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Stage Credits

Acting: Stage
Directing & Writing: Stage

Actor – Stage

Title	Garson Kanin Credit	Date(s)	Additional Details
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

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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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The anniversary of Ruth Gordon’s passing.
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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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