Garson Kanin

Garson Kanin (1912, New York-1999, New York) worked as a jazz musician, actor, screenwriter, stage and film director, dramatist, producer and literary author, with a career spanning the end of the 1930s to the beginning of the 1980s. As a co-writer, he received greatest acclaim, together with his wife, the actress Ruth Gordon, for the screenplay for the social comedy Adam's Rib (1949); on his own he is best known for the play and later the screenplay of the same name for the film comedy Born Yesterday (1956).

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