Film and TelevisionGarson Kanin Estate2022-07-05T06:40:17+00:00

Film & Television Credits

Acting: Television
Directing & Writing: Documentary, Feature Film
Screenwriting: Film and Television

Actor – Television

In addition to personal appearances on talk shows and in documentaries, Mr. Kanin appeared in single episodes in the following series:

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Additional Details	Location
H.E.L.P.	Actor	1990
Tattinger’s	Actor	1988

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)

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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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