Garson Kanin - biography

“The best part of one’s life is the working part, the creative part.  Believe me, I love to succeed...  However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.”

“Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.”

“A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity.  I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.”

“Amateurs hope, professionals work.”

Garson Kanin directed the following films:
Bachelor Mother (1939)
The Great Man Votes (1939)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
Tom Dick and Harry (1941)
Salute to France (1944)
The True Glory (1945)
Some Kind of a Nut (1969)


Garson Kanin contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Bachelor Mother (1939)
The Great Man Votes (1939)
A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
The More the Merrier (1943)
A Double Life (1947)
Adam’s Rib (1949)
Born Yesterday (1950)
The Marrying Kind (1952)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
High Time (1960)
The Rat Race (1960)
Walk Don’t Run (1966)
Some Kind of a Nut (1969)
Born Yesterday (1993)