Garson Kanin

Smash

A songwriting duo tries to create a hit with a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Release Date: 2012-02-06

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Episode Count: 32

Vote Count: 72

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement was enriched by new challenges in which he exposed the vulnerability and emotion of the later years as few had dared. He reveled in his ongoing screen partnerships with directors like Billy Wilder and stars like Walter Matthau. Narrated on-camera by Jack Lemmon, this documentary includes interviews with Lemmon's son, the actor Chris Lemmon. Also appearing are such legends as Jack's life-long friend, the writer and director Billy Wilder, writer-director Garson Kanin, drama teacher Uta Hagen and actor Gregory Peck.

Release Date: 1996-11-25

Character: Self

Vote Count: 2

Katharine Hepburn: On Her Own Terms

Four-time Oscar-winner Katharine Hepburn called herself a "personality" as well as an actress, and rightfully so. This biography chronicles her life as an independent woman and legendary actress, from her childhood to her passionate relationships. Brought to light are thoughts on Howard Hughes, John Ford and longtime companion Spencer Tracy. Her story comes to life through rare home movies, screen tests, movie outtakes and interviews.

Release Date: 1996-10-04

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Born Yesterday

A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the showgirl's lack of etiquette may damage his own social reputation and tries to change her — but fails to realise that her enhanced eloquence will empower her to voice her own strong opinions.

Release Date: 1993-03-26

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 89

Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond

The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.

Release Date: 1990-10-22

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.

Release Date: 1990-07-23

Character: Self

Tattingers

Tattingers is an American comedy-drama series that aired by the NBC television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup. After failing in the Nielsen ratings as an hour-long program, the plot and characters were briefly revived in the spring of 1989 as the half-hour situation comedy Nick & Hillary.

Release Date: 1988-10-26

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Release Date: 1988-06-05

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and professional life that features intimate personal accounts, interviews and clips from his most acclaimed work on the silver screen.

Release Date: 1986-03-09

Character: Self

Vote Count: 5

The Silent Lovers

The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.

Release Date: 1980-05-20

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 1

The Scarlett O'Hara War

The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Release Date: 1980-05-19

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 7

This Year's Blonde

First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.

Release Date: 1980-05-18

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 3

Hardhat & Legs

A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.

Release Date: 1980-02-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 2

Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib is an American situation comedy broadcast on ABC-TV from September 14 to December 28, 1973. It was produced by MGM Television and had 13 episodes. The series was a TV adaptation of the 1949 motion picture of the same name.

Release Date: 1973-09-14

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1

Ferraille et chiffons

Release Date: 1972-11-03

Department: Writing

Job: Author

Vote Count: 1

Some Kind of a Nut

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

Release Date: 1969-09-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7

Where It's At

A "Sixties Generation" comedy about an offbeat father-son relationship. Dad runs a Las Vegas hotel-casino and his son is a college student with a different set of moral and ethical standards. When they meet in Vegas, they immediately clash in their efforts to understand one another.

Release Date: 1969-05-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

Release Date: 1968-06-06

Character: Self - Guest

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 20

Mr. Broadway

Mr. Broadway is an American 13-episode CBS adventure and drama television series starring Craig Stevens as New York City public relations specialist Mike Bell. The program aired at 9 p.m. Eastern time Saturdays from September 26 to December 26, 1964. Also featured were Bell's assistant, Toki, portrayed by Lani Miyazaki, and his police contact, Hank McClure, played by Horace McMahon. Mr. Broadway, a Talent Associates Production, was created by Garson Kanin and produced by David Susskind and Daniel Melnick. Dave Brubeck supplied the music and theme. It was shot on location in New York City. Mr. Broadway episodes have unusual titles. The series included rare guest appearances by Liza Minnelli, in her first television dramatic role, as Minnie in "Nightingale for Sale"; Sandy Dennis in "Don't Mention My Name in Sheboygan", and Lauren Bacall as Barbara Lake, with Martin Balsam as Nate Bannerman, in "Something to Sing About". Other episodes are "Keep an Eye on Emily" with Tuesday Weld as Emily and Oleg Cassini as himself, "Take a Walk Through a Cemetery" with Lauren Bacall, again, but also with Jason Robards, Jr., and Jill St. John, "Try to Find a Spy" with Barbara Feldon and Simon Oakland, "Between the Rats and the Finks" with Larry Hagman, Dyan Cannon, Bruce Gordon, and Patrick McVey, "The He-She Chemistry" with Tammy Grimes, "Maggie, Queen of the Jungle", with Nina Foch in the title role, "Smelling Like a Rose" with Art Carney, Hal Roach, and Tina Louise, "Bad Little Rich Girl" with Diana Van der Vlis as Mary Beth Warren and Larry Pennell as John Chambers, "Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones" with Philip Abbott as Geoffrey Karr and Lola Albright as Duff Daniels. Albright had been Stevens's co-star on Peter Gunn, and "Pay Now, Die Later", the series finale, with David Wayne as John Zeck and John Ireland as Jimmy King. In the latter episode the wealthy Zeck hires Mike Bell to write his obituary ahead of his death.

Release Date: 1964-09-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.

Release Date: 1962-10-01

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 7

The Right Approach

An opportunistic young Hollywood singer, loyal only to himself, steps on everyone he meets in order to achieve success and fame.

Release Date: 1961-05-17

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

High Time

Despite the dissapproval of his grown son and daughter, 51 year old widdower and wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard (Bing Crosby) decides it's 'high time' to he gets his college degree. And he's in for the full ride: living in the dorms, joing a fraternity, falling in love, and even getting some studying in.

Release Date: 1960-09-16

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Vote Count: 7

The Rat Race

An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.

Release Date: 1960-07-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 15

The Diary of Anne Frank

The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

Release Date: 1959-03-18

Department: Directing

Job: Stage Director

Vote Count: 352

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

Release Date: 1957-07-29

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 4

The Girl Can't Help It

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

Release Date: 1956-12-01

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 65

It Should Happen to You

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.

Release Date: 1954-01-15

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 58

Pat and Mike

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.

Release Date: 1952-06-13

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 66

The Marrying Kind

Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved.

Release Date: 1952-02-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 25

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.

Release Date: 1951-12-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Born Yesterday

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn.

Release Date: 1950-12-26

Department: Writing

Job: Theatre Play

Vote Count: 166

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

Release Date: 1950-02-02

Character: Self - Panelist

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 25

Adam's Rib

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.

Release Date: 1949-11-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 310

A Double Life

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Release Date: 1947-12-25

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 67

From This Day Forward

A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.

Release Date: 1946-03-02

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 12

The True Glory

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.

Release Date: 1945-08-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 15

A Salute to France

Directed by Garson Kanin and Jean Renoir.

Release Date: 1944-01-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The More the Merrier

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

Release Date: 1943-05-13

Department: Crew

Job: Additional Writing

Vote Count: 81

Ring of Steel

Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Release Date: 1942-04-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Fellow Americans

After Pearl Harbor Lt. James Stewart narrated this film to rouse American support for the war.

Release Date: 1942-03-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Night Shift

Documentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.

Release Date: 1942-01-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Tom, Dick and Harry

Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry. But Janie just can't seem to make up her mind between them. While fantasizing about her futures with each of the men, Janie spends her time desperately trying to juggle between them until she can make a decision.

Release Date: 1941-06-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 16

They Knew What They Wanted

While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.

Release Date: 1940-10-19

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

My Favorite Wife

Years after she was presumed dead in a shipwreck, Ellen Arden returns home to the surprise of her husband recently remarrying. But he too gets a shock when he learns that Ellen spent her time alone on an island with another man.

Release Date: 1940-05-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 156

Bachelor Mother

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

Release Date: 1939-06-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 65

The Great Man Votes

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.

Release Date: 1939-01-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Next Time I Marry

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.

Release Date: 1938-12-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

A Man to Remember

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

Release Date: 1938-10-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6