Word: kanin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With stage directors, she has the same serious, hard-working approach. Garson Kanin, who directed Fledermaus, suggested that a splendid effect could be achieved if Pat could hold an A while climbing a flight of steps, ending it dramatically as she reached a balcony. Oh no, said Pat, "that would be practically impossible." But when Kanin arrived for rehearsal next day, he found her standing at the foot of the steps, biting her lip and concentrating. Then she ran up the stairs, high-noting it all the way. She doubted whether she could do the same thing in costume...
Howard Dietz and Garson Kanin did not even try to follow the original text in their new English version. Using the fantastic plot as a framework, they packed both the dialogue and songs with as many jokes, double entendres, and Ogden Nashian rhymes as possible. Combining sex, satire, and slapstick, Dietz and Kanin have produced a vehicle which should become one of the most popular items on the Metropolitan's repertoire, despite its dubious artistic significance...
...Imperial navy. His country's defeat left him a civilian, and like other kinsmen of the Imperial family, without title. His Tokyo mansion had been bombed; he built himself a modest cottage on the site of the ruins. There he and his wife, the former Princess Hanako Kanin, settled down as plain Mr. & Mrs. Hironobu Kacho...
Actress Crawford rides her vehicle regally, though it moves too slowly now & then, and a good cast (including Eve Arden as the Congresswoman's flip secretary) trails along, tossing garlands of Playwright Fay Kanin's bright dialogue and remnants of her original message. On Broadway, the heroine's controversial documentary was an antiwar film. In the Hollywood version, she sponsors a movie preaching academic freedom. As the scripters handle it, this glib switch-no doubt an expedient one-leaves the issue so vaguely generalized that, for all the picture's righteous pounding, it rings pretty hollow...
Born Yesterday. As the dumb blonde who wises up, Academy-Award Winner Judy Holliday steals the movie version of Garson Kanin's Broadway hit comedy (TIME...