Thomas Lennon

Background

Thomas Lennon was the son of John Lennon, a wholesale grocer, born in Ireland in 1847, and Mary Lennon.

Career

Thomas was a World War I veteran, according to the 1930 United States Census. Lennon wrote two screenplays with men later part of the: Secrets of a Nurse (1938) with Lester Cole, about a nurse whose duties lead her to evidence of corruption in professional prize-fighting We Go Fast (1941) with Adrian Scott, a B-movie comedy Lennon was the writer of Jacaré, for which Clyde East. Elliott, Charles East. Ford and James Dannaldson shot some 260,000 feet of film on the lower reaches of the Amazon River in Spring 1942. The group spent three and a half months at Para, at the mouth of the Amazon, usually within a day"s journey of the city, so that they could return to civilization for the night.

The company"s most primitive adventure occurred on Marajó Island, at the mouth of the Amazon, where they spent four weeks.

They ran out of imported food and had to subsist for five days on moldy doughnuts filled with small worms and on chickens which seemed to be 90 per cent vulture. In 1942 Lennon wrote a play about William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, The Truth About Annual

In 1944 Lennon wrote a screen adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson play, Knickerbocker Holiday. Thomas and Margaret Lennon had one daughter.

Thomas Lennon died in Los Los Angeles

Achievements

• In 1934 Lennon won recognition as author of The Laughing Journey, a bitter and brilliant Irish novel.