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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 Pathé and began to direct films in 1928. Among... his films are One Way Passage , China Seas , Eternally Yours , Seven Sinners , Cheers for Miss Bishop , The Cross of Lorraine , and Bataan . He is best known as the director of the 1946 thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice with John Garfield and Lana Turner. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court with Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming was also well-received. Garnett also worked in radio as a writer, director and narrator. He created a show titled "Three Sheets to the Wind" 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. After directing one of Loretta Young's last theatrical films Cause for Alarm! , Garnett travelled to the United Kingdom in the early 1950s for a few films.
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