Garson Kanin

2 days ago

Today is the birthday of W. Somerset Maugham, friend and mentor to Garson Kanin. GK wrote a fascinating sketch of Maugham in his memoir REMEMBERING MR. MAUGHAM (now available as an ebook). Below, Robert Emmett Lunney portrays Kanin, and Sam Tsoutsouvas plays Maugham in the 2012 off-Broadway production of the play based on the book. … See MoreSee Less

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Garson Kanin

3 days ago

Garson Kanin met Ruth Gordon at the home of George Cukor in 1939 (though he’d been a fan of hers for years). They married three years later, and subsequently collaborated with Cukor on several films:
A Double Life, starring Ronald Colman; Adam’s Rib and Pat and Mike, with Tracy and Hepburn; Born Yesterday, The Marrying Kind, and It Should Happen to You, all featuring Judy Holliday, and The Actress, starring Jean Simmons and Spencer Tracy. Cukor also directed Gordon in Two Faced Woman, Garbo’s last film. Cukor died on the day in 1983. … See MoreSee Less

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