Thomas Lloyd Lennon[1][2][3] (May 10, 1896 – March 17, 1963) was an American screenwriter who wrote Frank Buck’s film, Jacaré, and a screen adaptation of the Maxwell Anderson play Knickerbocker Holiday.
[6] It was too artistic for Hollywood to regard seriously, so he continued in his job as copy editor in the RKO press office.
Lennon was assigned to prepare a Wheeler & Woolsey comedy but just as he was about to begin, was offered a part in Katharine Hepburn's Sylvia Scarlett.
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.
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.