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
Benjamin Travers Benjamin Travers Benjamin Travers, FRS (3 April 1783 – 6 March 1858) was a British surgeon. From 1857 to his death, he was the Serjeant Surgeon, a member of the Medical Household (part of the Royal Household). Benjamin Travers was born on 3 April 1783 at Cheapside, London, the second of the ten children of Benjamin Travers, a London sugar broker, and his wife Mary Spilsbury. After Cheshunt Grammar School, he was educated privately before joining his father's counting house in 1799. In August, 1800 Travers was articled for six years to surgeon Astley Cooper. In 1807 he set up