Garson Kanin

On stage 5 productions, 2 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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Also credited on2 works

Do Re Mi
Funny Girl

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In the literature8 passages

• Fledermaus, Die Metropolitan Opera Music by Johann Strauss Book by Garson Kanin Lyrics by Howard Dietz CD PACO 030ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• With two movies and a TV special in the works, I was doing just fine. The first film was Some Kind of a Nut , a comedy written and directed by Garson Kanin, whose erudite sense of humor had defined his screenplays for Born Yesterday, Pat and Mike , and Adam’s Rib . In Some Kind of a Nut , he cast me as a banker who grows a beard after get…ebooks/Dyke, Dick Van/My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business_ A Memoir - Dick Van Dyke.txt
• MERLE DEBUSKEY: Lillian declined to write the script but suggested a couple of screenwriters, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Garson Kanin came on board as director.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• MERLE DEBUSKEY: We opened October 5, 1955, at the Cort Theater. Garson Kanin and I went backstage to Schildkraut’s dressing room. He was very nervous. “Remember, Peppy, less is more,” Carson said. Schildkraut tended to be a ham.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• “Interview with Boris Aronson in Conversation with Garson Kanin.” New York, 20 March 1975.ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
• “Broadway is where writers are respected … the inverse of Hollywood.” —writer-director GARSON KANIN (Born Yesterday )ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt

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