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Tay Garnett and Marlene Dietrich on the set of Seven Sinners (1940) Garnett's first film as a producer as well as a director was Joy of Living (1938) at RKO. He continued working with Wanger, producing and directing three of his films in the late 1930s: Trade Winds (1938), Eternally Yours (1939), and Slightly Honorable (1939).
- William Taylor Garnett, June 13, 1894, Los Angeles, U.S.
- 1920–1975
- 2
- October 3, 1977 (aged 83), Sawtell, California, U.S.
May 7, 2024 · Garnett began the decade with Seven Sinners (1940), the first of several films to feature John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich, who played, respectively, a navy officer and Bijou, the café singer who loves him.
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Oct 19, 1977 · Tay Garnett, a director whose scores of films made over a half century told stories of high adventure and action and starred many of Hollywood's best‐known names, died Oct. 4 in the Wadsworth...
Seven Sinners (1940) is a Marlene Dietrich vehicle. It is clearly designed to build on the surprise success of her sleeper hit of the year before, George Marshall's Destry Rides Again (1939). In both films, Marlene enters a rough, tough community, here a South Seas island, in Destry, a crook ridden Western town. In both films Marlene plays a ...
Marie Magdalene " Marlene " Dietrich [4] ( / mɑːrˈleɪnə ˈdiːtrɪx /, German: [maʁˈleːnə ˈdiːtʁɪç] ⓘ; 27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) [5] was a German and American actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1910s to the 1980s. [6] In 1920s Berlin, Dietrich performed on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as ...
On presenting Marlene Dietrich with the as yet unknown John Wayne, Dietrich’s famous response was, “Daddy, buy me that!” Tay was also among those assembled at a commissary lunch table when Papa Joe Kennedy announced, “One of my sons is going to be President of the United States. I haven’t yet decided which one.”
There is the atmosphere of a cheap, evil island cafe which Director Tay Garnett and Cameraman Rudy Mate have so colorfully captured; there are several exciting fights and one simply magnificent ...
