Editing Lost Horizon (1937 film) (section)

==In popular culture==
*[[Harry E. Huffman]], owner of a chain of movie theaters in downtown [[Denver]], [[Colorado]], built a replica of the [[monastery]] depicted in the film as a private residence in 1937, calling it [[Shangri-La (house)|Shangri-La]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AO5-0H9oAXEC&pg=PP190|title=Mansions of Denver: The Vintage Years 1870–1938|first=James|last=Bretz|year=2005|publisher=Pruett Publishing|isbn=978-0871089373|page=190}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSvsAAAAMAAJ&q=Shangri+La|title=Denver: Mining camp to metropolis|first1=Stephen J. |last1=Leonard|first2=Thomas Jacob |last2=Noel|year=1990|publisher=University Press of Colorado|page=158|isbn=9780870811852}}</ref>
*The 1953 short story "[[The Nine Billion Names of God]]" by [[Arthur C. Clarke]], set in a Tibetan lamasery, references the film, with the characters nicknaming the lamasery "Shangri-La", and referring to the chief lama as "Sam Jaffe".
*Author [[Harlan Ellison]] alludes to the film in a 1995 television commentary for the program ''Sci-Fi Buzz'', wherein he laments what he perceives as a prevailing cultural illiteracy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b0Mx99_U5Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/1b0Mx99_U5Q| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Harlan Ellison's Watching 55|work=YouTube|date=24 March 2014 |access-date=2 January 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*A few seconds of the film can be seen in the [[Mad Men (season 7)|''Mad Men'' Season 7]] premiere, "Time Zones" (airdate April 13, 2014), when the character [[Don Draper]] briefly watches a late-night broadcast featuring the opening [[intertitle]] while visiting his wife [[List of Mad Men characters#Megan Draper|Megan]] in California.<ref>{{cite news|work=Tom & Lorenzo: Fabulous and Opinionated|author1=Fitzgerald, Tom|author2=Marquez, Lorenzo|url=http://tomandlorenzo.com/2014/04/mad-men-time-zones/|title=Mad Men: Times Zones|date=April 14, 2014|archive-date=December 22, 2014|access-date=December 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222034136/http://tomandlorenzo.com/2014/04/mad-men-time-zones/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*A couple of scenes leading up to the plane crash are incorporated into ''[[A Wish for Wings That Work]]''.<ref>{{Cite book | title=Happy Holidays--Animated!: A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film | date=2019 | first=William D. | last=Crump | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7C6NDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA342 | access-date=2020-04-11 | page=342 | publisher=[[McFarland & Company]] | isbn=9781476672939}}</ref>
*In a [[Peanuts]] comic strip by [[Charles M. Schulz|Charles Schultz]] published [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1974/02/20 February 20, 1974], Woodstock plays trivia with Snoopy asking "Who was the pilot of the plane that took Ronald Colman to Shangri-la in 'Lost Horizon'?"