Tay Garnett

American film director and writer (1894–1977)

Tay Garnett

Born|

William Taylor Garnett

(1894-06-13)June 13, 1894

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Died| October 3, 1977(1977-10-03) (aged 83)

Sawtell, California, U.S.

Education| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupations|

* Film director
* writer

Years active| 1920–1975
Spouses|

* Patsy Ruth Miller

(m. 1929; div. 1933)​

* Helga Moray

(m. 1934; div. 1942)​

* Mari Aldon

(m. 1953)​

Children| 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.[3][4]

## Early life

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Garnett graduated from Los Angeles High School.[3][1] He studied commercial art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before returning to California to open an advertising agency. In 1917, he joined the U.S. Navy's Aviation Corps and trained soldiers to fly at California bases during World War I.[5][6][1]

## Career

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### Early career

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After the war, Garnett entered the film industry as a gagwriter, primarily for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach,[1][7] but also for Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Chester Conklin.[8] For Roach, Garnett wrote Don't Park There (1924);[9] for Billy Bevan,[citation needed] Galloping Bungalows (1924);[10] and for Sennett, Off His Trolley (1924)[citation needed] and The Plumber (1924).[11] He co-wrote Broken Chains (1922) for Sam Goldwyn;[12] The Hottentot (1922) for Thomas Ince;[citation needed] and That's My Baby (1926) for William Beaudine.[13]

Garnett directed some shorts, such as Fast Black (1924),[14] Riders of the Kitchen Range (1925), and All Wool (1925),[9] and wrote the comedy shorts Honeymoon Hardships (1925),[15] Hold Tight (1925), Three Wise Goofs (1925),[16] No Sleep on the Deep (1925), Salute (1925), On the Links (1925),[citation needed] Who's Your Friend (1925),[10][16] The Funnymooners (1926), Puppy Lovetime (1926), Smith's Visitor (1926), and A Beauty Parlor (1926). With Stan Laurel (in his pre-Laurel and Hardy days), he made the films A Mandarin Mixup (1924), Detained (1924),[citation needed] and West of Hot Dog (1924). They co-wrote Somewhere in Wrong (1925), Twins (1925), Pie-Eyed (1925), The Snow Hawk (1925), Navy Blue Days (1925), The Sleuth (1925), and Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925).[17][18]

He adapted a 1919 play for Up in Mabel's Room (1926), which starred Marie Prevost,[19] and co-wrote Frank Capra's The Strong Man (1926)[18] and Edward Sedgwick's There You Are! (1926).[20] For Cecil B. De Mille, he wrote The Cruise of the Jasper B  (1926), Rubber Tires (1927), The Wise Wife (1927), Turkish Delight (1927),[10][11] and Skyscraper (1928). In 1927, he also wrote Getting Gertie's Garter,[1][21] Long Pants, White Gold,[21][18] and No Control.[16] Garnett joined Pathé around 1927[5] and wrote The Cop and Power in 1928.[22][10][21]

### Directing

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Garnett directed and wrote Celebrity (1928), his first feature as director;[23][5] The Spieler (1928), The Flying Fool (1929),[16] Bad Company (1931),[24][25] and Prestige (1931).[26] Pathé merged with RKO in 1928;[27] under the new name, Garnett directed Oh, Yeah! (1929), Her Man (1930) starring Helen Twelvetrees,[5] Officer O'Brien (1930),[10][16] and Panama Flo (1932).[28] With Universal Studios, Garnett worked on The Penalty of Fame (1932), S.O.S. Iceberg (1933),[29] and Destination Unknown (1933).[1][30] With Paramount Studios, he directed the successful One Way Passage (1932).[31] Garnett enjoyed further success in 1935 after moving to MGM and directing China Seas (1935). With Columbia Studios, he made She Couldn't Take It (1935).[16][2][32]

In 1935, Garnett announced the creation of his own production company and subsequently left on a year-long cruise on his yacht. The Athene carried a small number of people, including Garnett's friends Polly Ann Young and Regis Toomey, and his wife Helga. During his trip, he shot footage of the outdoors for his future productions.[33][5][34] He returned to Hollywood in October 1936[35][36] and signed with 20th Century Fox, where he made Professional Soldier (1936), Love Is News (1937), and Slave Ship (1937). He also worked on Stand-In (1937) for Walter Wanger.[37][5]

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).[38][5][39] He provided a story for Columbia Studios' Cafe Hostess (1940)[38] and directed Universal's Seven Sinners (1940), which starred Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne.[1][40] He produced but not direct RKO's Unexpected Uncle (1941) and Weekend for Three (1941),[16][41] and directed their 1942 film My Favorite Spy.[42] He also directed United Artists' Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)[43][44] and Columbia's The Boy from Stalingrad (1942).[citation needed]

At MGM, Garnett directed The Cross of Lorraine (1943) and Bataan (1943), followed by Since You Went Away (1944) and See Here, Private Hargrove (1944). He had some big hits with two Greer Garson films, Mrs. Parkington (1944) and The Valley of Decision (1945), then made his best-known film The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), starring John Garfield and Lana Turner.[1][10] At Paramount, he made Wild Harvest (1947); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949), which starred Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming;[45][10] and the Mickey Rooney film The Fireball (1950), which he also co-wrote. He went back to MGM to direct one of Loretta Young's last theatrical films, Cause for Alarm!, in 1951, and the adventure film Soldiers Three (1951).[46][3] For RKO, then under the ownership of Howard Hughes, Garnett directed The Racket (1951)[47] and One Minute to Zero (1952). Garnett travelled to England and Spain to make The Black Knight (1954),[10][48] then worked on the documentary Seven Wonders of the World (1956). In 1960, he directed A Terrible Beauty in Ireland.[1] He directed a feature, Guns of Wyoming (1963), with Robert Taylor.[49] Garnett wrote, produced and directed The Delta Factor (1970). His last two films were Challenge to Be Free (1975) and Timber Tramps (1975).[50][51][10]

### Television

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Garnett started directing television shows in the late 1950s with He began working in TV with Four Star Theatre[52] and Main Street to Broadway (1953).[16] When he returned from the UK, he increasingly focused on television,[3][4] directing such shows as Screen Directors Playhouse, which he also co-wrote,[53][54] Alcoa Theatre, Goodyear Theatre, Overland Trail,[citation needed] The Loretta Young Show, and The Untouchables.[52] Other shows he worked on included The Deputy, Whispering Smith, 87th Precinct, The Tall Man, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Beachcomber, The Loner, The Legend of Jesse James,[55] and Riverboat,[56] He also directed Wagon Train, Naked City, Death Valley Days, Rawhide, Bonanza,[52] Laramie,[57] Frontier Circus, [citation needed] and Gunsmoke.[55][1][52]

### Other work

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While he primarily worked on films and television, Garnett occasionally worked in other areas of the art world. In 1930, he wrote a stage play called All That Glitters with Zelda Sears.[58] In 1942, he created the NBC Red comedy-detective radio program Three Sheets to the Wind (1942), which starred John Wayne as Dan O'Brien, an American private eye posing as a drunk on a luxury liner sailing from England in 1939, and Helga Moray, which ran for six months at 11:30pm Sunday nights.[59][60][61] The show was intended by Garnett to be the pilot for a film, though the film was never made. A demonstration episode of the radio show with Brian Donlevy in the leading role exists. Wayne, not Donlevy, played the role throughout the series run on NBC.[62] He published his autobiography, Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights, in 1973 and was writing a textbook at the time of his death.[2] During his career, he also did some government films.[49][6][63]

His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled in February 1960.[3]

## Personal life

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Garnett married three actresses. First was Patsy Ruth Miller in Beverly Hills on 8 September 1929.[6][64] She filed for divorce which was granted 18 September 1933 on grounds of desertion[65][6] while she was in Vienna, Austria, and Garnett in London, England.[66] While in London,[citation needed] Garnett met British author and actress Helga Moray whom he married on his yacht, the Athene, in November 1934.[5][67][34][6] They had a second ceremony on 31 March 1935 in Yuma, Arizona, USA to safeguard her American citizenship.[68] Their son, William John "Bill" Garnett, was born in January 1942.[69] Six months later, Moray filed for divorce on grounds of cruelty.[70][71][6] Garnett then married 24-year-old Mari Aldon in London, England, on 13 August 1953. Their daughter Tiela Aldon Garnett was born in Los Angeles, USA on 25 October 1955.[72][6][73]

Garnett died of leukemia at the Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital in Sawtelle, California, USA at the age of 83.[63][6] His ashes were scattered on his Paso Robles ranch.[citation needed]

## Selected films

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Year | Title | Company | Director | Producer | Writer | Refs

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1922 | Broken Chains | Goldwyn Pictures |  |  |

| [12][2]
The Hottentot | Thomas H. Ince Productions |  |  |

| [citation needed]
1926 | That's My Baby | Paramount Pictures |  |  |

| [18][13]
Up in Mabel's Room | Christie Film Company |  |  |

| [18]
The Strong Man | Harry Langdon Corporation |  |  |

| [1][11][18]
There You Are! | MGM |  |  |

| [2]
The Cruise of the Jasper B | DeMille Pictures Corporation |  |  |

| [10][11][16]
1927 | Rubber Tires |  |  |

| [10][16]
Getting Gertie's Garter | Producers Distributing Corporation |  |  |

| [1][21]
White Gold | DeMille Pictures Corporation |  |  |

| [10][21][18]
Long Pants | Harry Langdon Corporation |  |  |

| [21][11][18]
No Control | Producers Distributing Corporation |  |  |

| [21][10][16]
The Wise Wife | DeMille Pictures Corporation |  |  |

| [21][10][11][16]
Turkish Delight |  |  |

| [21][10]
1928 | Skyscraper |  |  |

| [1][21]
The Cop |  |  |

| [21][10][16]
Power | Pathé |  |  |

| [21][22][10][11]
Celebrity |

|  |

| [1][6][5][23]
The Spieler | Ralph Block Productions |

|  |

| [10]
1929 | The Flying Fool | Pathé |

|  |

| [10][16]
Oh, Yeah! |

|  |  | [10]
1930 | Officer O'Brien |

|  |  | [10][16]
Her Man |

|  |  | [1][5][10]
1931 | Bad Company | RKO Pathé Pictures |

|  |

| [18][25][1][16][24]
1932 | Prestige |

|  |

| [10][18][26]
Panama Flo |

|  |  | [28]
Okay, America! | Universal Pictures |

|  |  |
One Way Passage | Warner Bros. |

|  |  | [1][6][5][31]
1933 | Destination Unknown | Universal Pictures |

|  |  | [1][10][30]
S.O.S. Iceberg |

|  |  | [1][6][5][10][29]
1935 | China Seas | MGM |

|  |  | [1][5][16][2]
She Couldn't Take It | Columbia Pictures |

|  |  | [1][5][16][2][32]
Professional Soldier | 20th Century Fox |

|  |  | [1][37][5][10]
1937 | Love Is News |

|  |  | [1][37][5][10]
Slave Ship |

|  |  | [1][37][5][10]
Stand-In | Walter Wanger Productions |

|  |  | [1][37][5][10]
1938 | Joy of Living | RKO Radio Pictures |

|  |  | [1][38][5][39]
Trade Winds | Walter Wanger Productions |

| [1][38][6][5][10]
1939 | Eternally Yours |

| [1][38][6][5][10]
Slightly Honorable |

| [1][38][6][5][10]
1940 | Seven Sinners | Universal Pictures |

|  |  | [1][6][10]
1941 | Cheers for Miss Bishop | Richard A. Rowland Productions |

|  |  | [1][43][10]
1942 | My Favorite Spy | RKO Studios |

|  |  | [10][42]
1943 | The Boy from Stalingrad | Columbia Pictures |

|  |  | [citation needed]
Bataan | MGM |

|  |  | [1][10][16]
The Cross of Lorraine |

|  |  | [1][10][16]
1944 | Since You Went Away | Selznick International Pictures/Vanguard Films |

|  |  | [16]
Mrs. Parkington | MGM |

|  |  | [1][6][10][2]
1945 | The Valley of Decision |

|  |  | [1][6][10][2]
1946 | The Postman Always Rings Twice |

|  |  | [1][6][10][2]
1947 | Wild Harvest | Paramount Studios |

|  |  | [45][10]
1949 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |

|  |  | [1][6][10][45]
1950 | The Fireball | Bert E. Friedlob Productions/Thor Productions |

|  |

| [1][46][10]
1951 | Cause for Alarm! | MGM |

|  |  | [1][10]
Soldiers Three |

|  |  | [1][10]
The Racket | RKO Radio Pictures |

|  |  | [47]
1952 | One Minute to Zero |

|  |  | [1][10][16]
1953 | Main Street to Broadway | Cinema Productions |

|  |  | [10][16]
1954 | The Black Knight | Warwick Film Productions |

|  |  | [1][10]
1956 | Seven Wonders of the World | Cinerama Productions Corp |

|  |  | [1][10]
1960 | A Terrible Beauty | DRM Productions/Raymond Stross Productions |

|  |  | [1][55]
1963 | Cattle King | Missouri Productions |

|  |  | [citation needed]
1970 | The Delta Factor | Medallion Television/Spillane-Fellows Productions Inc. |

| [51][50][10][18]
1975 | Challenge to Be Free | Alaska Pictures |

|  |  | [1][10][50]
Timber Tramps | Alaska Pictures/Arizona General |

|  |  | [1][10][50]

## Works

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* Garnett, Tay; Balling, Fredda Dudley (1973). Light Your Torches and Pull Up Your Tights. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. ISBN 978-0-87000-204-5.
* Garnett, Tay (1981). Portraits de Cineastes. Un Siecle de Cinema raconte par 42 metteurs en scene (in French). Paris: 5 Continents-Hatier.[4]
* Garnett, Tay; Slide, Anthony (1996). Directing: Learn from the Masters. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810830462. OCLC 925180539.

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Films directed by Tay Garnett

* The Spieler (1928)
* Celebrity (1928)
* The Flying Fool (1929)
* Oh, Yeah! (1929)
* Her Man (1930)
* Officer O'Brien (1930)
* Bad Company (1931)
* Prestige (1932)
* One Way Passage (1932)
* Okay, America! (1932)
* Destination Unknown (1933)
* S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
* China Seas (1935)
* Professional Soldier (1935)
* She Couldn't Take It (1935)
* Love Is News (1937)
* Slave Ship (1937)
* Stand-In (1937)
* Joy of Living (1938)
* Trade Winds (1938)
* Eternally Yours (1939)
* Slightly Honorable (1939)
* Seven Sinners (1940)
* Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
* My Favorite Spy (1942)
* Bataan (1943)
* The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
* Mrs. Parkington (1944)
* The Valley of Decision (1945)
* The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
* Wild Harvest (1947)
* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
* The Fireball (1950)
* Soldiers Three (1951)
* Cause for Alarm! (1951)
* One Minute to Zero (1952)
* Main Street to Broadway (1953)
* The Black Knight (1954)
* Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
* A Terrible Beauty (1960)
* Cattle King (1963)
* The Delta Factor (1970)
* Challenge to Be Free (1975)
* Timber Tramps (1975)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Czech Republic
* Spain
* Netherlands
* Korea
* Poland
* Israel

Academics|

* CiNii

Artists|

* FID

People|

* Deutsche Biographie

Other|

* IdRef
* SNAC
* Yale LUX

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