He followed it with Five Came Back (1939), which, although a "B", became a surprise hit and received excellent reviews. RKOįarrow's tenure at RKO began well with the highly profitable The Saint Strikes Back (1939), the second in the "Saint" series and the first to star George Sanders in the lead. After making Women in the Wind (1939) he re-emerged as a contract director for RKO. He discovered a young Peggy Ann Garner.įarrow left his contract for a number of months, ostensibly to finish a book he was writing on the history of the papacy, and also due to disputes over the script of Kay Francis's Women in the Wind. On his return to Hollywood, Farrow resumed working as a B-picture director for Warners: She Loved a Fireman (1937) with Dick Foran and Ann Sheridan West of Shanghai (1937) with Boris Karloff Comet Over Broadway (1938) with Kay Francis Broadway Musketeers (1938) with Margaret Lindsay and Sheridan My Bill (1938) with Francis Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) with John Litel and Sheridan and The Invisible Menace (1938) with Karloff. Farrow finally made his directorial debut in 1937 with Men in Exile, a remake of Safe in Hell (1931).įollowing this, he accompanied his wife to Europe, where she was making A Yank at Oxford (1938), lecturing on Father Damien, about whom Farrow had written a book (published in 1937), and receiving a Papal knighthood. He signed to Warner Bros in 1936 looking to direct and was linked with a number of projects, including a foreign legion story and an adaptation of The Pit and the Pendulum. In 1930, it was announced that Farrow would direct his own story First Love but this did not materialize. He received a plum appointment to work on Tarzan Escapes (1936) but the film was subsequently rewritten and reshot. Although threatened with deportation, eventually he was given five years probation, before being acquitted of the charges the following year.Īt MGM Farrow wrote Last of the Pagans (1935), partly set in Tahiti, and directed a short, The Spectacle Maker (1934). Farrow was charged with making a false statement while entering the US, having claimed he was Romanian. On 27 January 1933, while dancing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, he was arrested for breach of his visa, as part of a general crackdown against illegal immigrants in the film industry. Return to Hollywood and arrestįarrow returned to Hollywood and re-established himself as a screenwriter. Pabst's film of Don Quixote, and briefly visited Tahiti again. He worked as a writer and assistant director on G. He compiled an English-French-Tahitian dictionary and wrote a novel, Laughter Ends (1933), In 1932 he went to England where he wrote The Impassive Footman (1932) for Basil Dean. Shadow of the Law (1930) and Seven Days' Leave (1930) (with Cooper) were for Paramount.įarrow began to work increasingly at RKO: Inside the Lines (1930) The Common Law (1931), with Constance Bennett, and a big hit A Woman of Experience (1931) with Helen Twelvetrees Britain He wrote The Bad One (1930) for United Artists. At that studio he also made The Showdown (1928), The Four Feathers (1929), The Wheel of Life (1929), A Dangerous Woman (1929) and Wolf Song (1930) with Gary Cooper. Paramount and RKOĪt Paramount Farrow worked a series of "woman's pictures" Three Weekends (1928), with Clara Bow The Woman from Moscow (1928) for Pola Negri The First Kiss (1928), with Fay Wray and Gary Cooper, and Ladies of the Mob (1929) with Bow. At Warner Bros he wrote A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) for director Lloyd Bacon. He worked for DeMille Productions, doing titles for White Gold (1927) and The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927) he also wrote the original story for The Blue Danube (1928) and the script for The Bride of the Colorado (1929). ![]() He soon established himself as a notable screenwriter. ![]() He had already earned minor recognition as a poet and writer of short stories. Re-entering the United States, allegedly by jumping ship at San Francisco, he found his way to Hollywood where from 1927 his nautical expertise brought him work as a script consultant and technical adviser. Farrow started writing while working as a sailor and became interested in screenwriting after a chance voyage in the South Seas with the film-maker Robert J.
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