Farrow, John, 1904-1963

John Villiers Farrow was born in 1904 in Sydney, Australia, to parents Joseph Farrow and Lucy Savage. Farrow left home as a teenager, working on ships, and eventually reached the United States in 1923. By the time he settled in Hollywood in 1927, he had established a strong reputation as a short-story writer; this experience gave him easy entry to the film industry as a screenwriter and script consultant. Between 1927 and 1931, Farrow worked for several studios, including writing the sound dialogue for the Howard Hughes war film, Hell's Angels. Farrow served in the Canadian Navy during WWII, helping to write and produce films for the war effort. This, combined with his earlier experience, created opportunities for his later work as a film director, including Where Danger Lives (1950) and His Kind of Woman (1951) for Hughes' RKO Pictures. John Farrow died in Hollywood, California in 1963.

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Special Collections of the University Libraries at The Catholic University of America. John Villiers Farrow Papers. 1927-1976. Accessed December 01, 2021. https://libraries.catholic.edu/special-collections/archives/collections/finding-aids/finding-aids.html?file=farrow#idm45432480710784