Martin and Osa Johnson - Other References

Other References

• Osa Johnson (also known as The Woman in the Safari Outfit) is a main character in the play Chamber Music by Arthur Kopit (1962).
• The animated film Up is likely to have its story based on the duo.
• In 2005 the Cairo Club Orchestra of Melbourne, Australia revived the 1932 Congorilla Fox-Trot (inspired by the Johnsons' 1932 movie Congorilla).
• Martin and Osa Johnson photographs appear in the movies Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) and Night at the Museum (2006).
• In 2010 Martin and Osa Johnson were voted one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas! People (Kansas Sampler Foundation).
• Poet Elizabeth Bishop's poem "In the Waiting Room" references a picture of Martin and Osa Johnson in a February, 1918 National Geographic she read as a child.
• Martin Johnson is sarcastically referenced in "The Baby in the Icebox," a short story by James M. Cain that was first published in the American Mercury magazine in 1932.