Biography: Garson Kanin |
Younger brother of scriptwriter Michael Kanin. Garson Kanin acted in and directed theatrical productions in the 1930s, and in 1938 began directing films. His notable early films include the comedies The Great Man Votes (1938), Bachelor Mother (1939),... more
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The Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon - America's Everyman (1996)
Cast: Billy Wilder Jack Lemmon Neil Simon
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...
Cast: Dick Van Dyke Angie Dickinson
Tags: Comedy
Length: 90min
In this satirical comedy, Fred Amidon (Dick Van Dyke) is a Fifth Avenue bank teller waiting for his divorce to be finalized to end his marriage to Rachel (Angie Dickinson). He and fellow employee Pamela (Rosemary Forsyth) plan to marry once the ink...
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....
Cast: 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...
Tags: Romance Comedy Romantic Comedy
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...
Cast: Irene Dunne Cary Grant
Tags: Comedy Screwball Comedy Romantic 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...
Cast: John Barrymore
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...
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
Cast: Carole Lombard Charles Laughton Garson Kanin Harry Carey
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...
Tags: Drama
Length: 79min
A remake of 1933's One Man's Journey, A Man to Remember was the auspicious film directorial debut of Garson Kanin. Told in flashback from the vantage point of a funeral, the film details the life of small-town general practioner Doctor Abbott (Edward...
Cast: David Niven Ginger Rogers
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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