Garnett, Tay
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Film.
Working name of US film director and author William Taylor Garnett (1884-1977), whose Lost Race novel, Man Laughs Back (1935), is set deep in the South American jungle, where a native civilization, descended from the Incas, is instrumental in keeping a foolhardy surveyor (and his team of twenty-six lads) from disaster. As a director, he is best known for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); of sf interest is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1948), based on Mark Twain's novel. [JC]
William Taylor Garnett
born Los Angeles, California: 13 June 1884
died Sawtelle, California: 3 October 1977
works
- Man Laughs Back (New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935) [hb/uncredited]
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