Author Tommy Lightfoot Garrett’s CV is long and rich with accomplishments.  He has, in his short life, worked with many stars of the “golden era” as well as a number of today’s well-known entertainers.

He is a contributing editor, an editorial board member and a columnist for a weekly newspaper called Canyon News in Beverly Hills.  As well, Tommy is a columnist and editorial advisor to San Francisco Newspaper in San Francisco.  His column, On the Industry, appears in both newspapers and is the most widely read column in Los Angeles.  

Garrett is also a television host with his own show, a syndicated series called “Hollywood Classics.”  Internationally, Garrett can be heard once a week on Australia’s number one radio show with that country’s most popular radio and TV personality, Ernie Sigley.  Garrett’s part of that show is called “Hollywood News with Tommy Garrett,” which continues to be very well received by the audience and grows in popularity each week.  

In 2007, Garrett made his national television debut on the Home and Garden Channel with friends Rachelle and Ed Begley Jr. on their show, “Living with Ed.”  Other scripts are being sent to Garrett regularly.  

A prolific author himself, Garrett wrote a book about his friend, movie legend Joan Fontaine, called, “Letters from a Known Woman.”  He has several books in the works about other famous stars.  He is currently working on an upcoming nationally syndicated radio show based on the classic-era movies and the stars of those films to be called “Hollywood Classics Radio.”  

A consultant on countless television and movie projects, Garrett gives lectures and speeches to schools and universities and other groups.  As a Hollywood historian, his lectures always end with lengthy and lively Q&A sessions, proving once again that the old films and the stars in them have not been forgotten by anyone of any age.

His new book, So, You Want to be in Pictures, is a new-styled celebrity biographical series that will feature some of the greatest movie stars in history, but will also chronicle the lives of some Television stars, stage stars and those enduring figures that we are still fascinated by. This book was a labor of love for the author.  This book is filled with personal anecdotes, stories in first, second and third person, but also one that tries to explain why people choose to become idols in the entertainment industry and how it rips some of them apart from their families, their friends and sometimes their own souls. But overall, it's an uplifting book that admires and showcases the positive attributes of stars like: Henry Fonda, Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Jane Wyman, Deanna Durbin, Simone Simon, Phyllis Diller, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, John Wayne, Eartha Kitt, Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Don Rickles, Judy Garland, Jane Powell, Bob Hope, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Doris Day, Tab Hunter, Clint Walker, Montgomery Clift, Debbie Reynolds, Loretta Young, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sheridan, Luise Rainer, Beverly Garland, Rex Reason, Yul Brynner, Glenn Ford, Ann Blythe, Patricia Neal, Eva Marie Saint, Eileen Fulton, Bob Barker, Ronald Reagan, Clarice Taylor, Ruta Lee, Joan Collins, Charles Bronson, Rhonda Fleming, Anna Lee, Darlene Conley, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier, Lena Horne, Vincent Price, Olivia deHavilland, Boris Karloff and Sidney Poitier. So, You Want To Be In Pictures is the first in a series of four books on the subject of Hollywood Icons. It is a good read, filled with entertaining stories of the great actors and actresses of today and yesterday.

Garrett resides in Beverly Hills, California, and also has a home in Virginia, where in his spare time he raises exotic poultry.