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John Farrow(1904-1963)
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John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, fromA Sailor's Sweetheart (1927)through Tarzan Escapes (1936). He married Tarzan's Jane,Maureen O'Sullivan, in 1936. He began directing in 1937 (Men in Exile (1937) andWest of Shanghai (1937)). He was injured while serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy in World War II. After that he converted to Catholicism and wrote a biography of Thomas More, a history of the Papacy, a Tahitian/English dictionary and several novels. He collaborated in the writing of several of his films and shared the Academy Award forAround the World in 80 Days (1956).
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