In James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon (1933), it is in the airplane belonging to the Maharaja of Chandapore that Hugh Conway and three others are taken to Tibet.
In the aeroplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are Conway, the British consul, age 37; Mallinson, his young vice-consul; an American, Barnard; and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow.
The hotel's design and atmosphere is based on its namesake mystical valley featured in James Hilton’s 1933 novel, Lost Horizon.
The Mexican-village settings were adapted from sets used in Columbia's 1937 feature film Lost Horizon.
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Director Frank Capra cast him to play the "High Lama" in his film Lost Horizon, but Anson died before filming so the role was given to Sam Jaffe.
These included Pennies from Heaven (the 1936 film starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans) and Lost Horizon (the 1937 film starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe).
Milford won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Lost Horizon (with Gene Havlick) and for On the Waterfront; he was also nominated for an Academy Award for One Night of Love (directed by Victor Schertzinger - 1934).