Kanin, Garson
Kanin, Garson( 1912–99),New York-born actor, producer, director of plays and motion pictures, whose own stage plays include Born Yesterday (1946), a farce about wartime Washington; and Smile of the World (1949), about a brilliant young lawyer who becomes a pompous, reactionary Supreme Court justice. He also wrote novels: Do Re Mi (1955), Blow Up a Storm (1959), A Thousand Summers (1973), A Hell of an Actor (1977), Moviola (1979), Smash (1980), and Cordelia? (1982), all in some ways bearing on the theater world; Hollywood (1974); memoirs of people he has known, such as Together Again (1978); and his own brief and grudging memoir, It Takes a Long Time To Become Young (1978).
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