When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.

He received more than a dozen Emmy Award nominations although he never won. He went on to produce and direct many television specials with Gene Kelly Fred Astaire Donald O'Connor and many others. Garrison died on March 25 2005 in Thousand Oaks California from brain cancer.