Garson Kanin papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2500
Subjects: Correspondence; Motion pictures; Theater; Stories, plots; Production and direction; Drama
Description: Correspondence and production material relating to Kanin's stage and film projects.  Includes scripts of plays and screenplays that Kanin wrote or directed including The Amazing Adele, Born Yesterday, The Boy, Come on Strong, The Diary of Anne Frank, Do Re Mi, and A Hole in the Head.  Accompanied by casting deliberations, performance evaluations, technical notes, financial records, foreign productions, stock and amateur rights, publicity, and printed matter.  Correspondents include René Clair, Alec Guinness, Dorothy Ludington Massey, and Robert E. Sherwood.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Garson Kanin, 1969.

Converted to gift and purchase, 2008.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Actor, author, producer, and director.

Collection material in English.

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