Garson Kanin
Connections
Quotes
I was hooked on the chance to deal with a subject usually presented to the public in a romantic haze of myth
He was right ... It was lousy advice. Looking back at it, I realize that when Max Gordon asked me which play he should do, I should have said, &lsquoDo mine.’ Because I’ve learned that confidence in yourself and in your work is your greatest attribute.More quotes »
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TV: Smash: “The Parents”
this will be my last Smash review, I went ahead and plowed through the rest of Garson Kanin’s Smash: A Novel, to see if the book had any final insights to offer. There’s way too much florid romantic prose and tawdriness in the last 200 pages for me to quote from The A.V. Club Read more »
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Fay Kanin
to get a job as a story editor at RKO. It was there that she met Michael Kanin, older brother of the more famous writer Garson Kanin. They married in 1940. Fay and Michael's first screenplay, Sunday Punch (1942), based on a New Yorker short story about a boarding from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Fay Kanin, 95, Writer for Movies and TV
that women should never back away from life.” Ms. Kanin collaborated with her husband, Michael Kanin — the brother of Garson Kanin, who also wrote films with his wife, Ruth Gordon — on numerous screenplays, sometimes with other writers. They included “Sunday from The New York Times Read more »
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Review: 'Yesterday' dallies in past
Kanin’s play “Born Yesterday” was born quite a few yesterdays ago. Compared with other works of similar mid-20th-century vintage, it hasn’t aged so well. That lamentable fact is demonstrated by the polished and well-cast but ultimately disappointing Moonlight from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
