Talbot Jennings
Talbot Jennings | |
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| Born | Talbot Lanham Jennings August 25, 1894 Shoshone, Idaho,U.S. |
| Died | May 30, 1985(aged 90) |
| Education | University of Idaho Harvard University Yale School of Drama |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1931–1965 |
Talbot Lanham Jennings(August 25, 1894 – May 30, 1985) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received twoAcademy Awardnominations for co-writing the screenplays forMutiny on the Bounty(1935) andAnna and the King of Siam(1946).
Biography[edit]
He was born in 1894 inShoshone, Idaho,his father was an Episcopal archdeacon for Idaho and Wyoming. He attended Nampa High School beforeWorld War Iin which he saw active service as anartillerymanin theU.S. Army,where he fought in five major battles.[1]
After to war he went toUniversity of Idahoand graduatedPhi Beta Kappain 1924. He was president of the Associated Students and wroteLight on the Mountains,a state history set to music. He also edited the yearbook,Gem of the Mountains,and theBlue Bucket,the English Department literary publication.
Jennings did a master's degree atHarvard University,[2]then attendedYale Drama School.[3]
Talbot wrote and co-wrote 17 screenplays includingMutiny on the Bounty,Romeo and Juliet,Anna and the King of Siam,Knights of the Round Table,The Good EarthandNorthwest Passage.[3]He wrote many screenplays for television also. A story he wrote becameThe Sons of Katie Elder(1965), and was his last film.
In the 1940 B-movieThe Devil's Pipeline,Richard ArlenandAndy Devineplay characters named Talbot and Jennings, apparently an inside joke by one of its writers.
He died atEast Glacier Park, Montana.
Plays[edit]
- No More Frontier(1931)
- This Side of Idolatry(1933)[4]
Films[edit]
- We Live Again(1934) (uncredited)
- Mutiny on the Bounty(1935)
- Romeo and Juliet(1936)
- The Good Earth(1936)
- Conquest(1937)
- Marie Antoinette(1938) – uncredited
- Spawn of the North(1938) – uncredited
- Rulers of the Sea(1939)
- Northwest Passage(1940)
- Edison, the Man(1940)
- So Ends Our Night(1941)
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point(1942) – uncredited
- Frenchman's Creek(1944)
- Anna and the King of Siam(1946)
- Landfall(1949)
- The Black Rose(1950)
- Across the Wide Missouri(1951)
- Scaramouche(1952)
- Knights of the Round Table(1953)
- Untamed(1955)
- Escape to Burma(1955)
- Pearl of the South Pacific(1955)
- Gunsight Ridge(1957)
- The Naked Maja(1958)
- 77 Sunset Strip(1959) – "Abra-Cadaver"
- The Alaskans(1959) – "Starvation Stampede", "Winter Song"
- Adventures in Paradise(1960) – "The Siege of Troy"
- The Roaring '20s(1960) – "Among the Missing"
- The Sons of Katie Elder(1965) (written in 1965[5])
References[edit]
- ^TALBOT JENNINGS, 1894-1985University of Idaho Library.Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^"Talbot Jennings. Scripts, 1926–1960".Library Archives.University of Idaho.Retrieved21 January2018.
- ^ab"Talbot Jennings, 90; Ex-Screenwriter".LA Times.June 9, 1985.Retrieved21 January2018.
- ^"This Shakespeare Business".The Christian Science Monitor.Nov 20, 1933. p. 8.
- ^THOMAS M. PRYOR (February 10, 1955). "M-G-M TO FINANCE 2 SELZNICK FILMS: Studio Also Will Distribute First Hollywood Ventures of Producer Since 1948".The New York Times.p. 27.
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