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The Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon - America's Everyman (1996)

Cast: Billy Wilder Jack Lemmon Neil Simon Garson Kanin Gregory Peck   

Tags: Biography History Film, TV & Radio 

Length: 53min

Jack Lemmon has mastered both stage and screen in his career with such hits as "The Odd Couple," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "The China Syndrome," "Save the Tiger" (for which he received an Oscar) and "Grumpy Old Men." He and Walter Matthau starred...

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Where It's At (1969)

Cast: Garson Kanin David Janssen Brenda Vaccaro Rosemary Forsyth Don Rickles   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 104min

A.C. Smith (David Janssen) is a Las Vegas casino operator whose son visits during his summer vacation from Princeton. His son Andy (Robert Drivas) would rather go to Europe, but daddy dearest wants him to learn the ropes of the gambling business....

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The True Glory (1945)

Cast: Garson Kanin Carol Reed   

Tags: History Military & War World History 

Length: 85min

British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. The movie was assembled from actual footage of the WWII allied invasion of Europe, captured by thousands of different camera...

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My Favorite Wife (1940)

Cast: Irene Dunne Cary Grant Garson Kanin Randolph Scott Gail Patrick   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy 

Length: 88min

Leo McCarey was supposed to both produce and direct My Favorite Wife, but an illness forced him to relinquish the director's chair to Garson Kanin, who did a splendid job. This hilarious retread of the old "Enoch Arden" legend stars Irene Dunne as...

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They Knew What They Wanted (1940)

Cast: Charles Laughton Carole Lombard Harry Carey Garson Kanin Erich Pommer   

Tags: Marriage Drama Drama Romance 

Length: 96min

Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted suffers from Hollywood censorship. Still, this story of the grim consequence of a misbegotten mail-order marriage has much to...

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Tom, Dick and Harry (1941)

Cast: Ginger Rogers Garson Kanin George Murphy Burgess Meredith Renie   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 

Length: 86min

Working girl Ginger Rogers (who dresses like movie star Ginger Rogers, despite her meager salary!) cannot decide which of her three suitors will march her down the aisle. Will it be fast-talking automobile salesman George Murphy, wealthy Alan...

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Bachelor Mother (1939)

Cast: Ginger Rogers David Niven Charles Coburn Garson Kanin E.E. Clive   

Tags: Slapstick Comedy Romance 

Length: 82min

Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large department store. Single and with no steady beau, Polly leads a quiet life until she discovers a baby left at her doorstep. While...

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Next Time I Marry (1938)

Cast: Lucille Ball Garson Kanin Granville Bates Mantan Moreland James Ellison   

Tags: Road Movie 

Length: 65min

The Next Time I Marry stars actress Lucille Ball as an heiress who can only receive her 20 million dollar inheritance by marrying an American citizen. In love with a handsome foreigner, the young heiress marries the first man she comes across--a...

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The Great Man Votes (1938)

Cast: John Barrymore Garson Kanin William Demarest Renie Granville Bates   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 72min

Ageing, alcohol-benumbed John Barrymore had one last great performance left in him before his death in 1942, and The Great Man Votes was the ideal vehicle for that performance. Barrymore plays a widowed, once-distinguished professor, lately reduced to...

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