Oliver H.P. Garrett

Oliver H. P. Garrett (May 6, 1894 – February 22, 1952) was an American film director, writer, newspaperman, and rifleman. Oliver H. P. Garrett was born in Laurens County, South Carolina.By the fall of 1917 he was a rifleman who fought against the Germans, but he was wounded and won the Distinguished Service Cross. He interviewed Al Capone and Adolf Hitler in 1923 after the failed Pusch and in the early 1930s. He was a newspaperman for The Sun in the 1920s, and he was the only on board of the SS Morro Castle until his burning and sinking. He was hired by David O. Selznick after writing the final script of Gone with the Wind (1939) because Scott Fitzgerald wanted a film of conventional length.Garrett was a close friend and next-door neighbour to Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg. When Thalberg married movie star Norma Shearer, Oliver was the usher of the wedding.