Born Free Born Free Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood, and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book "Born Free". The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. "Born Free", and its musical
Mary Travers (journalist) Mary Travers (journalist) Mary Travers Murphy (born July 31, 1958) is the Executive Director of the Family Justice Center of Erie County. She was formerly a consumer affairs journalist and was part of the Action 7 news team on ABC affiliate, WKBW-TV, based in Buffalo, New York. She left that position in June 2004. Prior to joining WKBW, Travers was a reporter for WEBR. In 2005 she was elected to a four-year term as town supervisor of Orchard Park, New York. In 2009 she did not seek re-election. She is married to John Murphy, the play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo