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2. 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. [1] [2] In his later years, he focused mainly on television.
May 27, 2021 · Rewind. ‘Her Man’: A Relic of a Bygone Hollywood, Now Restored. Now streaming, this mildly racy romance, from 1930, arrived before the censorious Production Code. What really sets the film apart is...
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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Feb 21, 2020 · Margaret Talbot writes about the director Tay Garnett’s “Cause for Alarm!,” starring Loretta Young. This suburban film noir from 1951, which from a feminist lens was ahead of its time, is now...
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May 27, 2021 · Unquestionably the most down-and-dirty version of “Frankie and Johnny” ever filmed, Tay Garnett’s 1930 feature Her Man is set in a Havana bordello populated by a definitively Pre-Code, almost Bukowskian collection of drunks, drug addicts, and hookers. It is also an astonishing formal accomplishment—a film from the early sound period ...
Love Is News is a 1937 American romantic comedy film starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Don Ameche. The movie was directed by Tay Garnett and was the first film for which Power had top billing. The picture was remade in 1947 as That Wonderful Urge, with Power again and Gene Tierney .
May 7, 2024 · Tay Garnett (born June 13, 1894, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died October 3, 1977, Los Angeles) was an American director who, during a career that spanned more than four decades, worked in a variety of genres but was best known for the film-noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
