John Willard (playwright)

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John Willard (November 28, 1885, San Francisco, California – August 30, 1942, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright. His most famous work is The Cat and the Canary (1922), which was made into the influential silent film of the same name in 1927, and refilmed in 1939 starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard.^[1] The play was revived by the Berkshire Theatre in Mass. in 2013 ^[2]

External links

John Willard (I) at the Internet Movie Database at the Internet Movie Database.

v t e John Willard's The Cat and the Canary (1922)

Films	The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Cat Creeps (1930) La Voluntad del muerto (1930 Spanish) The Cat and the Canary (1939) The Cat and the Canary (1961 Swedish) The Cat and the Canary (1979)

Related	The Last Warning The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

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Name	Willard, John
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Short description	American playwright
Date of birth	November 28, 1885
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Date of death	August 30, 1942
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