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William Taylor "Tay" Garnett (June 13, 1894 – October 3, 1977) was an American film director, writer, and producer. He made nearly 50 films in various genres during his 55-year career, The Postman Always Rings Twice and China Seas being two of the most commercially successful.
Tay Garnett. Director: China Seas. Following his service as a naval aviator in WW I, Tay Garnett entered films in 1920 as a screenwriter. After a stint as a gag writer for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach he joined Pathe, then the distributor for both competing comedy producers, and in 1928 began directing for that company.
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In the audience was the venerable Frank Borzage, director of such classic Hollywood films as A Farewell to Arms, History Is Made at Night and Three Comrades. (Tone had dragged the director of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Tay Garnett, as far as the Hollywood airport, but Garnett said he had to make a phone call and missed the plane.
“Tay Garnett… was thin, laughing, rugged-featured. Like Hitchcock, his film career began in title-writing for silent films. As nearly all his colleagues of the Silents, he was athletic, a flyer, an adventurer, like them, he was an intellectual without wanting to be.” François Truffaut
Apr 26, 2019 · Finding Franchot is a blog dedicated to the life and work of Oscar-nominated actor Franchot Tone. The author is a Franchot aficionado who has been blogging her research of Franchot Tone since April 2015.
Shepard Traube, Tone’s old director in “A Thousand Summers,” saw the same reassuring fire in his friend’s eyes when he found himself seated opposite the old trouper on a train bound for Waterford, Connecticut.
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Tay Garnett. Director: China Seas. Following his service as a naval aviator in WW I, Tay Garnett entered films in 1920 as a screenwriter. After a stint as a gag writer for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach he joined Pathe, then the distributor for both competing comedy producers, and in 1928 began directing for that company.
