[2] He was a newspaperman for The Sun in the 1920s,[2] and he was the only on board of the SS Morro Castle until his burning and sinking[clarification needed].
[2] He was hired by David O. Selznick after writing the final script of Gone with the Wind (1939) because Scott Fitzgerald wanted a film[clarification needed] of conventional length.
[5] He wrote the story and dialogue for Street of Chance (1942),[6] based on the life of the gangster Arthur Rothstein and it is a remake of the 1930 film.
[8] He wrote the story for the crime drama Her Husband Lies (1937), which was adapted and was also a remake of Street of Chance, starring William Powell and Kay Francis.
[10] City Streets (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian, was adapted by Max Marcin and Garrett wrote the script.