# Garson Kanin
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garson kanin (November 24, 1912 – March 13, 1999) was an American writer and director of plays and films.
== Early life ==
garson kanin was born in Rochester, New York; his family later relocated to Detroit then to New York City. He attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn, dropping out to take up a career on the theatre stage.
Episode 349: Bachelor Mother (1939) - NEW YEAR'S EVE ON FILM
Welcome to It's A Wonderful Podcast!
Happy New Year! We hope 2025 proves to be a wonderful year for you!
Back to Old Hollywood hilarity for this week's New Years Eve movie with a rom-com that mixes pure silliness with deep sincerity in a way writer/director Garson Kanin would become even more not…
LONG DISTANCE and A BUSH LEAGUE HERO EDNA FERBER
Two great short stories from Edna Ferber for your enjoyment. When you listen to her writing style you begin tom appreciate how much she says with a minimum of words- yet we know her characters and learn her story completely.
Few people now recollect Edna Ferber, once a best-selling novelist. Never…
The Girl Can't Help It (1956) Jayne Mansfield, Tom Ewell, & Little Richard!
Book Vs. Movie: “The Girl Can’t Help It” The Garson Kanin Play Vs. the Jayne Mansfield MovieThe 1956 Technicolor film The Girl Can’t Help It is often remembered for Jayne Mansfield’s curves and Little Richard’s title song, but it originated from Garson Kanin's short story Do Re Mi. This satirical p…
Born Yesterday
“I want everybody to be smart. I want 'em to be as smart as they can be. A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”A Comedy of Intelligence: Breaking Down Born YesterdayGeorge Cukor's 1950 comedy Born Yesterday stars Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn, a former showgirl who finds herse…
Norm Nathan’s Vault of Silliness w/Tony Nesbitt - Ep 261 - Bad Reception and Bad Jokes
Welcome back all you lovers of the Silly. The next three eeks will feature DBG from the same date in consecutive years. Hang on…maybe the last week is off by a day, but I get high marks for trying.
Today is from November 24th, 1993, and will be titled: Bad Reception and Bad Jokes
The upcoming we…
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Nick And Simon talk about the Jazz Novel Blow up a storm published in 1959 [ a seminal year in Jazz history]This is a first novel by the director, producer and dramatist, Garson Kanin, whose short stories have appeared in Esquire, Vogue and the Atlantic Monthly. Written in the first …
Colman Domingo
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss their favorite books. In this episode, Charlotte Owen talks with multihyphenate star Colman Domingo about the title he considered adapting, why he wishes Season 3 of Euphoria was released all at once…
Special Subject – Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and its Informal Antecedents - DAYS OF BEING WILD (1990); IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) and 2046 (2004)
Our Special Subject for June is Wong Kar-wai's so-called "Love Trilogy": Days of Being Wild (1990), In the Mood for Love (2000), and 2046 (2004). Our discussion walks a tightrope of abstraction as we consider the philosophical implications of Wong's treatment of the theme of love: whether it can b…
Rosanne has a chapter in New Screenwriting Collection: About Dorothy Parker and A Star is Born
Rosanne has a chapter in a New Screenwriting Collection: About Dorothy Parker and A Star is Born
Available in Hardback and eBook at Bloomsbury | Bookshop.org | Amazon
It was lovely to fly home from a week of visiting cousins in Cleveland to find our mail deliverer had dropped off a cop…
Bachelor Mother (1939): A Hilarious Mix-Up of Love and Laughter!
In this episode of Mindset Movie Reviews, I take a closer look at Bachelor Mother (1939).
Directed by Garson Kanin, starring Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, and E.E. Clive.
⭐ Rating: 4.0/5
🏆 IMDb: 7.5/10
🎬 Genre: Comedy and Romance
⏱ Runtime: 82 minutes
📅 Releas…
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