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Garson Kanin

Highest Rated: 100% The More the Merrier (1943)

Lowest Rated: 25% Born Yesterday (1993)

Birthday: Nov 24, 1912

Birthplace: Rochester, New York, USA

A highly competent, witty playwright, screenwriter and director, Garson Kanin is perhaps best-remembered for his 1945 Broadway smash "Born Yesterday" and for the scenarios he wrote for others, especially George Cukor.

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Highest rated movies

100% 81% The More the Merrier
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100% 76% It Should Happen to You
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100% 45% Tom, Dick and Harry
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100% 89% Bachelor Mother
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96% 86% Adam's Rib
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88% 64% A Double Life
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86% 82% My Favorite Wife
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85% 69% Pat and Mike
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82% 69% The Girl Can't Help It
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63% 56% The Marrying Kind
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
25% 27% Born Yesterday Writer $17.8M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hardhat and Legs Screenwriter - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Some Kind of a Nut Director - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Where It's At Director,
Writer
- 1969
82% 69% The Girl Can't Help It Writer - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Born Yesterday Director,
Screenwriter
- 1956
100% 76% It Should Happen to You Writer - 1954
63% 56% The Marrying Kind Writer - 1952
85% 69% Pat and Mike Screenwriter - 1952
96% 86% Adam's Rib Writer - 1949
88% 64% A Double Life Writer - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Battle Stations Director - 1944
No Score Yet No Score Yet Salute to France Director - 1944
100% 81% The More the Merrier Writer - 1943
100% 45% Tom, Dick and Harry Director - 1941
86% 82% My Favorite Wife Director - 1940
No Score Yet 36% They Knew What They Wanted Director - 1940
No Score Yet 73% The Great Man Votes Director - 1939
100% 89% Bachelor Mother Director - 1939
No Score Yet 42% A Man to Remember Director - 1938
No Score Yet 29% Next Time I Marry Director - 1938

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet Adam's Rib Writer 1973
No Score Yet 87% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Writer 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Writer 1957