# Noel Langley

Noel Langley est un scénariste, réalisateur et producteur sud-africain né le 25 décembre 1911 à Durban (Afrique du Sud), et mort le 4 novembre 1980 à Desert Hot Springs (États-Unis).

## Filmographie
### Comme scénariste

* 1936 : Secret of Stamboul
* 1937 : Le Chant du printemps (Maytime)
* 1938 : Queer Cargo de Harold D. Schuster
* 1939 : Le Magicien d'oz (The Wizard of Oz)
* 1940 : Florian
* 1941 : Unexpected Uncle
* 1947 : They Made Me a Fugitive
* 1948 : The Vicious Circle
* 1949 : Quel bandito sono io
* 1949 : Cardboard Cavalier
* 1950 : Due mogli sono troppe
* 1950 : Trio
* 1951 : Tom Brown's Schooldays
* 1952 : The Pickwick Papers
* 1952 : Ivanhoé (Ivanhoe)
* 1952 : Le Prisonnier de Zenda (The Prisoner of Zenda)
* 1953 : Les Chevaliers de la table ronde (Knights of the Round Table)
* 1954 : Our Girl Friday
* 1954 : Svengali
* 1956 : Le Roi des vagabonds
* 1956 : The Search for Bridey Murphy
* 1961 : Snow White and the Three Stooges

### Comme réalisateur

* 1952 : The Pickwick Papers
* 1954 : Our Girl Friday
* 1954 : Svengali
* 1956 : The Search for Bridey Murphy

### Comme producteur

* 1947 : They Made Me a Fugitive
* 1952 : The Pickwick Papers

## Publications

* Cage Me a Peacock, Arthur Barker, 1935. A humorous historical novel set in Rome at the end of the Tarquin era. Became the basis for a musical in 1948.
* There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us, Arthur Barker, 1936. A comic drama about English theatre life.
* Three Plays, Arthur Barker, 1936. Farm of Three Echoes, For Ever, and Friendly Relations.
* The Land of Green Ginger, Arthur Barker, 1937. A book for children, concerning Abu Ali, the son of Aladdin.
** The Land of Green Ginger was rewritten for a new edition in 1966 and again in about 1975. In 1965, New York radio station WBAI recorded and broadcast Langley reading this story. A shortened version was issued on LP and offered as a fund-raising incentive.
* So Unlike The English, William Morrow, 1937.
* The Wizard of Oz, 1939, screenplay with Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf.
* Hocus Pocus, Methuen, 1941. A humorous tale set in Hollywood.
* The Music of the Heart, Arthur Barker, 1946. A novel with a circus background.
* The Cabbage Patch, Arthur Barker, 1947. A comic drama about twenty-four hours in the life of Daisy, Lady Buckering.
* The True and Pathetic History of Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse, Lindsay Drummond, 1947. A children's book, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
* Nymph in Clover, Arthur Barker, 1948. The Lysistrata debacle retold.
* There's a Horse in My Tree, with Hazel Pynegar, Arthur Barker, 1948. A humorous book.
* Little Lambs Eat Ivy, Samuel French, 1950. A Light Comedy in Three Acts – produced 1948.
* Edward, My Son; A Play in Three Acts, with Robert Morley, French, 1948.
* Somebody's Rocking My Dreamboat, with Hazel Pynegar, Arthur Barker, 1949. A World War II novel about a group of women fleeing from England on a tramp steamer.
* The Inconstant Moon, Arthur Barker, 1949. The story of Dante and Beatrice.
* Tales of Mystery and Revenge, Arthur Barker, 1950.
* Scrooge, 1951, screenplay adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
* Cuckoo in the Dell, with Hazel Pynegar, Arthur Barker, 1951. A tale of a young Norman knight and moral idealism.
* The Rift in the Lute, also known as The Innocent at Large, Arthur Barker, 1952. An innocent boy finds a colourful, exotic world of "gay sinners" in ancient China.
* Where Did Everybody Go?, Arthur Barker, 1960. A story of a playwright.
* Snow White and the Three Stooges, 1961, screenplay with Elwood Ullman.
* An Elegance of Rebels, a play in three acts, Arthur Barker, 1960.
* The Loner, Triton Books, 1967.
* Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation, Hawthorn Books, 1968.
* A Dream of Dragonflies, Macmillan, 1971.
* The Return, Kessinger Publishing, 2005. A collection of Saturday Evening Post short stories.
* Desbarollda, the Waltzing Mouse, Durrant Publishing, 2006. A new edition.