American screenwriter, playwright, actor, director, producer.
Michael Kanin's first professional employment in the entertainment industry was as a writer and actor in Catskills resort shows with his brother Garson Kanin. In 1936 while, appearing in George Bernard Shaw's Bury the Dead), he was introduced to RKO script reader, Fay Mitchell. Kanin joined RKO in 1939 and he and Mitchell married the following year. The Kanins subsequently collaborated on many projects, notably on Rhapsody (1954) and The Outrage (1964). Together, they received an Academy Award nomination for Teacher's Pet (1958). Kanin shared an Academy Award with Ring Lardner Jr. in 1942 for writing the Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film comedy Woman of the Year.
