After World War II, Langley worked on many British films including the film noir They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), the remake of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951), the Alastair Sim Scrooge (1951), The Pickwick Papers (1952), Ivanhoe (1952) and the Technicolor The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). Langley began writing for films in the 1930s. He attempted to write a sequel based on The Marvelous Land of Oz using many of the concepts he had added to its predecessor, but this was never realized.īorn in Durban, South Africa, he was first an author and a successful Broadway playwright. The Wizard of Oz has become one of the best-loved films ever made. Langley is on record as saying that he hated the completed product, an opinion not borne out by the general critical and public consensus. However, his finished script for The Wizard of Oz was somewhat revised by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, revisions that Langley himself strongly objected to, but which appear in the finished film. 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. While under contract to MGM he was one of the screenwriters for The Wizard of Oz. Noel Langley (Decem– November 4, 1980) was a successful novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director.
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