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 | |
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Remembering Mr. Maugham | “Garson” | November 1966, April 1967, March & July 1969 |
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Star Spangled | “Vincent Chenevski” | March 1936 |
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Boy Meets Girl | “Green” | November 1935 |
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The Body Beautiful | “Izzy Cohen” | October 1935 |
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Three Men on a Horse | “Al” | January 1935 |
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Ladies’ Money | “Red” | November 1934 |
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Spring Song | “A Young Man” | October 1934 |
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Director & Playwright – Stage
Title | Garson Kanin Credit | Date(s) | Writer(s) | Additional Details | Location |
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Happy Ending | Director, Writer | November 1988 | Garson Kanin |
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Bristol Riverside Theatre, Bristol PA |
Peccadillo | Director, Writer | February 1985 | Garson Kanin |
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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 |
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Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY |
Idiot’s Delight | Director | March 1970 | Robert E. Sherwood |
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Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Director | October 1966 | Adapted by Hugh Wheeler from a novel by Shirley Jackson |
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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 |
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A Very Rich Woman | Director | September 1965 | Adapted by Ruth Gordon from a play by Philippe Heriat |
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Belasco Theater, NY |
I Was Dancing | Director | November 1964 | Edwin O’Connor |
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Lyceum Theater, NY |
Funny Girl | Director | March 1964 | Isobel Lennart, Jules Styne & Bob Merrill |
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Winter Garden Theater, NY |
Come on Strong | Director, Writer | October 1962 | Garson Kanin |
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Morosco Theater, NY |
A Gift of Time | Director | February 1962 | Adapted by Mr Kanin from Death of a Man by Lael Tucker Wertenbaker |
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Ethel Barrymore Theater, NY |
Sunday in New York | Director | November 1961 | Norman Krasna |
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Cort Theater, NY |
The Good Soup | Director | March 1960 | Adapted by Mr Kanin from La Bonne Soup by Félicien Marceau |
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Plymouth Theater, NY |
Do Re Mi | Director | December 1960 (NY), 1961 (London) | Garson Kanin |
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Hole in the Head | Director | February 1957 | Arnold Schulman |
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Plymouth Theater, NY |
Small War on Murray Hill | Director | January, 1957 | Robert E. Sherwood |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Live Wire | Director, Writer | August 1950 | Garson Kanin |
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Playhouse Theater, NY |
The Rat Race | Director, Writer | December 1949 | Garson Kanin |
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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 |
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Lyceum Theater, NY |
The Leading Lady | Director | October 1948 | Ruth Gordon |
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National Theater, NY |
How I Wonder | Director | September 1947 | Donald Ogden Stewart |
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Hudson Theater, NY |
Years Ago | Director | December 1946 | Ruth Gordon |
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Mansfield Theater, NY |
Born Yesterday | Director, Writer | December 1946 | Garson Kanin |
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Lyceum Theatre, NY |
The Rugged Path | Director | November 1945 | Robert E. Sherwood |
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Plymouth Theater, NY |
Too Many Heroes | Director | November 1937 | Dore Schary |
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Hudson Theater, NY |
Hitch Your Wagon | Director | April 1937 | Bernard C. Schoenfeld |
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48th Street Theater, NY |
Director – Documentary Films
Title | Garson Kanin Credit | Date(s) | Additional Details | Synopsis |
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The True Glory | Director with Carol Reed | 1945 |
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The Allied invasion of Europe, from planning stages to the fall of Berlin, with extensive actual war footage. |
Night Shift | Director | 1944 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Short film with documentary footage of the German occupation of France in World War II. |
Ring of Steel | Director | 1942 |
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Documentary short film about American ideals and the individual American soldier’s historical role in preserving them. (10 minutes) |
Fellow Americans | Director | 1942 |
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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 |
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Where It’s At | Director, Writer | 1969 | Garson Kanin |
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Some Kind of a Nut | Director, Writer | 1969 | Garson Kanin |
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Tom, Dick and Harry | Director | 1941 | Paul Jarrico |
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RKO |
My Favorite Wife | Director (uncredited as writer) | 1940 | Sam and Bella Spewack and Leo McCarey |
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They Knew What They Wanted | Director | 1940 | Robert Ardrey (screenplay), Sidney Howard (play) |
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Bachelor Mother | Director | 1939 | Felix Jackson (story), Norman Krasna (screenplay) |
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The Great Man Votes | Director | 1939 | Gordon Malherbe Hillman(story), John Twist (screenplay) |
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The Next Time I Marry | Director | 1938 | Thames Williamson (Story), John Twist and Helen Meinardi (Screenplay) |
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A Man to Remember | Director | 1938 | Dalton Trumbo (screenplay), Katharine Haviland-Taylor (story) |
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Screenwriter – Feature Films & Television
Title | Garson Kanin Credit | Date(s) | Director | Additional Details | |
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Hardhat & Legs (Television) | Writer | 1980 | Lee Philips |
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Some Kind of Nut | Writer | 1969 | Garson Kanin |
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Where It’s At | Writer | 1969 | Garson Kanin |
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Mr. Broadway | Creator | 1964 | Garson Kanin (pilot) |
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The Rat Race | Writer (from his play) | 1960 | Richard Mulligan |
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High Time | Writer (from his short story) | 1960 | Blake Edwards |
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The Right Approach | Writer | 1960 | David Butler |
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The Girl Can’t Help It | Writer (uncredited) | 1956 | Frank Tashlin |
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Born Yesterday | Writer, Director | 1956 | Garson Kanin |
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It Should Happen to You | Writer | 1954 | George Cukor |
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Pat and Mike | Writer | 1952 | George Cukor |
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The Marrying Kind | Writer | 1952 | George Cukor |
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Born Yesterday | Writer (from his play) | 1950 | George Cukor |
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Adam’s Rib | Writer | 1949 | George Cukor |
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A Double Life | Writer | 1947 | George Cukor |
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From This Day Forward | Writer (in collaboration) | 1946 | John Berry |
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The More the Merrier | Writer (in collaboration) | 1943 | George Stevens |
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Novels
Title | Publishing History | Additional Details |
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Cordelia? |
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Smash |
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Moviola |
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One Hell of an Actor |
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A Thousand Summers |
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Where It’s At |
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Novelization of Mr. Kanin’s Screenplay |
Cast of Characters |
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The Rat Race |
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Blow up a Storm |
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Non-Fiction
Title | Publishing History | Additional Details |
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Together Again! Hollywood’s Great Movie Teams |
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It Takes A Long Time to Become Young |
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Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols |
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Tracy & Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir |
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A memoir of Mr Kanin’s friendship with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn |
Remembering Mr. Maugham |
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A memoir of Mr Kanin’s friendship with W. Somerset Maugham |
Short Fiction
Title | Publishing History | Additional Details |
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Another Woman |
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Say No More |
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One of Those NIghts |
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What They Call ‘Skin Hunger’ |
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He Wished Her Dead and Wished Her Dead Until One Day He Died |
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A Horse of A Different Color |
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Something to Sing About |
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The Grand Illumination |
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The He-She Chemistry |
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Girl Overboard |
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The Only Game in Town |
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None But the Brave (Medal of Honor) |
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Out of Character (Cavalier Collar) |
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The Lady’s Maid |
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By Appointment Only |
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Sign That Boy! |
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Proposition |
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Buddy Buddy |
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The Money Man |
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There Goes My Other Phone |
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Don’t Forget |
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Define the Word ‘Wife’ |
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An Echo of Love |
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Who to Who |
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Something for Suzie |
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We’re Running A Little Late |
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Faint Heart Etcetera |
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The Brahms Kick |
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The Dog Act |
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The Right-Hand Man |
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Flowers of Friendship |
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The Damndest Thing |
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All Through The House |
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Do Re MI |
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A Day at a Time |
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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 |
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Living on Love by Joe DiPietro based on Peccadillo |
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Peccadillo | Samuel French, Inc. – 1990 | |
Dreyfus In Rehearsal |
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Speak The Speech | Dramatists Guild Quarterly – Summer 1980 | |
Come on Strong | Dramatists Play Service – 1964 | |
A Gift of Time |
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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 |
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Short Non-Fiction
Title | Publishing History | Additional Details |
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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 |
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An Ageless Garbo Celebrates her 75th |
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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) |
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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) |
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Emlyn Williams |
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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 |
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Thanks, Mr. Greeley | The Hollywood Reporter – 1940 | |