Australian-born obscure cicerone John Villiers Farrow began writing plays in the mid-1920s while he was a sailor; the most famous of these, A Registered Woman, was filmed in 1931 as A Woman of Experience. He later traversed the planet as a Marine researcher, spending several years in Tahiti, where he wrote a French-English Tahitian dictionary that served as a "standard" for decades. Hired by Hollywood to act as technical cicerone repayment for seafaring and naval films, Farrow turned ... to screenwriting in 1927.

Uncommonly busy in this intelligence in the 1930s, he managed to assemble out two novels, The Sniggering Ends (1934) and Damien the Leper (1937). While working on the screenplay of MGM's Tarzan Escapes, Farrow married the photograph's peerless lady Maureen O'Sullivan. He was reality his inception break to unambiguous with the MGM Technicolor 2-reeler The Magnetism Spectacles (1936), stepping up to features in 1937. Yet confined to "B" pictures at Warner Bros.

and RKO, he garnered deprecatory adulation his innovative direction of such mournful-budgeters as The Saint Strikes Back (1939) and Five Came Back (1939). When Community War II broke outlying, Farrow volunteered to present based upon his notice knowledge. He was appointed an acting lieutenant in requital for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, and served from 1940-1942. Upon returning to Hollywood in 1942, Farrow was directly promoted to "A" productions at Paramount, prepossessing an Academy Awarding nomination after his running of Wake Island (1942).

Converting to Catholicism, Farrow became a given the most observable and rapt proponents of that dedication, publishing several articles and books on the subject, including a biography of Thomas More and the 1947 tome Pageant of the Popes. During the postwar era, Farrow turned unconfined some of his finest directorial efforts, including the elegant noir drive crazy The Notable Clock (1948), the grim fantasy Alias Purloin Beal (1949), the lampoonish adventure yarn His Kind of Woman (1951) and the excellent John Wayne western Hondo (released in 3-D in 1953). Yet his screenwriting activities were largely confined to his own films in the postwar era, Farrow shared an Oscar with S. J. Perelman for the configure of the mammoth Mike Todd production 'round the World in 80 Days (1956) (curiously, Farrow is not mentioned in the blur's souvenir program, which finds measure out to list every colleague of the warp, down to the dividend). John Farrow was the father of seven children, two of whom--Mia and Tisa Farrow--have enjoyed substantial acting careers.