Screenplay: Garson Kanin
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Garson Kanin. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Adam's Rib
1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell
Plot Domestic and professional tensions mount when husband Adam Bonner and his wife Amanda work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
7.8
10K votes
7.8
10K votes
Born Yesterday
1950 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Holliday · William Holden · Broderick Crawford · Howard St. John
Plot 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. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
It Should Happen to You!
1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Holliday · Peter Lawford · Jack Lemmon · Connie Gilchrist
Plot "It Should Happen To You" is the delightful, bubble-headed comedy about Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who decides that all one really needs to be famous is a gigantic billboard advertising...
7.0
930 votes
7.0
930 votes
A Double Life
1947 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Ronald Colman · Signe Hasso · Edmond O'Brien · Shelley Winters
Plot The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony "Tony" John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony...
6.9
685 votes
6.9
685 votes
Smash (TV Series)
2012 · Series · 40 min. · United States
Direction Theresa Rebeck · Michael Morris · Michael Mayer · Tricia Brock
Cast Debra Messing · Jack Davenport · Katharine McPhee · Christian Borle
Plot TV Series (2012-2013). 2 seasons. 32 episodes. There's nothing more exciting than the opening night of a hit Broadway musical, except maybe what happens getting there. While "Wicked" and "The...
6.6
889 votes
6.6
889 votes
Pat and Mike
1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Aldo Ray · William Ching
Plot Pat Pemberton is a women's sports sensation - a champion in golf, tennis, and whatever else she decides to do. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, Mike Conovan...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
The Marrying Kind
1952 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Judy Holliday · Aldo Ray · Madge Kennedy · Sheila Bond
6.4
259 votes
6.4
259 votes
From This Day Forward
1946 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Berry
Cast Joan Fontaine · Mark Stevens · Rosemary DeCamp · Harry Morgan
Plot In flashbacks, the 1938 courtship and marriage of young machinist Bill Cummings and bookstore clerk Susan are recalled: newlywed bliss, unemployment and other tribulations, opportunity with a hidden drawback, war...
6.1
109 votes
6.1
109 votes
The Girl Can't Help It
1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Tom Ewell · Jayne Mansfield · Edmond O'Brien · Julie London
Plot A down-and-out gangster hires an alcoholic press agent to make his blonde bombshell girlfriend a recording star in 6 weeks. But what is he going to do when he finds...
6.1
186 votes
6.1
186 votes
The Rat Race
1960 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Robert Mulligan
Cast Tony Curtis · Debbie Reynolds · Jack Oakie · Don Rickles
Plot Peter arrives at New York City with his sax in hand and high hopes for a career. He then meets Peggy, a dancer down on her luck who needs a...
5.8
183 votes
5.8
183 votes
High Time
1960 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Bing Crosby · Fabian · Tuesday Weld · Nicole Maurey
Plot Widower and hamburger restaurateur Harvey Howard decides to go to college at 51 years of age. Resisting the easy path, he insists on not receiving preferential treatment, and lives in...
5.2
22 votes
5.2
22 votes
Born Yesterday
1993 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Luis Mandoki
Cast Melanie Griffith · Don Johnson · John Goodman · Edward Herrmann
Plot A businessman shows up in Washington to lobby agendas that are friendly to his construction plans. His ditsy ex-showgirl bimbo proves to be an embarrassment in social situations, so he...
4.3
2K votes
4.3
2K votes
Where It's At
1969 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Garson Kanin
Cast David Janssen · Rosemary Forsyth · Robert Drivas · Brenda Vaccaro
Plot 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...
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Hardhat and Legs
1980 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Lee Philips
Cast Kevin Dobson · Sharon Gless · Raymond Serra · Charlie Aiken
Plot Attractive socialite falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.
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The Scarlett O'Hara War (TV Miniseries)
1980 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast Tony Curtis · Bill Macy · Harold Gould · Sharon Gless
Plot This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
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The Right Approach
1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction David Butler
Cast Frankie Vaughan · Martha Hyer · Juliet Prowse · Gary Crosby
Plot The story of five fun-loving young bachelors who live together in a converted nightclub in the Hollywood Hills. Newcomer Leo Mack is a young Hollywood hopeful who stirs up trouble...
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This Year's Blonde (TV Miniseries)
1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast Lloyd Bridges · Constance Forslund · Norman Fell · Vic Tayback
Plot First of two 1980 TV movies about Marilyn Monroe which this one details her days as an aspiring actress through her love affair with high-powered agent Johnny Hyde to the...
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Alfred Hitchcock presents: Six People, No Music (TV)
1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
Direction Norman Lloyd
Cast John McGiver · Peggy Cass · Howard Smith · Joby Baker
Plot When wealthy department store owner Barryvale dies, local mortician Art Motherwell anticipates a windfall from a lavish funeral. But the dearly beloved awakens from death to insist the mortician keep...
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The Silent Lovers (TV Miniseries)
1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction John Erman
Cast Brian Keith · Barry Bostwick · Harold Gould · John Rubinstein
Plot Third "Moviola" film showing the life in Hollywood of the 1930's centering this time on the ill-fated romance between John Gilbert and Greta Garbo.
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Some Kind of a Nut
1969 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Garson Kanin
Cast Dick Van Dyke · Angie Dickinson · Rosemary Forsyth · Zohra Lampert
Plot In this comedy-satire on conformity, Dick Van Dyke plays a Manhattan bank teller who grows a beard when he develops a rash from a bee sting. He is promptly fired...
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