John Willard (playwright)

John Willard (playwright)

John Willard (born November 28, 1885, San Francisco, California, died August 30, 1942, Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright. His most famous work is "The Cat and the Canary" (1922), a play that was made into the influential silent film of the same name in 1927.

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