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Director, Writer, Actor, Producer. Born June 13, 1894 in Santa Ana, California, USA. 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 ...
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, from left: Cecil Kellaway, Lana Turner, director Tay Garnett on set, 1946 WILD HARVEST, Alan Ladd, director Tay Garnett, Dorothy Lamour on set, 1947 THE POSTMAN ...
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance. A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: William Powell, Kay Francis, Frank McHugh, Aline MacMahon. Votes: 4,437.
May 27, 2021 · Although opinions vary on the American director Tay Garnett’s auteur status, his high-spirited lowlife drama is well worth a look. Garnett (1894-1977) broke into movies writing slapstick ...
“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
Tay Garnett was an American film director and writer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in World War I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathe and began to direct films in 1928. Among his films are One Way Passage, China Seas, Eternally ...
Biography. A prolific, skillful director of adventure films, westerns and other hard-hitting fare, Tay Garnett began in films around 1920 as a writer. Becoming as a director near the end of the silent period, Garnett quickly demonstrated the narrative verve and technical competence typical of his work with the early talkie landmarks, the rough ...
