Of Mice and Men (1939 film) it disappeared for many years at a time until the 1980s and 1990s, when it slowly appeared in revival theater houses, video and cable and earned a following of fans (both audience members and film critics) who praised the movie for its brilliant interpretation of the Steinbeck novella. Two migrant field workers in California during the Great Depression, George Milton (Burgess Meredith), an intelligent and quick-witted man (despite his frequent claims of being "not that smart"), and Lennie Small (Lon Chaney Jr.), an ironically-named man of large stature and immense strength who, due to his mental disability, has a mind
William Lennie Edinburgh. His will, with other bequests, created four Lennie bursaries at Edinburgh University, for students seeking a literary education, that were notionally loans. William Lennie William Lennie (c. 1779–1852) was a Scottish grammarian. He was the author of textbooks on English grammar, including "The Principles of English Grammar", which became a widely used textbook in British and American schools. Lennie was born circa 1779. Lennie began his career as an English teacher in Edinburgh in 1802. He authored textbooks on English grammar. His "Principles of English Grammar" was "universally used wherever the English language is spoken." In the 1830s, Peter