Noel Langley
Playwright, Film writer
1911 – 1980
Who was Noel Langley?
Noel Langley was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. While under contract to MGM he was one of the screenwriters 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. 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. Langley is on record as saying that he hated the completed product, an opinion not borne out by the general critical and public consensus. The Wizard of Oz has become one of the best-loved films ever made. 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.
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1911
Durban - Nationality
- United States of America
- South Africa
- Profession
- Died
- Nov 4, 1980
Desert Hot Springs
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on July 23, 2013
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