| 词条 | Oliver H.P. Garrett |
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| name = Oliver H.P. Garrett | birth_date = {{birth date|1894|05|06}} | birth_place = New Bedford, Massachusetts, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1952|02|22|1894|05|06}} | death_place = New York City, US | occupation = Film director, writer, newspaperman, rifleman }} Oliver H.P. Garrett (May 6, 1894 – February 22, 1952) was an American film director, writer, newspaperman, and rifleman. BiographyOliver H.P. Garrett was born in Laurens County, South Carolina.[1] By the fall of 1917 he was a rifleman who fought against the Germans, but he was wounded and won the Distinguished Service Cross.{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=33}} He interviewed Al Capone and Adolf Hitler in 1923 after the failed Pusch and in the early 1930s.{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=33}} He was a newspaperman for New York Sun in the 1920s,{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=33}} and he was the only on board of the SS Morro Castle until his burning and sinking.{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=33}} He was hired by David O. Selznick after writing the final script of Gone with the Wind (1939) because Scott Fitzgerald wanted a film of conventional length.{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=34}} Garrrett was a close friend and next-door neighbour to Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg.{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=34}} When Thalberg married movie star Norma Shearer, Oliver was the usher of the wedding.{{sfn|Bryer|Margolies|Prigozy|2012|p=34}} CareerHe directed and wrote the screenplay for Careful, Soft Shoulder (1942).[2] The script employs a first-person narrative and his direction is not imaginative and use a first-person camera.[3] He wrote the story and dialogue for Street of Chance (1942),{{sfn|Kear|Rossman|2012|p=38}} based on the life of the gangster Arthur Rothstein and it is a remake of the 1930 film.{{sfn|Neste|2017|p=152}} According to Louella O. Parsons, "Oliver H.P. Garrett has written a thriling story, but even so, much of the credit must go to John Cromwell, who directed the story with finesse and with a fine regard for detail.[4] He wrote the story for the crime drama Her Husband Lies (1937), which was adapted and was also a remake of Street of Chance, starring William Powell and Kay Francis.{{sfn|Neste|2017|p=152}} He wrote the screenplay and the dialogue of For the Defense (1930),{{sfn|Kear|Rossman|2012|p=38}} and Scandal Sheet (1931).{{sfn|Kear|Rossman|2012|p=51}} The Texan (1930) was based on an adaption of the story The Double-Eyed Deceiver.[5] City Streets (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian, was adapted by Max Marcin and Garrett wrote the script.[6][7] He wrote the screenplay for The Man I Married (1940).[8] Filmography{{columnslist|
}} References1. ^{{cite book |last=Garrett |first=Edward Ray |title=Garrett: 1000 years from Normandy |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=qQ1MAAAAMAAJ |publisher=E.R. Garrett |year=1989 |page=39}} 2. ^{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John |title=Memorable Films of the Forties |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=3r3u4cMNltUC&pg=PA40 |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2004 |page=40 |isbn=9781411614635}} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Reid |first=John Howard |title=Hollywood's Classic Comedies Featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour Or Screwball Fun! |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=r3pgm7XPmgEC&pg=PA49 |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2004 |page=49 |isbn=9781430314875}} 4. ^Parsons, Louella O., Los Angeles Examiner, February 21, 1930 5. ^{{cite book |first=Roy |last=Kinnard |first2=Tony |last2=Crnkovich |title=The Films of Fay Wray |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=eyOCpuGkuykC&pg=PA44 |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=January 7, 2013 |page=44 |isbn=9781476604152}} 6. ^{{cite book |last=Thomson |first=David |title="Have You Seen . . . ?" |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=OfpFCblxobkC&pg=PA171 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |date=October 14, 2008 |page=171 |isbn=9780307270528}} 7. ^{{cite book |last=Hammett |first=Dashiell |title=The Hunter and Other Stories |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=xHvGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA187 |publisher=Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |date=November 4, 2013 |page=187 |isbn=9780802121585 |editor-first=Julie |editor-last=Rivett |editor-first2=Richard |editor-last2=Layman}} 8. ^{{cite book |last=Alpers |first=Benjamin L. |title=Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture: Envisioning the Totalitarian Enemy, 1920s–1950s |url=https://books.google.es/books?id=uroiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA368 |publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press |date=October 16, 2003 |page=368 |isbn=9780807861226}} Bibliography
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