Уильям Тей Гарнетт: Американдық режиссер және сценарист

American film director and writer (1894–1977)

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. but also for Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Chester Conklin. For Roach, Garnett wrote Don't Park There (1924); He co wrote Broken Chains (1922) for Sam Goldwyn; The Hottentot (1922) for Thomas Ince; and That's My Baby (1926) for William Beaudine. Garnett directed some shorts, such as Fast Black (1924), Riders of the Kitchen Range (1925), and All Wool (1925), and wrote the comedy shorts Honeymoon Hardships (1925), Hold Tight (1925), Three Wise Goofs (1925), No Sleep on the Deep (1925), Salute (1925), On the Links (1925), Who's Your Friend (1925), and co wrote Frank Capra's The Strong Man (1926) and Edward Sedgwick's There You Are! (1926). For Cecil B. De Mille, he wrote The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926), Rubber Tires (1927), The Wise Wife (1927), Turkish Delight (1927),

Garnett directed and wrote Celebrity (1928), his first feature as director; and Prestige (1931). Pathé merged with RKO in 1928; under the new name, Garnett directed Oh, Yeah! (1929), Her Man (1930) starring Helen Twelvetrees, With Universal Studios, Garnett worked on The Penalty of Fame (1932), S. O. S. Iceberg (1933), and Destination Unknown (1933). With Paramount Studios, he directed the successful One Way Passage (1932). 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). 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. 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. 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). He provided a story for Columbia Studios' Cafe Hostess (1940) and directed Universal's Seven Sinners (1940), which starred Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne. He produced but not direct RKO's Unexpected Uncle (1941) and Weekend for Three (1941), and directed their 1942 film My Favorite Spy. He also directed United Artists' Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and Columbia's The Boy from Stalingrad (1942). 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. For RKO, then under the ownership of Howard Hughes, Garnett directed The Racket (1951) and One Minute to Zero (1952). Garnett travelled to England and Spain to make The Black Knight (1954), then worked on the documentary Seven Wonders of the World (1956). In 1960, he directed A Terrible Beauty in Ireland.

Garnett started directing television shows in the late 1950s with He began working in TV with Four Star Theatre Alcoa Theatre, Goodyear Theatre, Overland Trail, The Loretta Young Show, and The Untouchables. 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, He also directed Wagon Train, Naked City, Death Valley Days, Rawhide, Bonanza, Frontier Circus, and Gunsmoke. 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. 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. 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. She filed for divorce which was granted 18 September 1933 on grounds of desertion While in London, Garnett met British author and actress Helga Moray whom he married on his yacht, the Athene, in November 1934. Their son, William John "Bill" Garnett, was born in January 1942. Six months later, Moray filed for divorce on grounds of cruelty. Garnett died of leukemia at the Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital in Sawtelle, California, USA at the age of 83.