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Noel Langley
Born
(1911-12-25)25 December 1911
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Died
4 November 1980(1980-11-04) (aged 68)
Desert Hot Springs, California, United States
Nationality
American
Occupations
novelist
playwright
screenwriter
director
Years active
1935–1980
Noel Langley (25 December 1911 – 4 November 1980) was a South African-born (later naturalised American) novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. He wrote the screenplay which formed the basis for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and is one of the three credited screenwriters for the film. His finished script for the film was revised by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, the other credited screenwriters. Langley objected to their changes and lamented the final cut upon first seeing it, but later revised his opinion. 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 released.[1]
^Michael Gessel. "Langley's Screenplay for Wizard of Oz Sequel Discovered." The Baum Bugle 42:1 (Spring 1998), pp 14–17.
NoelLangley (25 December 1911 – 4 November 1980) was a South African-born (later naturalised American) novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director...
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process used in big-budget Hollywood films of the era. Film screenwriter NoelLangley is credited with the idea. In the MGM film, an adolescent farm girl named...
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by noted cameraman Otto Heller. The script was written by playwright NoelLangley. Clem Morgan, demobilised from the Royal Air Force and unemployed after...
Dublin. Langley also appeared in the stage show Flashdance the Musical with Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Bernie Nolan and Noel Sullivan. Langley received...
Granger and Jean Simmons. Based on a storyline written by Granger and NoelLangley, it was both directed and produced by Harold French. According to Robert...
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My Son, a gripping family drama written in 1947 in collaboration with NoelLangley. Morley played the central role of Arnold Holt, but in the disappointing...
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