The film was written specifically as a Tracy-Hepburn vehicle ( their 9th film together ) by friends of the couple, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon.

During this era, Cukor forged an alliance with screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who had met in Cukor's home in 1939 and married three years later.

In 1951, Tracy portrayed a lawyer in The People Against O ' Hara and re-teamed with Hepburn for the sports comedy Pat and Mike ( 1952 ), the second feature written expressly for the pair by Kanin and Gordon.

It was directed by George Stevens, produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin ( his brother Garson Kanin thought up the original idea and worked with Katharine Hepburn along with brother Michael and Lardner on the early drafts, without credit.

When the film was released film critic Bosley Crowther lauded the film, writing, " We have it on the very good authority of Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, who should know — they being not only actors and playwrights but wife and spouse — that what seems a fairly safe profession, acting, is as dangerous as they come and love between people of the theatre is an adventure fraught with infinite perils.

They ended up between the Kanin and Taymyr peninsulas, around the Ob and Yenisey rivers, with only a few of them settling into small communities like Kolva.

* Grind ( musical ), with a story by Fay Kanin

During the London production of this musical, Chayefsky encountered Joshua Logan, a future collaborator, and Garson Kanin, who invited Chayefsky to collaborate with him on a documentary of the Allied invasion, The True Glory.

* The True Glory ( 1945 ), uncredited, with Garson Kanin

Like Bamse, Skutt ended up marrying his girlfriend ; Nina Kanin, best friend with Brummelisa.

Zimbalist attended Yale University in the late 1930s, worked as a page for NBC radio in New York, and served in the army for five years during World War II, where he became friends with Garson Kanin.

Do Re Mi is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a book by Garson Kanin, who also directed the original 1960 Broadway production.

Kanin made his Broadway debut as a director in 1936, at the age of twenty-four, with " Hitch Your Wagon ".

During this time Kanin, with Carol Reed, co-directed General Dwight D. Eisenhower's official record of the Allied Invasion, the Academy-award-winning documentary " The True Glory ".

In 1941, he and Katharine Hepburn worked with his brother Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr., on the early drafts of what would become Woman of the Year right before Garson enlisted in the army.

They Knew What They Wanted is a 1940 film with Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey, and Karl Malden ( in his film debut ), directed by Garson Kanin.

Other cast members include John Alexander, Charles Bronson, Peggy Cass, Barry Curtis, Tom Farrell, Frank Ferguson, Ruth Gordon ( who co-wrote the screenplay with Garson Kanin ), Gordon Jones, Madge Kennedy, Nancy Kulp, Mickey Shaughnessy, and Joan Shawlee.

It was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited 1955 novel Do Re Mi by Garson Kanin.

The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin.

Several natural sights are included in the Bovec municipality, such as the source of the Soča River, the 106 m high Boka Falls, the ski resort Kanin, and the Trenta Valley, connected to Bovec with a tourist trail.

Adam's Rib is a 1949 American film written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor.

The movie was directed by George Stevens and written by Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Garson Kanin ( uncredited ), Frank Ross ( Jean Arthur's husband at the time ), and Robert Russell.

It was directed by George Cukor and written for the screen by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin.

* TCM Remembers 1999: Iron Eyes Cody, Betty Lou Gerson, Huntz Hall, Susan Strasberg, film critic Gene Siskel, Richard Kiley, director Stanley Kubrick, Garson Kanin, composer Ernest Gold, Ellen Corby, Charles " Buddy " Rogers, Rory Calhoun, Dirk Bogarde, Oliver Reed, DeForest Kelley, Bobs Watson, director Allan Carr, Sylvia Sidney, screenwriter Mario Puzo, screenwriter Norman Wexler, Ruth Roman, director Edward Dmytryk, director Charles Crichton, Victor Mature, editor Harold F. Kress, George C. Scott, Ian Bannen, Mabel King, Madeline Kahn and Desmond Llewelyn.

* A Double Life ( movie tie-in ) ( Century Book Publications, 1947 ) Based on the screenplay by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon for the George Cukor movie starring Ronald Colman.

In 1935, Kanin was cast in a George Abbott play and soon became Mr. Abbott's assistant.

Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor.

Gordon and Kanin received Academy Awards nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life ( 1947 ), which was also directed by Cukor.

Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib ( 1949 ) and Pat and Mike ( 1952 ).

Tracy and Hepburn's friends, Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, wrote the parts specifically for the duo.

" Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Ford, Garson Kanin and Katharine Hepburn called Tracy the greatest actor of his generation.

In his book Tracy and Hepburn ( 1971 ), Kanin mentions that, when Columbia bought the rights to film Born Yesterday, studio boss Harry Cohn wouldn't consider casting the Hollywood-unknown Holliday.

Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon were close friends of Hepburn and Tracy, and had the idea of writing a film to showcase Hepburn's athletic abilities.

On 31 August 1940, Olivier and Leigh were married in Santa Barbara, California, in a ceremony attended only by their witnesses, Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin.

Celebrity residents since have included actors Katharine Hepburn, June Havoc, Ricardo Montalban and Tyrone Power, writer-director Garson Kanin, composer Stephen Sondheim, jurist Learned Hand, conductor Leopold Stokowski, editor Maxwell Perkins, publisher Henry Luce, journalists Dorothy Thompson and E. B.

" Kanin and Katharine Hepburn were the only witnesses to Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's wedding in California on August 31, 1940.

Hepburn and Kanin encouraged Judy Holliday to play the role of Doris in the movie, which was used by Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn as a screen test for the chance to re-create on film her Broadway success in Kanin's play Born Yesterday.

The outline for the film was developed by Garson Kanin, a close friend of Hepburn.

Kanin was fighting in the war at the time, so the script was written by his brother, Michael Kanin, and mutual friend Ring Lardner, Jr. Hepburn contributed significantly to the script-reading it, suggesting cuts and word changes, and generally providing helpful enthusiasm for the project.

Born Yesterday is a play written by Garson Kanin which premiered on Broadway in 1946, starring Judy Holliday as Billie Dawn.

Kanin chose Holliday as her replacement.

Screenwriter Garson Kanin originally intended the script as a vehicle for Danny Kaye, but Kanin's wife, Ruth Gordon, suggested casting Judy Holliday instead.