Margaret Landon

Margaret Landon was an American writer who wrote the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam based on the life of Anna Leonowens. The book inspired a movie with the same name in 1946. In 1950, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II paid her to let them make a play based on her book and then made The King and I. Landon also wrote another novel called Never Dies the Dream. In 1972, Twentieth Century Fox made a television show called Anna and the King which wasn't a musical and Landon sued Fox for Copyright infringement but lost. Landon died in 1993.

References

  1. ↑ Landon, Kenneth Perry (1968) [1939]. Siam in transition : a brief survey of cultural trends in the five years since the Revolution of 1932. London: Oxford Univ. Press. OCLC 716314024.
  2. ↑ Asian Reading Room (August 20, 2012). "Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands". Asian Collections. Library of Congress. Archived from the original (an illustrated guide) on October 23, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  3. ↑ Lawrence Meyer, 'Court And "The King"', Washington Post, November 21, 1972, p. B2
  4. ↑ Landon v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 384 F. Supp. 450 (S.D.N.Y. 1974), in Donald E. Biederman, Edward P. Pierson, Martin E. Silfen, Janna Glasser, Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries, 5th edition, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2006, pp. 349–356