Garson Kanin
…was married to his frequent collaborator, Academy Award-winning actress Ruth Gordon from 1942 to her death in 1985. In 1990, he married stage actress Marian Seldes. Kanin died in 1999, age 86, of undisclosed causes. He was a colleague of Thornton Wilder, who mentored him, and an admirer of the work of Frank Capra…