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Links & Resources

#	Web Link
1	Internet Movie Database (IMDb)- Garson Kanin
2	Wikipedia – Garson Kanin
3	Internet Broadway Database (IBDb) – Garson Kanin
4	From the Studs Terkel Radio Archive – Four Interviews with Garson Kanin
6	Roy Leonard’s 1981 Interview with Garson Kanin
7	The True Story of ‘The True Glory’

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Remembering Mr. Kanin

5 days ago

It’s the birthday of handsome star Peter Lawford, Rat Packer and brother-in-law of JFK. Lawford costarred in Garson Kanin’s It Should Happen to You, opposite Judy Holliday. According to IMDb: “This story was conceived when Garson Kanin, trying to cheer up his wife Ruth Gordon, was driving by Columbus Circle. He told her he was going to put her name on "that billboard there" in the biggest letters. He didn’t. He wrote a screenplay instead. Gordon suggested that the lead should be Judy Holliday. Kanin had originally considered a male lead, Danny Kaye. When he finished the screenplay, the lead had been written for Holliday.” Lawford and Holliday reportedly were an item on-and off-screen.
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Remembering Mr. Kanin

2 weeks ago

"The stuff that’s important to know, I think, you learn from inside yourself…Thornton Wilder frequently said…’Writing is a coy game you play with your subconscious.’…That’s what’s so exciting about writing — discovery. Minute to minute, hour to hour, you really don’t know what’s going to come out of your unconscious, out of millions, perhaps billions of sights, sounds, impressions that have formed themselves on your data computer, on your memory, that suddenly click. So not only is writing interesting as discovery, it makes living so much more interesting."—GK, quoted in the Martha’s Vineyard Gazette (Pictured here with his writing partner and wife, Ruth Gordon)
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