	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Van Johnson, Carroll Baker	Morosco Theater, NY
A Gift of Time	Director	February 1962	Adapted by Mr Kanin from Death of a Man by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker	Notable Cast: Henry Fonda, Olivia deHavilland, Joseph Campanella, Marian Seldes	Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY
Sunday in New York	Director	November 1961	Norman Krasna	Notable Cast: Robert Redford, Sondra Lee	Cort Theater, NY
The Good Soup	Director	March 1960	Adapted by Mr Kanin from La Bonne Soup by Félicien Marceau	Notable Cast: Ruth Gordon, Jules Munshin, Diane Cilento, Sam Levene	Plymouth Theater, NY
Do Re Mi	Director	December 1960 (NY), 1961 (London)	Garson Kanin	Music & lyrics by Jule Styne, Betty Comden NY cast included Phil Silvers, Nancy Walker, Nancy Dussault	St. James Theater, NY (12/60) London (1961)
Hole in the Head	Director	February 1957	Arnold Schulman	Notable Cast: Paul Douglas, Lee Grant, Joyce Van Patten	Plymouth Theater, NY
Small War on Murray Hill	Director	January, 1957	Robert E. Sherwood	Notable Cast: Daniel Massey, Jan Sterling	Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY
Into Thin Air	Director	May 1955	Chester Erskine		Prince of Wales Theater, London
The Diary of Anne Frank	Director	May 1955 (London), October 1955 (NY)	Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett	Notable Cast: Joseph Schildkraut, Gusti Huber, Susan Strasberg, Lou Jacobi	London (5/55) Cort Theater, NY (10/55)
Fledermaus	Director	December 1950, December 1966	English version by Mr Kanin & Howard Dietz		The Metropolitan Opera
The Amazing Adele	Director	September 1950	Adapted by Mr Kanin from a play by Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Grédy	Notable Cast: Ruth Gordon
The Live Wire	Director, Writer	August 1950	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Heywood Hale Broun, Peggy Cass, Pat Harrington, Jack Gilford	Playhouse Theater, NY
The Rat Race	Director, Writer	December 1949	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Betty Field, Barry Nelson, Ray Walston, Joe Bushkin, Georgie Auld, Pat Harrington	Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY
A Month in the Country	Director	August 1949	Ivan Turgenev		Westport Country Playhouse
The Smile of the World	Director, Writer	January 1949	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis	Lyceum Theater, NY
The Leading Lady	Director	October 1948	Ruth Gordon	Notable Cast: Ruth Gordon, Mildred Dunnock, Ossie Davis	National Theater, NY
How I Wonder	Director	September 1947	Donald Ogden Stewart	Notable Cast: Raymond Massey	Hudson Theater, NY
Years Ago	Director	December 1946	Ruth Gordon	Notable Cast: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Patricia Kirkland	Mansfield Theater, NY
Born Yesterday	Director, Writer	December 1946	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Gary Merrill	Lyceum Theatre, NY
The Rugged Path	Director	November 1945	Robert E. Sherwood	Notable Cast: Spencer Tracy	Plymouth Theater, NY
Too Many Heroes	Director	November 1937	Dore Schary	Notable Cast: James Backus, Shirley Booth	Hudson Theater, NY
Hitch Your Wagon	Director	April 1937	Bernard C. Schoenfeld	Notable Cast: James Backus, Dennie Moore, Mary Wickes, Kenneth Roberts, Keenan Wynn	48th Street Theater, NY

Director – Documentary Films

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Additional Details	Synopsis
The True Glory	Director with Carol Reed	1945	Columbia Pictures Cast: Dwight Eisenhower, Peter Ustinov, Robert Harris (voice over) Academy Award: Best Documentary National Board of Review: Best Film New York Film Critics Circle: Special Award	The Allied invasion of Europe, from planning stages to the fall of Berlin, with extensive actual war footage.
Night Shift	Director	1944	Writer: Mark Blitzstein	Documentary short film opera about women working the night shift at a British armaments factory. (11 minutes)World War II Documentary short
Night Stripes	Director	1944		World War II Documentary short
Battle Stations	Director	1944	Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Cagney	Short film with documentary footage of US Coast Guard during World War II, including SPARS, the Coast Guard’s women’s detachment.
Salute to France	Director with Jean Renoir	1944	United Artists Producer: Office of War Information Cast: Burgess Meredith, Claude Dauphin, Jose Ferrer (narrator) Writers: Philip Dunne, Burgess Meredith, Jean Renoir	Short film with documentary footage of the German occupation of France in World War II.
Ring of Steel	Director	1942	Producer: Office of Emergency Management Cast: Spencer Tracy (narrator) Writer: Robert W. Russell	Documentary short film about American ideals and the individual American soldier’s historical role in preserving them. (10 minutes)
Fellow Americans	Director	1942	Producer: Office of Emergency Management Cast: James Stewart (narrator) Writer: Robert W. Russell Music: Oscar Levant	Documentary short film depicting the impact of the deaths of four United States servicemen in their home towns: a seaman from Grand Rapids, an airman from Tampa, a soldier from New York, and a marine from Port Arthur (Texas). (11 minutes)

Director – Feature Films

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Writer(s)	Additional Details	Company
Where It’s At	Director, Writer	1969	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: David Janssen, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Drivas	UA
Some Kind of a Nut	Director, Writer	1969	Garson Kanin	Notable Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson	UA
Tom, Dick and Harry	Director	1941	Paul Jarrico	Notable Cast: Ginger Rogers, Burgess Meredith, George Murphy Paul Jarrico received an Academy Award nomination	RKO
My Favorite Wife	Director (uncredited as writer)	1940	Sam and Bella Spewack and Leo McCarey	Notable Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick Leo McCarey received an Academy Award nomination Unfinished remake: Something’s Got to Give with Marilyn Monroe and Dean Martin (1962) Remade as Move Over Darling with Doris Day and James Garner (1962)	RKO
They Knew What They Wanted	Director	1940	Robert Ardrey (screenplay), Sidney Howard (play)	Notable Cast: Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, William Gargan William Gargan received an Academy Award nomination Broadway musical version: The Most Happy Fella (1957, 1979 & 1992)	RKO
Bachelor Mother	Director	1939	Felix Jackson (story), Norman Krasna (screenplay)	Notable Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn Writer Felix Jackson received an Academy Award nomination Remade as Bundle of Joy (1956)	RKO
The Great Man Votes	Director	1939	Gordon Malherbe Hillman(story), John Twist (screenplay)	Notable Cast: John Barrymore, Virginia Weidler Remade as Swing Vote (2008)	RKO
The Next Time I Marry	Director	1938	Thames Williamson (Story), John Twist and Helen Meinardi (Screenplay)	Notable Cast: Lucille Ball, James Ellison	RKO
A Man to Remember	Director	1938	Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), Katharine Haviland-Taylor (story)	Notable Cast: Edward Ellis, Anne Shirley Garson Kanin Directorial Debut Remake of One Man’s Journey (1933)	RKO

Screenwriter – Feature Films & Television

 

 

 

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Director	Additional Details
Hardhat & Legs (Television)	Writer	1980	Lee Philips	CBS-TV Co-written with Ruth Gordon
Some Kind of Nut	Writer	1969	Garson Kanin	United Artists Cast: Dick Van Dyke
Where It’s At	Writer	1969	Garson Kanin	United Artists Cast: David Janssen, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Drivas
Mr. Broadway	Creator	1964	Garson Kanin (pilot)	1964 Series Garson Kanin directed pilot
The Rat Race	Writer (from his play)	1960	Richard Mulligan	Paramount Writer: Garson Kanin (from his play), John Michael Hayes (uncredited) Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis
High Time	Writer (from his short story)	1960	Blake Edwards	Twentieth Century Fox Co-written with Frank Waldman and Tom Waldman Cast: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld
The Right Approach	Writer	1960	David Butler	Twentieth Century Fox Based on Garson Kanin’s play The Live Wire Co-written with Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin
The Girl Can’t Help It	Writer (uncredited)	1956	Frank Tashlin	Twentieth Century Fox Based on Garson Kanin’s novella Do Re Mi Co-written with Frank Tashlin and Herbert Baker Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell
Born Yesterday	Writer, Director	1956	Garson Kanin	Hallmark Hall of Fame, NBC Cast: Mary Martin, Paul Douglas
It Should Happen to You	Writer	1954	George Cukor	Columbia Academy Award Nomination – Best Costume Design Cast: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford
Pat and Mike	Writer	1952	George Cukor	MGM Co-written with Ruth Gordon Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray
The Marrying Kind	Writer	1952	George Cukor	Columbia Co-written with Ruth Gordon Cast: Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray
Born Yesterday	Writer (from his play)	1950	George Cukor	Columbia Writer: Garson Kanin (from his play, revised screenplay uncredited), Albert Mannheimer (screenplay) Academy Award Nominations – Best Costume Design, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay
Adam’s Rib	Writer	1949	George Cukor	MGM Co-written with Ruth Gordon Academy Award Nomination – Best Screenplay Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell
A Double Life	Writer	1947	George Cukor	Universal Co-written with Ruth Gordon Academy Award Nomination – Best Director, Best Screenplay
From This Day Forward	Writer (in collaboration)	1946	John Berry	RKO In collaboration with: Hugo Butler (screenplay), Clifford Odets (uncredited), Charles Schnee (uncredited), Edith R. Sommer (uncredited) Based on Thomas Bell’s novel All Brides are Beautiful Cast: John Fontaine, Mark Stevens
The More the Merrier	Writer (in collaboration)	1943	George Stevens	Columbia In collaboration with: Robert Russell (story and screenplay), Frank Ross (story and screenplay), Richard Flournoy (screenplay), Lewis R. Foster (screenplay) Cast: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn (Academy Award – Best Supporting Actor)

 

Novels

Title	Publishing History	Additional Details
Cordelia?	Arbor House, New York – 1982 Zebra (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1983 Severn House Publishers, London — 1983
Smash	Viking Press, New York – 1980 Macmillan Publishers Ltd., London – 1980 Berkley Publishing Corporation (Mass Market Paperback edition) – 1982
Moviola	Simon & Schuster, New York – 1979 Miniseries, NBC – 1980 Article: TV Guide — May 23-30, 1980 MacMillan, London – 1980 Rizzoli Editore, Milan, Italy – 1980 Brugera, Barcelona, Spain – 1980 Moewig, Germany – 1980 Luitingh, Holland – 1980 Altin Kitaplar, Turkey – 1980 Pocket Books (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1980 Pan Books, Ltd. (Paperback edition), London – 1980 Rizzoli Editore (Paperback edition) Milan, Italy – 1980 Brugera (Paperback edition), Barcelona, Spain – 1980 Moewig (Paperback edition), Germany – 1980 Luitingh (Paperback edition), Holland – 1980 Altin Kitaplar (Paperback edition), Turkey – 1980 Suomen Kuvapalvelu Oy, Finland – 1980 The Book Club (Foyles) London – 1981 Editora Record (Paperback edition) – 1981
One Hell of an Actor	Harper & Row, New York – 1977 Barrie & Jenkins, Ltd. – 1978 Dell (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1977
A Thousand Summers	Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York – 1973 (Bestseller on most national lists) Literary Guild Selection – 1974 Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club: United States, Holland, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Australia, Sweden, Italy – 1974-76 Rupert Hart-Davis & MacGibbon, Ltd., London – 1973 Les Presses de la Cite, Paris, France – 1973 Unieboek B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 1974 Rizzoli Editore, Milan, Italy – 1975 B. Wahlstroms Bokforlag AB, Stockholm, Sweden – 1974 Mikasa Shobo Ltd., Tokyo, Japan – 1975 Plaza y Janes, S.A. Barcelona, Spain – 1976 G.K. Hall & Company (Large Print Edition), Boston – 1974 Coronet Magazine (Condensation) – March 1973 Bantam Books, Inc. (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1974 Panther Books, Ltd. (Paperback edition), London – 1976 Rizzoli Editore (Paperback edition), Milan, Italy – 1976
Where It’s At	New American Library (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1969	Novelization of Mr. Kanin’s Screenplay
Cast of Characters	Atheneum, New York – 1969	Collected Short Stories
The Rat Race	Pocket Books, Inc. (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1960 Harborough Publishing Co., Ltd.(Paperback edition), London – 1960 Angencia Portuguese de Revistas, Portugal – 1960	Agencia Novelization of Mr. Kanin’s screenplay
Blow up a Storm	Random House, New York – 1959 Excerpt: Diners’ Club Magazine – 1959 Heinemann Ltd., London – 1960 Pocket Books, Inc. (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1960 Panther Books (Paperback edition), London – 1961 Juilliard, Paris – 1962 (Jazz en Tempete) Wangels Forlag A/S, Copenhagen, Norway – 1963 (Jazz Skaebner)

 

Non-Fiction

Title	Publishing History	Additional Details
Together Again! Hollywood’s Great Movie Teams	Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York – 1981 Angus and Robertson Publishers, London – 1982
It Takes A Long Time to Become Young	Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York – 1978 G.K. Hall & Company (Large Print edition), Boston – 1978 Excerpt: in Flighttime – 1978 Berkley Books (Mass Market Paperback edition) – 1979
Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols	Viking Press, New York – 1974 Literary Guild Selection – 1974 Les Presses de la Cite, France – 1975 Excerpts: in Cosmopolitan, New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune – 1975 Hart-Davis & MacGibbon, London – 1975 Bantam Books (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1974 Excerpt: Book Digest Magazine – 1975 Panther (Paperback edition), London – 1977 Novo Tempo, Brazil Proscenium Books (Trade Paperback edition), New York – 1984
Tracy & Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir	Viking Press, New York – 1971 (Number one bestseller, The New York Times) Literary Guild Alternate – 1971 Angus & Robertson,, Ltd., London – 1972 Bantam Books (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1972 Serialization: in the American Tribune-Daily News Syndicate – 1971 Serialization: in the Daily Mail, London – 1971 Excerpts: in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Woman’s Day, Reader’s Digest Zalozba Obzorja Maribar, Yugoslavia – 1973 Les Presses de la Cite, France – 1974 Solar (paperback), France – 1974 Zalozba Obzorja, Slovenia – 1980 Longanesi, Italy – 1982 S. Fischer Verlag, Germany – 1988 Reprint: Donald I. Fine, Inc. (Trade Paper edition) – 1988	A memoir of Mr Kanin’s friendship with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
Remembering Mr. Maugham	Atheneum, New York – 1969 (Introduction by Nöel Coward) Excerpt: Vogue – August 1966 Excerpt: Playbill – September 1966 Excerpt: The New York Times – September 1966 Hamish-Hamilton, Ltd., London – 1966 Fugambo, Tokyo, Japan – 1967 Dramatic Reading: at The Players, New York City – 1967 (Dennis King and Garson Kanin) Dramatic Reading: at The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. – 1969 (Dennis King and Garson Kanin) Stage Adaptation: The Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles – 1969 Bantam Books (Mass Market Paperback edition), New York – 1973 Friends of the Libraries: University of Southern California – a Conversation with Ruth Gordon, Clare Booth Luce, George Cukor, Garson Kanin, Aerol Arnold Excerpt: South of France, Cadogan Books – September 1985	A memoir of Mr Kanin’s friendship with W. Somerset Maugham

 

Short Fiction

 

Title	Publishing History	Additional Details
Another Woman	The Saturday Evening Post – November 1976
Say No More	Cosmopolitan – October 1976 Bisho (Japan) – 1977 Alle Kvinner (Norway) – 1977
One of Those NIghts	Penthouse – July 1972
What They Call ‘Skin Hunger’	Penthouse – December 1970
He Wished Her Dead and Wished Her Dead Until One Day He Died	Penthouse – September 1970 Lui (France) – 1972 Alt for Damerne (Denmark) – February 1972 (–Til Sidste Drabe –)
A Horse of A Different Color	Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969 (From a TV script, for Garson Kanin’s Mr Broadway series, December – 1964)
Something to Sing About	Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969 (From a TV script, Episode 12, for Garson Kanin’s Mr Broadway series, December – 1964)
The Grand Illumination	Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969 Reprinted: in Short Story International – 1982
The He-She Chemistry	Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969 (From a TV script, Episode 6, for Garson Kanin’s Mr Broadway series, October – 1964)
Girl Overboard	Cosmopolitan – January 1969
The Only Game in Town	Playboy – December 1966 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
None But the Brave (Medal of Honor)	Playboy – December 1962 Alt for Maend (Denmark) – June 1965
Out of Character (Cavalier Collar)	The Saturday Evening Post – October 1962 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
The Lady’s Maid	Cavalier – October 1962 Tidens Kvinder (Denmark) – 1962 Argosy (England) – 1962 Brigitte (Germany) – March 1965 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
By Appointment Only	Cosmopolitan – September 1962 Alt for Damerne (Denmark, Norway) – 1962
Sign That Boy!	McCall’s – January 1962 Grazia (Italy) – 1962 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
Proposition	Playboy – January 1962 Kuva Posti (Finland) – 1962 Reprinted in Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader, Playboy Press – 1965 Reprinted in Playboy’s Short-Shorts, Playboy Press – 1970
Buddy Buddy	Playboy – September 1966 Alt for Maend (Denmark) – 1966 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
The Money Man	McCall’s – April 1965 Dansk Familieblad (Denmark) – 1965 Grazia (Italy) – August 1965
There Goes My Other Phone	Gentlemen’s Quarterly – February 1964 Alt for Maend (Denmark) – August 1964 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
Don’t Forget	The Ladies’ Home Journal – September 1963 Tidens Kvinder (Denmark) – May 1964 Kvinner & Klaer (Norway) – October 1964 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
Define the Word ‘Wife’	Cavalier – March 1963 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
An Echo of Love	The Saturday Evening Post – February 1963 Brigitte (Germany) – September 1963 Tidens Kvinder (Demark) – December 1963 Arianna (Italy) – March 1964 Norsk Dameblad (Norway) – April 1965 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969 Reprinted: in Great Love Stories From The Saturday Evening Post, The Curtis Publishing Co. – 1976
Who to Who	McCall’s – January 1961 Tidens Kvinder (Denmark) – 1961 Marie-Claire (France) – 1961 (Le Pari De Leda Dumont) Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969 Mondadori (Italy) – December 1973
Something for Suzie	Esquire – January 1959 Tidens Kvinder (Denmark) – 1959
We’re Running A Little Late	Playboy – December 1958 Reprinted: in The Bedside Playboy, Playboy Press -1963
Faint Heart Etcetera	Good Housekeeping – November 1958 Setimo Ceu (Brazil) – 1959 Sopena (Argentina) – 1959 Grazia (Italy) – 1959
The Brahms Kick	Cosmopolitan – August 1958 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
The Dog Act	Vogue – April 1958 Magasinet (Denmark) – 1958 Paris-Match (France) – July 1961 (Nom D’un Chien) Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
The Right-Hand Man	Good Housekeeping – November 1957 Televised: on Playhouse 90, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, with Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter, Stuart Erwin, Ruta Lee, Leslie Nielsen, CBS – March 1958 (Season 2, Episode 28)
Flowers of Friendship	Esquire – August 1956 Berlingske Aftenavis (Denmark) – 1957 Reprinted: in Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
The Damndest Thing	Esquire – February 1956 Magasinet (Denmark) – 1956 Reprinted: Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – 1956 Reprinted: Second Science Fiction Anthology, Dell – 1957 Kuva Posti (Finland) – 1958 Televised: Six People, No Music, on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, directed by Norman Lloyd, with John McGiver, Peggy Cass, CBS –January 1959 (Season 4, Episode 13) Reprinted: in Happy Endings, Bobbs-Merrill – November 1973
All Through The House	Esquire – December 1955 Adam (France) – December 1962 (Jamais De La Nuit Noel) Reprinted: Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
Do Re MI	Atlantic Monthly – March 1955 Hard Cover Edition: Little, Brown & Co. – 1955 (Illustration by Al Hirschfeld) Film: The Girl Can’t Help It , directed by Frank Tashlin, with Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, Edmond O’Brien, Twentieth Century Fox – 1956 Stage: Broadway Musical, book by Mr Kanin, music by Jules Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, directed by Mr Kanin, produced by David Merrick, with Phil Silvers, Nancy Walker, Nancy Dussault – St James Theater – December 1960 Reprinted: In Cast of Characters, Atheneum – 1969
A Day at a Time	Good Housekeeping – February 1955 Film rights sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer – 1955
Cabbie	Unpublished
The Hickey	Unpublished
The Wear and Tear of Back and Forth	Unpublished
Ice	Unpublished
A Real Man	Unpublished

 

Plays Published

Title	Publishing History	Additional Details
Living on Love by Joe DiPietro based on Peccadillo	Dramatists Play Service – 2016
Peccadillo	Samuel French, Inc. – 1990
Dreyfus In Rehearsal	Dramatists Play Service – 1983 Revision, Dramatists Play Service – 2008
Speak The Speech	Dramatists Guild Quarterly – Summer 1980
Come on Strong	Dramatists Play Service – 1964
A Gift of Time	Samuel French, Inc. – 1962 Random House – 1962
The Live Wire	Dramatists Play Service – 1951
The Rat Race	Dramatists Play Service – 1950
The Smile of the World	Dramatists Play Service – 1949
Born Yesterday	Dramatists Play Service – 1946 Viking Press – 1946 Reprinted in: Comedy Tonight! Doubleday – 1977 The Fireside Theatre – 1989

 

Short Non-Fiction

Title	Publishing History	Additional Details
On Born Yesterday	Dramatists Guild Newsletter – March 1998	(From remarks by Garson Kanin , Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982)
Remembering George Abbott	The New York Times, Arts & Leisure – February 12, 1995
Marlene Dietrich	Vanity Fair – November 1992
Turtle Bay	Architectural Digest – April 1992
Katharine Hepburn	The Kennedy Center Honors Program – December 1990
How I Got To Carnegie Hall	Supplement to The New York TImes – September 16, 1990
The Garden of Allah	Architectural Digest – April 1990
Adam’s Rib: The Genesis	Memories Magazine – October/November 1989
Ruth and Thornton and ‘Our Town’	The New York Times – January 9, 1989
A Slice of Lemmon	American Film Institute Tribute to Jack Lemmon (Souvenir Book) – March 10, 1988
John Henry Hammond: Centurion, Friend	Century Assocation Yearbook – 1988
Mr. Abbott (George Abbott’s 100th Birthday)	Souvenir Program – May 1987	Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland, Ohio
George Abbott	Playbill (Tony Award Edition) – 1987
George Abbott – A Born Dancer’s Abbott Touch	Variety – June 24, 1987
Introduction to the reprint of My Side by Ruth Gordon	Donald I. Fine, Inc. – 1986
Review of Chaplin: His LIfe and Art by David Robinson	The New York Times Book Review – November 10, 1985
Review of Queenie by Michael Korda	Harper’s Bazaar – May 1965
Introduction to Dark Star	St. Martin’s Press – 1985	Biography of John Gilbert by Leatrice Gilbert Fountain with John R. Maxim
A Pink Hotel (The Beverly Hills Hotel)	The New York Times Magazine – October 7, 1984
Introduction to the reprint of I Can Get It For You Wholesale by Jerome Weidman	Arbor House – 1984
The Cort and I	Playbill – April 1984
George Cukor’s Loving Marriage to the Movies	The New York Times – February 6, 1983
George Abbott	The Kennedy Center Honors Program – December 1982
Neil Simon	Dramatics Magazine – September 1982
Theatre and Show Business	Tony Awards Supplement to The New York Times – May 1982
Sam Levene	Eulogy
L. Arnold Weissberger	Eulogy
Boris Aronson	Eulogy
Preface to A Knight at the Opera by Sir Rudolf Bing	G.P. Putnam’s Sons – 1981
Rene Clair	The New York Times – March 29, 1981
Marc Connelly	Eulogy Yale Drama School Bulletin – May 1981 Playbill – May 1981 Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook – October 1981
An Ageless Garbo Celebrates her 75th	The Daily News Tonight – September 17, 1980 The Daily News – September 18, 1980
Mission Impossible: Find Another Garbo	TV Guide – May 17, 1980	The making of Moviola
Hollywood Roller Coaster	American FIlm – April 1980	Review of Dore Schary’s book Heyday
To The Measure of Man	Anchor Press – 1980	For Peter Simon’s On The Vineyard
What I Think of Aging	Modern Maturity – June/July 1979
To Rest is to Rust (Maggie Kuhn)	Quest/79 – June 1979
Anne Frank at 50	Newsweek – June 1979
Ad Lib	The Friars Club Journal – May 6, 1979	Johnny Carson Testimonial
Rosalind Russell	Eulogy
Ruth Gordon: Late Bloomer	Close-Ups, edited by Danny Peary, Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
The People vs. Eric Sevareid	The Daily News – January 25, 1978
Trouble on West 46th St (A plea to save the High School of Performing Arts)	Variety – December 10, 1976
Garson Kanin Statement at the request of Clive Barnes (in support of the High School of Performing Arts)	The New York Times – August 29, 1976
West Out West (Nathaniel West)	American Film – March 1976
I Remember It Well (More or Less)	Literary Guild Magazine – May 1974	Book tour for A Thousand Summers
Haiku	Vineyard Gazette – February 23, 1973
Hail Kubelsky! Bravo Birnbaum! (Jack Benny & George Burns)	The Friars Club Journal – May 1972
Telling What He Knows of ‘That Place’	Los Angeles Times Book Review – February 27, 1972	Review of Bob Thomas’s Weekend ’33
One Plus One is 102 (Tracy and Hepburn)	Los Angeles Herald-Examiner – January 16, 1972 Syndication throughout the United States On Stage: San Francisco – April 1972
A Thornton Wilder Protégé by the Skin of His Teeth	Los Angeles Times – December 26, 1971 (syndication throughout the United States)
Glenda Farrell 1904-1971	The New York Times – May 16, 1971
Mia Farrow Comes to Rest	McCall’s – April 1971
A Tall Tall Man (Robert E. Sherwood)	Performing Arts – March/April 1970
The Private Kate (Katharine Hepburn)	McCall’s – February 1970
Feelings in the Presence of Literary Genius (W. Somerset Maugham)	Los Angeles Herald-Examiner – July 13, 1969
My Next Trick is Great	The Taper Forum – Summer 1969	Remembering Mr. Maugham on stage
William Goetz Tribute	August 1969
‘Chemin’ A Classic Farce By The Master Farceur (Georges Feydeau)	Los Angeles Times – June 1, 1946
Who is Alan Jay? What is He?	The American Academy of Dramatic Arts Silver Anniversary Tribute to Alan Jay Lerner – Sunday, February 9, 1969
Hollywood: As Was And As Is	The Hollywood Reporter 37th Anniversary Annual – 1967
Tracy: He Did His Job Before He Died (Spencer Tracy)	The New York Times -Sunday, June 25, 1967
Ginger: She Wanted to Be a Moooooovie Star (Ginger Rogers)	The New York Times -Sunday, January 29, 1967
I Have Known Ruth Gordon for Something Less Than A Hundred Years	The New York Times -Sunday, October 17, 1965
The 49th Street Parallel	The Turtle Bay Gazette – Fall 1965
Judy Holliday: 1922-1965	The New York Times -Sunday, June 13, 1965
FF Toward the End (Felix Frankfurter)	Virgina Law Review, Vol. 51:557 -1965
Trips to Felix (Felix Frankfurter)	Atlantic – March 1964 Reader Digest (Condensation) – June 1964 Reprinted in: Felix Frankfurter: A Tribute (Reynal & Company -1964)
Emlyn Williams	Book of the Month Club News – April 1962 Reprinted: The Book of the Month, edited by Al Silverman (Little, Brown – 1986)
Garson Kanin on Playwriting	Diner’s Club Magazine – Christmas 1962
Spend More TIme Away From the Mirror	Americada – Spring Issue 1959
Parade Standing Still	Saturday Review – December 22, 1951	Review of Show Biz from Vaude to Video by Abel Green & Joe Laurie, Jr.
The Bomb and the Parker 51	Theatre Arts – October 1948
Preface to ‘Foreign Dialects’ by Lewis & Marguerite Shalett Herman	Theatre Arts Books, New York – 1943
I Direct	Theatre Arts – September 1941
Letter to a Bewildered Young Man	The Hollywood Reporter – December 1940 Reprinted: Hello, Hollywood by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr (Doubleday – 1962)
Thanks, Mr. Greeley	The Hollywood Reporter – 1940