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Kanin, Garson was born on November 24, 1912 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of David and Sadie (Levine) Kanin.
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A comical "expose of the jukebox gangland world" by the legendary stage and film director and author of classics such as Born Yesterday and the Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn movies Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike. The book is illustrated by Al Hirschfeld in his iconic style, with 30 two color illustrations.
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Characters: 4 male, 2 female 2 Interiors Maestro Vito De Angelis, an egomaniacal but charming conductor, is under contract to a major publisher to deliver his autobiography. The publisher has paid a huge advance and Vito has just fired his fifth ghost writer. The publisher sends pretty Iris Peabody, knowing that Vito is a sucker for the ladies, to gain his cooperation as she ghost writes the book. The stratagem works, a fact that distresses Mrs. Vito, former opera star Rachel Garland. She hires a handsome young ghost writer to write her autobiography: Mrs. Maestro. Christopher Plummer, Glynis Johns and Kelly McGillis starred in this light hearted romp by the author of Born Yesterday. "Those who adore well constructed comedy will go berserk." - Buffalo News "Vibrant." - Miami Herald
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Born Yesterday Author: Kanin, Garson Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Publication Date: 1951/01/01 Number of Pages: 89 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: BL2001003949
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This classic Hollywood memoir is again available, now with a new foreword by the author. Spence Tracy and Kate Hepburn were the couple everyone knew of but no one really knew anything about. What kept these two opposites together makes for an interesting read.
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The following pages contain a record of friendship set down in the random way it was lived. I want to share my vision of Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, individually and as a team. Both valuable, useful human beings. Spencer had a great deal to give, and Kate is the pre-eminent women of her time. I have no doubt that each of them will one day be the subject of a comprehensive biography. This is not it. I know her and knew him far too well to attempt such a thing. This is the story of them...together.
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In Moviola, Garson Kanin has written the ultimate Hollywood novel, encompassing the whole dazzling story of the movie business, from its beginnings with the invention of the nickelodeon to today, with a glittering cast of characters that includes D.W. Griffith, Thomas Edison, Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Greta Garbo, and John Gilbert, LouisB. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn Monroe, David O Selznick and almost every famous name and star in Hollywood history. Farber has seen it all, and tells it all, including the story of his own life, his marriages, his children, and the upward climb to the top as the owner of one of Hollywood's biggest studios, a position which he may just possibly relinquish--but also maybe not--to the conglomerateur who doesn't understand just how special the movie business is, who doesn't and can't love it the way Farber does. Moviola is the most colorful, brilliant, iconoclastic, funny and moving novel about the movie business that anyone has ever written.
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Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 - March 13, 1999) was a prolific American writer and director of plays and films. Come on Strong was a play produced Oct 04, 1962 - Nov 03, 1962.
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Bruguera. Barcelona. 1981. 18 cm. 510 p., 1 h. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Colección Naranja'. Kanin, Garson 1912-1999. Traducción del inglés Beatriz Podestá .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. Cubierta deslucida. ISBN: 84-02-08287-4
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Trade paperback edition, Frederick Ungar Publishing, NY, 77 pages. Stills from the film throughout. This is the complete, final screenplay for the RKO film, originally released in 1941, the screenwriter's final directorial effort before he entered the military. Impressive cast includes: Ginger Rogers, Burgess Meredith, George Murphy, and others.
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Nina Arianda Signed Opening Night Color Silver Seal Cover Born Yesterday 2011 ** Nina Arianda Signed Opening Night Color Silver Seal on the cover of the Playbill from Born Yesterday starring Jim Belushi Robert Sean Leonard Nina Arianda Frank Wood Written by Garson Kanin** This Playbill was Signed by Nina Arianda after a Show in New York. The Signature by Nina Arianda is on the front cover. She has signed in Black Thick Marker. This is a Nina Arianda Signed Opening Night Color Silver Seal on the cover of the Playbill from Born Yesterday. The stars of this new production of the Play are Jim Belushi , Robert Sean Leonard and Nina Arianda . The Back cover has corner crease towards the top. The Playbill is in Excellent Condition. No rips or tears. The Playbill is dated from April 24 , 2011 with an opening night credit on the title page. Directed by Doug Hughes.. The Full Cast include Jim Belushi Robert Sean Leonard Nina Arianda Freddy Arsenault Terry Beaver Bill Christ Patricia Hodges Michael McGrath Jennifer Regan Liv Rooth Danny Rutigliano Andrew Weems Frank Wood .
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Kanin, Garson was born on November 24, 1912 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of David and Sadie (Levine) Kanin.
Educaed at James Madison High School, New York, American Academy, of Dramatic Arts, New York.
Kanin passed through the film world in an unusual direction, from director to writer, enjoying the reputation of perverse smartness. At his best in sophisticated comedy based on thorough character studies and unashamed of staginess, Kanin never concealed his liking for a witty élite scheming against the grain of a fatuous industry. His record vindicated that approach and if this account of the making of Adam’s Rib seems cozy, it should be remembered that comedies of sexual antagonism do not come much better:
The original script was bought by Metro for the highest price they had ever paid for an original: they paid $175,000. Then all sorts of things happened, like getting the supporting players together, and it was really us, as a little unit, doing everything. We worked on the script with Dore Schary and Kate and Spence; we got Orry Kelley in on the clothes; Kate went out and got Cole Porter to write the song. Ruth [R. Gordon, Kanin’s wife] and Г went to work with the designer, Cedric Gibbons, and one day he looked up at us and said, “You know, this is an historic day’. I’ve been at the studio twenty-five years, and this is the first time writers have ever been in my office. . .
It was because the work of the writer and director was so often at the mercy of insensitive front office scissors that Kanin lost heart for directing. But he could argue that, as a writer, he had a greater effect upon finished films because of his ability to slip a project past the blind side of men like Harry Cohn. He had begun in the theatre, working with George Abbott, and then joined Samuel Goldwyn in a vague but humiliating role—“he called me Thalberg all the time.’ He left and went to RKO, where he directed his pre-war films. Although he never took any script credit, they show his growing skill at satirical, domestic comedy: The Great Man Votes was one of the more worthwhile pictures John Barrymore made as he sank into alcohol; Bachelor Mother is a good Norman Krasna script with David Niven and Ginger Rogers; while Mi/ Favorite Wife, with Can- Grant and Irene Dunne, was directed by Kanin after Leo McCarey had been involved in a road accident. Not as boisterous as McCarey or as dry as Hawks, it is still enjovable and a touchstone for Kanin’s own work.
During the war he went to Europe, worked with Carol Reed on The True Glory, and at the same time wrote the plav Born Yesterday. Its Broadway success and Adam's Rib (49, George Cukor) capitalized on his first script (written with Ruth Gordon): A Double Life (48, Cukor). Perhaps the Broadway success, and his harmony with Tracy and Hepburn, explained the influence he had at this time. He and Gordon appear to have been instrumental in devising the Judv Holliday character, and in seeing that Holliday herself should bring it to life. They scripted Cukor's film of Born Yesterday (50), The Marrying Kind (52, Cukor), and Pat and Mike (52, Cukor). After that, and without Ruth Gordon, he scripted It Should Happen to You (54, Cukor); The Girl Can't Help It (56, Frank Tashlin); High Time (59, Blake Edwards); and The Rat Race (60, Robert Mulligan).
His 1969 return as a director suggested a man who had outlived his time. Indeed, his memoir, Tracy and Hepburn, published in 1971, is glazed with his own nostalgia for one vivid decade. At this distance, it is hard to see him as the most talented member of that group, but there are situations that call for go-betweens: if it was Adam and Eve that played the main parts, it still needed someone with the wit to see that shifting a rib would set them in motion.
His book Moviola, published in 1979, was turned into a television mini-series (80, John Erman). In the same year, he and Ruth Gordon cowrote a TV movie, Hardhat and Legs (Lee Philips).
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Actor in Broadway productions Little Ol' Boy, 1933, Spring Song, 1934, Ladies' Money, 1934, Three Men on a Horse, 1935, The Body Beautiful, 1935, Boy Meets Girl, 1935, Star Spangled, 1936. Assistant director to George Abbott Broadway productions Three Men on a Horse, Boy Meets Girl, Room Service, Brother Rat, 1935-1937. Director Broadway productions Hitch Your Wagon, 1937, Too Many Heroes, 1937, (films) A Man to Remember, 1938, Next Time I Marry, 1938, The Great Man Votes, 1939, Bachelor Mother, 1939, My Favorite Wife, 1940, They Knew What They Wanted, 1940, Tom, Dick and Harry, 1941.Director documentary films Night Shift, Fellow Americans, Ring of Steel, German Manpower, Battle Stations, A Salute to France (with Jean Renoir). Director plays The Rugged Path, 1945, Years Ago, 1946, How I Wonder, 1947, The Leading Lady, 1948, The Diary of Anne Frank, 1955, Into Thin Air, 1955, Small War on Murray Hill, 1957, A Hole in the Head, 1957, Sunday in New York, 1961, Funny Girl, 1964, I Was Dancing, 1964, A Very Rich Woman, 1965, We Have Always Lived in The Castle, 1965, Idiot's Delight, 1970, Ho! Ho! Ho!, 1976. Writer, director plays Born Yesterday, 1946 (Sidney Howard Memorial award, Donaldson award).Smile of the World, 1949, The Rat Race, 1949, The Live Wire, 1950, Do Re Mi, 1961, Come on Strong, 1962, Peccadillo, 1985, Happy Ending, 1988. Writer (play) Time and Chance, 1985. Adaptor, director, actor (play) Remembering Mr.Maugham, 1967. Adaptor, director plays The Amazing Adele, 1950, The Good Soup, 1960, A Gift of Time, 1962, Dreyfus in Rehearsal, 1974. Author films A Double Life, 1948 (with Ruth Gordon, Academy award nomination), Adam's Rib, 1949 (with Ruth Gordon, Academy award nomination), Pat and Mike, 1952 (Academy award nomination), The Marrying Kind, 1952.Screenplays (in collaboration) Woman of the Year, 1942, The More the Merrier, 1943, (in collaboration) From This Day Forward, 1946, (in collaboration) Born Yesterday, 1950, It Should Happen to You, 1953, (in collaboration) The Girl Can't Help It, 1957, The Rat Race, 1959, (in collaboration) High Time, 1960, (in collaboration) The Right Approach, 1961. Writer, director Some Kind of Nut, 1969, Where It's At, 1969. Author tele-plays Born Yesterday, 1956, Mr.Broadway, 1963-1964, Josie and Joe, Hardhat and Legs (with Ruth Gordon), 1978. Librettist for Fledermaus, Metropolitan Opera Company, 1950, 66, also director. Author books Blow Up a Storm, 1959, The Rat Race, 1960, Remembering Mr.Maugham, 1966, Cast of Characters, 1969, Tracy and Hepburn: An Intimate Memoir, 1971, A Thousand Summers, 1973, Hollywood, 1974, One Hell of an Actor, 1977, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young, 1978, Moviola, 1979, Smash, 1980, Together Again!, 1981, Cordelia, 1982. Contributor Great Love Stories from the Saturday Evening Post. Director (with Carol Reed) General Eisenhower's film report The True Glory (best film of 1945 National Board Review., Academy award, citation New York Film Critics Circle).
Served to captain Army of the United States, 1941-1945. Member American Society of Composers, American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Society Stage Directors and Choreographers, Directors Guild American, Writers Guild American West, Dramatists Guild (council emeritus), Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Authors League (president), Authors Guild, Actors Fund, Actors Equity, The Players Club (emeritus vice president), Century Association (New York City), New York Athletic Club.
Married Ruth Gordon, December 4, 1942 (deceased). Married Marian Seldes, June 19, 1990.