Born Free: A New Adventure teach the lioness how to survive in the wild. In 1960, Joy Adamson published a book called "Born Free", based on her (and her husband, George Adamson) experience raising the lioness Elsa. The book was followed by two others, "Living Free" (1961) and "Forever Free" (1963). In 1966, the first book was adapted into a movie. The film was a commercial and critical success, leading to a 1969 documentary called "The Lions are Free" and then a sequel, released in 1972 and based on the third book, but using the name of the second book. In 1974, the NBC did
Linden Travers tribute to the man who had directed her sixty years earlier. She died in Cornwall, aged 88, in 2001. Her daughter Susan Travers also became an actress. Linden Travers Florence Lindon-Travers, known professionally as Linden Travers (27 May 1913 – 23 October 2001), was a British actress. Travers was born in Sunderland, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley) and William Halton Lindon-Travers. The elder sister of Bill Travers, she attended La Sagesse, a Roman Catholic girls school in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She made her first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933. She made her West End debut the following year