Born Free of three cubs. The Adamsons made an agreement not to handle the cubs, in contrast to the way they did with Elsa. The film's credits list lions and lionesses Boy, Girl, Henrietta, Mara, Ugas, and "the Cubs". The film reunited the real life couple Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as a couple first seen together in "The Smallest Show on Earth" in 1957. George Adamson served as chief technical advisor on the film and discusses his involvement in his first autobiography, "Bwana Game" (UK title, 1968), known in the US as "A Lifetime with Lions". According to Ben Mankiewicz, who
Bill Travers Heritage" (1960) on TV, then returned to Britain where he made a British monster film, "Gorgo" (1961). Travers and McKenna reteamed on a thriller, "Two Living, One Dead" (1961). He then starred in a race car drama for MGM, "The Green Helmet" (1961), and a comedy with Spike Milligan, "Invasion Quartet" (1961). He was in a Broadway production of "A Cook for Mr General" (1961). Travers starred in a TV adaptation of "Lorna Doone" (1963). He returned to Hollywood to do some episodes of "The Everglades", "Rawhide" ("Incident at Two Graves") and "Espionage" ("A Camel to Ride"). Back on Broadway