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Noel Langley
Biography
(1911-1980)
Noel Langley was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. While under contract to MGM he was one of the scriptwriters for The Wizard of Oz. He was chosen for the job on the basis of his children’s story, The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger — a children’s classic which has seldom been out of print since it was first published in 1937. Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse is Noel Langley’s only other book for children.
Though not primarily a children’s writer, several of Noel Langley’s many filmscripts were based on favourite classics: Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1950), Scrooge (1951), Pickwick Papers (scripted & directed 1952), Ivanhoe (1952) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952).
Noel Langley was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. While under contract to MGM he was one of the scriptwriters for The Wizard of Oz. He was chosen for the job on the basis of his children’s story, The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger — a children’s classic which has seldom been out of print since it was first published in 1937. Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse is Noel Langley’s only other book for children.
Though not primarily a children’s writer, several of Noel Langley’s many filmscripts were based on favourite classics: Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1950), Scrooge (1951), Pickwick Papers (scripted & directed 1952), Ivanhoe (1952) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952).