---
name: "Talbot Jennings"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/talbot-jennings"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 August 1894"
died: "30 May 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-19T23:27:09.960983+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Talbot Jennings

Writer. Born 25 August 1894 in Shoshone. Died 30 May 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 August 1894, Shoshone
- **Died:** 30 May 1985
- **Active:** 1935–1937
- **Frequently works with:** [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 2, Romance 2, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $8m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Jennings, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2389962, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0421255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72062

## Biography

Talbot Jennings was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Shoshone, Idaho, and studied at the University of Idaho, Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama.

Jennings received Academy Award nominations for his screenplays for *Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935) and *Anna and the King of Siam* (1946). His other credits include *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), *The Good Earth* (1937), *Northwest Passage* (1940), *Knights of the Round Table* (1953) and the story for *The Sons of Katie Elder* (1965). He died in East Glacier Park, Montana, in 1985.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Good Earth* (1937), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-earth.md)
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), Fi1m 63, Adaptation — [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet.md)
- *Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mutiny-on-the-bounty.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Sons of Katie Elder* (1965), Story
- *The Naked Maja* (1958), Story
- *Gunsight Ridge* (1957), Screenplay
- *Pearl of the South Pacific* (1955), Additional Dialogue
- *Escape to Burma* (1955), Screenplay
- *Untamed* (1955), Screenplay, Story
- *Knights of the Round Table* (1953), Screenplay
- *Across the Wide Missouri* (1951), Story, Screenplay
- *The Black Rose* (1950), Screenplay
- *Landfall* (1949), Writer
- *Anna and the King of Siam* (1946), Screenplay
- *Frenchman's Creek* (1944), Screenplay
- *So Ends Our Night* (1941), Screenplay
- *Edison, the Man* (1940), Screenplay
- *Northwest Passage* (1940), Screenplay
- *Rulers of the Sea* (1939), Screenplay, Story
- *Spawn of the North* (1938), Writer
- *Conquest* (1937), Writer
- *The Good Earth* (1937), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-good-earth.md)
- *Romeo and Juliet* (1936), Adaptation — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/romeo-and-juliet.md)
- *Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935), Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/mutiny-on-the-bounty.md)
- *We Live Again* (1934), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1947: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Anna and the King of Siam*
- 1936: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Mutiny on the Bounty*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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