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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).
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. Writer: Mutiny on the Bounty. Talbot Jennings was born in Shoshone, Idaho, August 25, 1894, and graduated from Nampa, Idaho High School.
- Writer
- August 25, 1894
- Talbot Jennings
- May 30, 1985
Talbot Jennings was credited for the script. Development. Paramount purchased the story by William Wright and Talbot Jennings in 1955. The story concerned five brothers and revolved around a cattle drive from Texas to Colorado. Sam Briskin was assigned as producer.
JENNINGS, Talbot. Writer. Nationality: American. Born: Shoshone, Idaho, 1905 (some sources give 1895). Education: Attended Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, M.A.; Yale Drama School, New Haven, Connecticut. Career: Author of plays No More Frontier, 1931, and This Side of Idolatry, 1933; 1935—first film as writer, Mutiny on the Bounty.
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.
Of the twenty-two scripts in this collection, only ten are by Talbot Jennings; several have no known author and may be by Jennings. The remaining scripts were possibly written by colleagues of Jennings and sent to him to critique.
