Garson Kanin

Tom Treanor has left Rome and files a story on the train from Belgrade to Budapest. Oct. 8, 1940: “Hear Katharine Hepburn's very social family frowns on her romance with director Garson Kanin but that he'll probably win 'em over,”......

March 1, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about Marian Anderson and Tom Treanor has the story of Schuyler Standish, 13, who just enrolled at UCLA. Katharine Hepburn has promised director Garson Kanin a yes or no in 30 days. Meanwhile he......

Partnership: Google has launched an archive retrieval project with Israel's national Holocaust museum, with the goal of facilitating public access to Nazi-era documents and photographs. (Reuters) Music of the night: The Broadway production of "The Phantom...

Kim Cattrall headed to Toronto in 'Private Lives' before Broadway...

Los Angeles Times file photo Update – Signe Hasso, May 11, 1941. As most people realized, this is Signe Hasso, who died in 2002 at the age of 86. Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday ......

It's hardly a surprise that the critics, who tend to view Nancy Meyers like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, will have their knives out for "It's Complicated" when it opens Christmas Day. At Rotten Tomatoes, where some of the......

Fay Kanin, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the 1958 Clark Gable-Doris Day comedy "Teacher's Pet" and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday. She was 95. In a writing career that spanned more than four...

Entering the Charlie Chaplin cottage, I stooped to avoid hitting my head. At 5 feet 8, I'm about 3 inches taller than Chaplin. (It's said the Little Tramp had the door made small so his guests would have to bow as they entered.) I was at the Charlie,...

George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills. Born in Baltimore, he...

It’s no secret that Jim Belushi likes to entertain – whether on camera, on Broadway, or playing the blues. But when Belushi went on stage one night with excruciating pain in his toe and experienced a painful performance, that’s when he...

Barbara Leaming, author of biographies of Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Rita Hayworth and Bette Davis, turned her attention in 1995 to another movie icon, Katharine Hepburn, and the result is somewhat strange. Hailed as "definitive," it recounts the...