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John Farrow
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1904
Birth
Born on February 10, 1904.
TWENTIES
1927
23 Years Old
Farrow started writing while working as a sailor and became interested in screenwriting after meeting Robert J. Flaherty. In 1927 it was reported he was working on a story called The Blue Danube, set in Austria.
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1932
28 Years Old
He also compiled an English-French-Tahitian dictionary and wrote a novel, Laughter Ends (1933), In 1932 he went to England where he worked as a writer and assistant director on a film of Don Quixote, and briefly visited Tahiti again.
1933
29 Years Old
Farrow returned to Hollywood and re-established himself as a screenwriter. On 27 January 1933 he was arrested while dancing at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub for breach of his visa.
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THIRTIES
Although threatened with deportation in the end he was only given five years probation, before being acquitted in 1934.
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1936
32 Years Old
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.
1939
35 Years Old
Despite his flourishing career and recently having become a father for the first time, Farrow was keen to be involved in World War II. He went to Vancouver in November 1939 and enlisted in the Canadian Navy.
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He worked on anti-submarine patrols and in April 1941 was loaned to the Royal Navy and appointed to HMS Goshawk naval base in Trinidad, and served as assistant to the Senior British Naval Officer, Curaçao.
1943
39 Years Old
In July 1943 he served as technical consultant for the proposed Royal Canadian Navy show.
FORTIES
1945
41 Years Old
In May 1945 he was briefly recalled to active duty, travelling to Britain for work in connection with the Director of Special Services.
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FIFTIES
1957
53 Years Old
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In 1957, he won the Academy Award for Best Writing/Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he was nominated as Best Director for Wake Island.
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1963
59 Years Old
Died on January 27, 1963.
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