Noel Langley (December 25, 1911 – November 4, 1980) was a successful 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. is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ...

Born in Durban, South Africa, he was first an author and a successful Broadway playwright. Langley began writing for films in the 1930s. After World War II, Langley worked on many British films including the film noir They Made Me a Fugitive (1947), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951), Scrooge (1951), Pickwick Papers (1952), Ivanhoe (1952) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). Durban is a vibrant cosmopolitian city in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ... For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known as the [[. In East Asia, the rise of militarism occurred. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... They Made Me A Fugitive is a 1947 British film noir set in postwar England. ... Cover of 1999 re-issue by Oxford Worlds Classics Tom Browns Schooldays, first published in 1857, is a novel by Thomas Hughes, set at a public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a student there. ... Scrooge (1951) is one of the best-known and most acclaimed film adaptations of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. ... The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. ... For other uses, see Ivanhoe (disambiguation). ... The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, first published in 1894. ...

Noel Langley continued to write novels and plays throughout his life. He also wrote short stories for the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. There have been many publications called the Saturday Evening Post; several were/are local British newspapers. ...

Langley died in 1980 in Desert Hot Springs, California. Desert hot springs redirects here. ...

Partial bibliography

• Cage Me a Peacock, Arthur Barker, 1935. A humorous historical novel set in Rome at the end of the Tarquin era.
• The Land of Green Ginger, Arthur Barker, 1936. A book for children, concerning Abu Ali, the son of Aladdin.
• 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, 1937. It 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• An Elegance of Rebels, a play in three acts, Arthur Barker, 1960.
• The Loner, Triton Books, 1967.
• A Dream of Dragonflies, Macmillan, 1971.
• The Return, Kessinger Publishing, 2005. A collection of Saturday Evening Post short stories.
• The Pathetic History of Desbarollda, the Waltzing Mouse, Durrant Publishing, 2006. A new edition.