Garson Kanin (5)

Garson Kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films.

Garson Kanin began his show business career as a jazz musician, burlesque comedian, and actor. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and made his Broadway debut in Little Ol' Boy (1933). In 1935, Kanin was cast in a George Abbott play and soon became Abbott's assistant. Kanin made his Broadway debut as a director in 1936, at the age of twenty-four, with Hitch Your Wagon.

In 1945, Kanin directed Spencer Tracy in Tracy's first play in 15 years. Tracy had been through a dark patch personally—culminating with a stay in hospital—and Katharine Hepburn felt that a play would help restore his focus. Tracy told a journalist in April, "I'm coming back to Broadway to see if I can still act." The play was The Rugged Path by Robert E. Sherwood, which first previewed in Providence, Rhode Island on September 28, to a sold-out crowd and tepid response.

The Rugged Path was a difficult production, with Kanin later writing, "In the ten days prior to the New York opening all the important relationships had deteriorated. Spencer was tense and unbending, could not, or would not, take direction". Tracy considered leaving the show before it even opened on Broadway, and lasted there just six weeks before announcing his intention to close the show. It closed on January 19, 1946, after 81 performances. Tracy later explained to a friend: "I couldn't say those goddamn lines over and over and over again every night ... At least every day is a new day for me in films ... But this thing—every day, every day, over and over again."

Kanin's 1946 play Born Yesterday, which he also directed, ran for 1,642 performances. Kanin worked, uncredited, on the screenplay of the 1950 film adaptation.

His other stage work includes directing The Diary of Anne Frank (1955), which ran for 717 performances, and the musical Funny Girl (1964), which ran for 1,348 performances.

Kanin wrote and directed his last play, Peccadillo, in 1985, the same year he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. wiki

Director (18 credits)
1969 Some Kind of a Nut
1969 La última carta
1964 Mr. Broadway (TV Series) (1 episode)
- An Eye on Emily (1964)
1956 Born Yesterday (TV Movie)
1945 The True Glory (Documentary)
1944 Night Stripes
1944 Salute to France (Short)
1944 Battle Stations (Documentary short)
1942 Fellow Americans (Short documentary)
1942/I Night Shift (Documentary short)
1942 Ring of Steel (Documentary short)
1941 Tom, Dick and Harry
1940 Sabían lo que querían (They Knew What They Wanted)
1940 Mi mujer favorita (My Favorite Wife)
1939 Mamá a la fuerza (Bachelor Mother)
1939 The Great Man Votes
1938 La última vez que me casé
1938 A Man to Remember
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OK Bachelor Mother (Garson Kanin, 1939)
OK My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin, 1940)
OK The Great Man Votes (Garson Kanin, 1939)
OK They Knew What They Wanted (Garson Kanin, 1940)
OK Tom, Dick and Harry (Garson Kanin, 1941)

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