Books, Novels, and Short WritingGarson Kanin Estate2022-10-14T15:14:13+00:00

Books & Short Writing Credits

Writing: Novels, Nonfiction, Short Fiction, Short Nonfiction, Plays Published

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	Optioned by Amblin/ Showtime – 2010cast
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	Novelization of Mr. Kanin’s screenplay Agencia
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 Noel 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 Jule 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
Peccadillo	Samuel French, Inc. – 1990
Dreyfus In Rehearsal	Dramatists Play Service – 1983 Revision, Dramatists Play Service – 1990
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 Protege 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)
Garon Kanin on Playwrighting	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

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❤️❤️❤️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. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1932 to 1933. He briefly worked as an actor on Broadway following his studies but then worked as an assistant to the Broadway director George Abbot. In 1937, he joined Samuel Goldwyn’s staff but left after a year because he had not been given any directing assignments. He was signed by RKO and there directed such films as "The Great Man Votes" (1939) and "Tom, Dick and Harry" (1941), but he soon became frustrated by the lack of control he had over his films under the studio system. When he was drafted during World War II, he made documentary films for the War Information and Emergency Manpower offices. One of them, co-directed by Carol Reed, "The True Glory" (1945), won an Academy Award for Best Documentary.During the war years, Kanin began writing stories and plays as well. After the war, he directed his play "Born Yesterday" on Broadway, which he later adapted for the screen.It is inevitable that the writer be subservient to the director. In the early days of Hollywood, films were made by a small team that included only a director and a man with a camera. As filmmaking became more complex and sophisticated, people were hired to write scripts, but never were they considered other than hired talent. It was not unusual to hear directors refer to a screenwriter as ‘my writer.’ This tradition exists to this day. I know of no writer who as a writer has gotten into the driver’s seat during the shooting of a film although many fine writers have subsequently gone into directing."Kanin and his wife, Ruth Gordon (below), collaborated on four screenplays, including "Adam’s Rib" (1949) and "Pat and Mike" (1952). They stopped working on scripts together for the sake of their marriage after 1952, but in 1979 they co-wrote one more, the TV film "Hardhat and Legs." Kanin and Gordon were never under contract by any studio as writers. They wrote the scripts on their own and sold them to interested Hollywood studios.Kanin wrote a book about his friendship with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn ("Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir"). Hepburn saw this as a deep betrayal, and didn’t speak with Kanin for many years. (IMDb)Happy Birthday, Garson Kanin!
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Ruth and her pal, Elsa Lanchester, in a radio broadcast from 83 years ago tomorrow, August 31st:www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/drama/columbia-workshop/columbia-workshop-41-08-31-017-mary-and-the…
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💜💜💜“She’s a lovely dame, and I use that term with respect. I like dames—they’re regal and tough and real. I never believed that a play of mine had opened or happened until I saw her lovely black hair and alabaster face at my dressing-room door. At that point it was official! Her generosity is remarkable. Do you remember Olive Deering? That poor actress who was Alfred Ryder’s sister? Well, Olive fell on hard times and pretty much took up residence on them, and she never had any money. I gave her money; everybody gave her money. Well, I went to see Marian in something and when we walked out of the stage door, there was Olive, looking pathetic and wan, and Marian reached into her purse and handed her an envelope, with Olive’s name written in that tiny handwriting of hers. I asked about it at dinner. ‘Oh, darling,’ Marian said. ‘I’m so lucky to be working and being paid well, and Olive needs it.’ Olive Deering came to that stage door every week on payday and got her envelope. For years! That took my breath away. And Olive Deering was not the only one.”—Kim Hunter on Marian SeldesHappy Birthday, Marian Seldes.
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