Biography (1)
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… (more)
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A Man to Remember (1938)
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Screenwriter
| Movies | |
|---|---|
| 1993 |
Born Yesterday - theater play |
| 1980 |
Hardhat and Legs (TV movie) |
| 1977 |
Nicht von gestern (TV movie) - original screenplay |
| 1969 |
Some Kind of a Nut |
Where It's at |
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| 1966 |
Walk Don't Run |
| 1965 |
Dünkü Çocuk - theater play |
| 1961 |
The Right Approach - theater play |
| 1960 |
The Rat Race - screenplay, theater play |
| 1954 |
It Should Happen to You |
| 1952 |
Pat and Mike |
The Marrying Kind |
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| 1950 |
Born Yesterday - theater play |
| 1949 |
Adam's Rib |
| 1947 |
A Double Life |
| 1943 |
A Lady Takes a Chance |
| 1940 |
My Favorite Wife |
| 1939 |
Bachelor Mother |
The Great Man Votes |
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| 1973 |
Adam's Rib |
| 1964 |
Mr. Broadway |
| 1956 |
Playhouse 90 |
| 1955 |
The Alcoa Hour - original screenplay |
Author
| Movies | |
|---|---|
| 1980 |
Silent Lovers, The (TV movie) - book |
The Scarlett O'Hara War (TV movie) - book |
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This Year's Blonde (TV movie) - book |
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| 1956 |
The Girl Can't Help It - book |
| Series | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2013 |
Smash - book |
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The Tonys - book (S02E17) |
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The Nominations - book (S02E16) |
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The Transfer - book (S02E15) |
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| more episodes (14) | ||
| 2012 |
Smash - book |
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Bombshell - book (S01E15) |
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Previews - book (S01E14) |
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Tech - book (S01E13) |
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| more episodes (12) | ||
| 1955 |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - book |
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Director
| Movies | |
|---|---|
| 1969 |
Some Kind of a Nut |
Where It's at |
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| 1944 |
Night Stripes |
| 1941 |
Tom Dick and Harry |
| 1940 |
My Favorite Wife |
They Knew What They Wanted |
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| 1939 |
Bachelor Mother |
The Great Man Votes |
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| 1938 |
A Man to Remember |
Next Time I Marry |
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| Series | |
|---|---|
| 1964 |
Mr. Broadway |
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 1945 |
The True Glory |
| 1942 |
Fellow Americans |
Night Shift |
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Ring of Steel |
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| Short | |
|---|---|
| 1944 |
Salute to France |
Actor
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 1996 |
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman (TV movie) |
| 1990 |
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett & Beyond (TV movie) |
| 1988 |
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man (TV movie) |
| 1987 |
Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story (series) |
Guest
| Shows | |
|---|---|
| 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes |
| 1969 |
The David Frost Show |
| 1967 |
The Bob Braun Show |