Of Mice and Men (1939 film) Lennie, most notably in the final cartoon featuring Screwy Squirrel. Of Mice and Men (1939 film) Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play based on the novella of the same title by American author John Steinbeck, and starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field and Lon Chaney Jr. The supporting cast features Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery Jr. The film tells the story of two men, George and his mentally-challenged partner Lennie, trying to survive during the dustbowl of the 1930s and pursuing a dream of owning their own ranch,
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