Entertainment & Arts
More than a fluffy tale of love among the mismatched, Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday,” at the Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse through June 30, is a cautionary little fable about the corruptibility of power.
June 13, 1991
Garson Kanin, a prolific playwright who created the Broadway and Hollywood classic “Born Yesterday,” died Saturday.
March 14, 1999
Movies
Michael Kanin, an artist who found his metier as an Oscar-winning screenwriter and Broadway playwright, has died.
March 15, 1993
Family Values: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will pay tribute to the Kanin family--Michael, Fay, Garson and the late Ruth Gordon--tonight at 8 at the academy headquarters in Beverly Hills.
Nov. 24, 1992
Allen Garfield and Rebecca De Mornay will play lead roles in the Pasadena Playhouse revival of Garson Kanin’s 1946 classic “Born Yesterday,” the theater announced Tuesday.
June 8, 1988
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will pay tribute in September to films written by, produced by or starring the Kanin family: brothers Michael, who married Fay Mitchell (a screenwriter and past president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), and Garson, who married actress Ruth Gordon.
Aug. 17, 2001
A LACMA festival pays tribute to the influential Kanins, who wrote, produced or acted in 40 years of films.
Sept. 2, 2001
Books
Broadway Book: A new book from Broadway will raise money for the fight against AIDS.
Jan. 7, 1992
When the Writers Guild of America hands out its 41st annual awards on Monday, four honorary awards will be made along with the recognition of achievements in motion picture and television writing in the last year.
March 14, 1989
In 1946, Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” bows on Broadway. The omens are not good.
June 21, 1988