Career Highlights: The Good Earth, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Sons of Katie Elder
First Major Screen Credit: Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Biography
Screenwriter Talbot Jennings started out as a playwright following studies at Harvard, and the Yale Drama School. Later MGM head Irving Thalberg invited him to work for his studio. Jennings accepted and went on to work on such distinguished scripts as Mutiny on the Bounty (for which he earned an Oscar nomination), The Good Earth, Anna and the King of Siam and The Black Rose. He later worked on television scripts for such series as 77 Sunset Strip. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide