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Talbot Lanham Jennings (August 25, 1894 – May 30, 1985) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received two Academy Award nominations for co-writing the screenplays for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Anna and the King of Siam (1946).
Talbot Jennings. Writer: Mutiny on the Bounty. Talbot Jennings was born in Shoshone, Idaho, August 25, 1894, and graduated from Nampa, Idaho High School.
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- August 25, 1894
- Talbot Jennings
- May 30, 1985
Jun 9, 1985 · Talbot Jennings, a screenwriter who wrote or collaborated on such films as the 1935 “Mutiny on the Bounty,” “The Good Earth,” Northwest Passage” and “The Sons of Katie Elder,” has died of cancer.
Talbot Jennings was one of Hollywood's most intelligent screenwriters, a protégé of Irving Thalberg who enjoyed a profitable career on prestigious films. Jennings specialized in historical drama and worked on the screenplays for some of the best in the genre, such as Mutiny on the Bounty, Northwest Passage, and Rulers of the Sea.
Talbot Jennings was born in Shoshone, Idaho, August 25, 1894, the son of the Episcopal archdeacon of Idaho and Wyoming. He graduated from Nampa High School. After serving in the Army in World War I, where he fought in five major battles, he attended the University of Idaho where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1924.
Talbot Jennings is known as an Screenplay, Story, Writer, Additional Dialogue, and Adaptation. Some of his work includes Mutiny on the Bounty, The Sons of Katie Elder, Knights of the Round Table, The Good Earth, Northwest Passage, Anna and the King of Siam, Across the Wide Missouri, and Romeo and Juliet.
Collection Overview. Talbot L. Jennings received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Yale University in 1930 and attended the Yale School of Drama that year. A play by him entitled "No More Frontiers" was published by Samuel French in 1931 (Yale Plays, ed. by G. P. Baker).