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About Playwright Garson Kanin
Garson Kanin began as a young successful New York actor and the right
hand man of Broadway impresario George Abbot. He adored the theatre and
directing films wasn't a "big deal." "The theatre is my love and my life…the
movies are a mistress," he declared. He honored his first love by directing
many of Broadway's best, including The Diary of Anne Frank, A Hole in the Head,
The Rat Race, The Live Wire, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl and,
of course, Born Yesterday.
Still, regardless of his opinion of the movies, he eventually arrived in
Hollywood where he directed several classic "screwball" film comedies, including
The Great Man Votes, Bachelor Mother and My Favorite Wife.
He next began writing--with his actress wife, Ruth Gordon--some of filmdom's most
brilliant romantic comedies-Pat and Mike, Adam's Rib (for their
good friends Tracy and Hepburn) and a Judy Holliday trilogy: The Marrying Kind,
It Should Happen To You and, from his Broadway hit play, Born Yesterday.
His novel, Movieola was adapted three times for television.
Garson Kanin died in 1999 at the age of 86.
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