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  American Legends Interviews..... Budd Schulberg -What Makes Sammy Run?
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City in 1914 and literally grew up with the film industry.
Budd Schulberg was in school in the East when the ax fell at Paramount, and he was spared some of his father's humiliation, though he never forgave Hollywood.
Budd was fired from the Samuel Goldwyn Studios where he was then working, and it was several years before he landed another screenwriting job.
www.americanlegends.com /Interviews/what_makes_sammy_run.html   (2947 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Budd Schulberg   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist.
Budd Schulberg is best known for his 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay A Face in the Crowd.
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City in 1914 but raised in Hollywood.
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 Vox of Dartmouth - Rauner Library Acquires Budd Schulberg '36 Papers - 12/04/06
Schulberg was born in 1914, the son of B.P. Schulberg, who headed Paramount Pictures, and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe.
Schulberg, faced with the prospect of fllisting, and disillusioned with the party, agreed to be a "friendly witness" and named so-called Communist sympathizers.
Schulberg's work with issues of social justice and civil rights is also well-known through a series of writing workshops he initiated in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles after the riots of 1965.
www.dartmouth.edu /~vox/0607/1204/shulberg.html   (891 words)

  
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Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist.
Budd Schulberg is best known for his 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run, his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall, his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront, and his 1957 screenplay A Face in the Crowd.
Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then went on to Dartmouth College, where he was actively involved in the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine.
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 Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg won an Oscar for his screenplay of On the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan.
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City in 1914 but raised in Hollywood.
Schulberg took the title of the book from the famous saying, "the bigger they are, the harder they fall," commonly attributed to the boxer Robert Fitzsimmons.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /schulbe.htm   (2325 words)

  
 Dartmouth News - Dartmouth acquires Budd Schulberg '36 papers - 11/21/06
Thanks in part to his life-long connections to Hollywood insiders, Schulberg returned to Dartmouth in 1939 with F. Scott Fitzgerald to collaborate on a screenplay for a film set at Dartmouth's Winter Carnival, a project from which Fitzgerald was ultimately fired for heavy drinking.
Schulberg, faced with the prospect of fllisting, compounded by his own disillusionment with the Party, agreed to be a "friendly witness" and named Communist sympathizers.
Provost Barry Scherr said, "Budd Schulberg is both an alumnus and an important figure in the world of the arts, and so we had a special interest in obtaining his papers.
www.dartmouth.edu /~news/releases/2006/11/21a.html   (1019 words)

  
 Budd Schulberg  -  Bentley Publishers - Automotive Books and Repair Manuals
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City in 1914, the son of film pioneer B.P. Schulberg, and was raised in Hollywood.
Following the success of his first novel, Schulberg served in the Navy throughout World War II and was in charge of photographic evidence at the Nuremburg Trials.
All of Schulberg's novels deal, in some way, with the issue of sudden success or failure and its effect on the individual.
www.bentleypublishers.com /author.htm?authorId=64   (591 words)

  
 THE HARDER THEY FALL. Budd Schulberg. 1st Printing, 1947 :: Rare Book Consignments
Schulberg is the only nonfighter to receive the Living Legend of Boxing Award from the World Boxing Association.
The son of the Hollywood motion-picture producer Benjamin Percival ("B.P.") Schulberg (1892-1957), who for many years was production chief at Paramount Studios, Budd Schulberg grew up in Hollywood and became a "reader" and then a screenwriter after completing his education at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1936.
In the 1960's Schulberg helped establish the Douglass House Watts Writers Workshop in the Watts district of Los Angeles after the riots there, and in 1971 he founded the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York City.
www.upsoar.com /bookconsignments/inhouse/schulberg   (452 words)

  
 Screenwriter Budd Schulberg, 90, reminisces on making ‘Waterfront’
This Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s 1954 “On the Waterfront”; opens for an anniversary week at Film Forum, in the way it should be seen, on the big screen, with everything in Boris Kaufman’s photography painstakingly restored from the original negative along with Leonard Bernstein’s score.
Budd’s first novel, completed at the age of 26, had made the deepest of imprints on a whole generation, and certainly on me.
Schulberg had not seen “Truckline Cafe,” the play in which a young Brando had made such a vivid first impression, but he had seen “A Streetcar Named Desire,” the play that certified Brando’s brilliance.
www.thevillager.com /villager_79/screenwriterbuddschulberg.html   (2259 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: On the Boxing Front: Writer Budd Schulberg on Contenders and Pretenders
Budd Schulberg grew up loving to write and loving boxing, and being able to put the two together in almost perfect combination helped bless his life and made ours better, too.
Schulberg and Povich recalling their fine times at the fights, sharing their joy in life, was itself a meeting of heavyweights.
Schulberg contrasted the absence of manners to a moment before the first Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight in 1936.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A18299-2002Jun8?language=printer   (935 words)

  
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Schulberg and his literary works have been deeply influenced by the pressure of both his father's position and his mother's cultural expectations.
Schulberg began to love boxing at the age of twelve, when his father took him to the fights at the Hollywood Legion.
Schulberg continued to write incorporating boxing into much of his work, including the novel, The Harder They Fall; the nonfiction book, Loser and Still Champion ; and the character of Terry Malloy from the novel Waterfront, which was adapted into the author's best-known and most acclaimed film, On the Waterfront.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/schulberg_budd_ca1.htm   (1149 words)

  
 Budd Schulberg - Definition, explanation
Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914) is a screenwriter and novelist.
In 1950 Schulberg published a novel, The Disenchanted, about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career.
In 1965, after a devastating riot had ripped apart the fabric of the Watts community in Los Angeles, Schulberg formed the Watts Writers Workshop as an attempt to ameliorate frustrations and bring artistic training to the economically impoverished district.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/bu/budd_schulberg.php   (280 words)

  
 Budd Schulberg - On the Waterfront - Writers Guild of America, East, AFL-CIO, WGAE, WGA East, Movie Scripts   (Site not responding. Last check: )
SCHULBERG: I was basing the story on Local 824, it was called the pistol union because of the frequency with which they used pistols.
SCHULBERG: It was more talking out the problems and saying, "If we have a love story, how do we...." And he would ask me good leading questions that would help me to think it out more clearly.
SCHULBERG: The "Christ on the waterfront, Christ is in the union" scene.
www.wgaeast.org /features/waterfront.html   (6024 words)

  
 About authors from around the world » BUDD SCHULBERG   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Budd Schulberg won an Oscar for his screenplay of On the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan.
Budd Schulberg was born in New York City in 1914 but raised in Hollywood.
Schulberg took the title of the book from the famous saying, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall,” commonly attributed to the boxer Robert Fitzsimmons.
authors.stealthsettings.com /budd-schulberg.html   (2368 words)

  
 huac   (Site not responding. Last check: )
What Makes Sammy Run by Bud Schulberg is especially relevant because it deals with the Guild, fllisting and the decisions concerning whether or not to give in to anti-Communist pressures, but it was written by a man who would ten years later testify before the House Committee as a friendly witness.
The same problem that Budd Schulberg himself had with the Party at the very time he was writing this novel.
When Schulberg was named by Richard Collins, he sent a telegram to the House Committee in which he offered to cooperate with it "in any way I can"(source 33.
www.stud.hum.ku.dk /rikkebj/huacsammy.htm   (1160 words)

  
 FAMED FILM WRITER BUDD SCHULBERG ENDORSES PORTER - 4/27/2006   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Budd Schulberg received an Academy Award in 1954 for the screenplay of "On the Waterfront" which won a total of eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director (Elia Kazan), Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint).
Other noted Schulberg screenplays include "A Face in the Crowd," in which both Andy Griffith and Lee Remick made their cinematic debuts, and the Humphrey Bogart classic "The Harder They Fall" about corruption in boxing.
Schulberg's endorsement follows closely on the heels of Metropolitan Opera legend Patrice Munsel's endorsement of Porter.
www.politicspa.com /pressreleasedetailed.asp?id=2861   (285 words)

  
 The Priest Who Made Budd Schulberg Run: On the Waterfront and Jesuit Social Action
When best-selling author Budd Schulberg told the Rev. John M. Corridan, S.J., in 1949 that he wanted to write a screenplay about corruption on the New York waterfront, the fast-talking, chain-smoking labor priest was dismissive.
Schulberg said he read the articles with horrified amazement and later saw firsthand that Johnson’s description was right on.
Many workers were forced to choose, as Schulberg had Brando’s character choose in the film, between honoring their fear or their faith, their self-interest or their self-respect.
www.fordham.edu /Campus_Resources/Public_Affairs/Inside_Fordham/Inside_Fordham_Archi/May_2003/News/The_Priest_Who_Made__11100.asp   (994 words)

  
 What Makes Sammy Run? Summary
Its principal character, Sammy Glick, is, in Schulberg's words, "about as unpalatable a character as ever came down the pike"--a Hollywood type who rises from newspaper of...
Budd Wilson Schulberg was born in New York City, the son of Benjamin P. and Adeline (Jaffe) Schulberg.
Budd Schulberg predicted in 1950 that he would be remembered primarily as "the writer who reversed the usual process: started in Hollywood and worked East." It was an accurate forecast in that Schulberg's name most often surfaces in connection with the c...
www.bookrags.com /What_Makes_Sammy_Run?   (202 words)

  
 Budd the wiser | Sport | The Observer
Budd Schulberg is a somebody all right and at 88 years old has more class than Park Avenue.
Schulberg's addiction to fights and fighters was inherited from his father, who knew and revered 'The Great Benny Leonard', as the world lightweight champion was always referred to in the Schulberg household.
In On the Waterfront, his exposé of trade union corruption in the docks, Schulberg was able to combine several sporting passions with the deep-rooted sense of injustice instilled in him by his liberal mother, Adeline.
observer.guardian.co.uk /osm/story/0,6903,849771,00.html   (3144 words)

  
 Bud Schulberg
Schulberg held left-wing views and was a member of the Communist Party (1937-40).
The House of Un-American Activities Committee and the courts during appeals disagreed and all were found guilty of contempt of congress and each was sentenced to between six and twelve months in prison.
When Schulberg heard the news he sent a telegram to the HUAC offering to provide evidence against former members of the Communist Party.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAschulberg.htm   (676 words)

  
 When labor ruled the docks
This Friday, Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s 1954 “On the Waterfront”; opens for an anniversary week at Film Forum, in the way it should be seen, on the big screen, with everything in Boris Kaufman’s photography painstakingly restored from the original negative along with Leonard Bernstein’s score.
Schulberg will be at the Houston Street theater to say a few things, answer a few questions, opening night.
Kazan and Schulberg, who had paid their own way out to California and were running out of money, were also running out of hope.
www.downtownexpress.com /de_78/whenlaborruledthedocks.html   (2016 words)

  
 Budd Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
Schulberg has a ferocious knowledge of Hollywood, and his satiric portraits of Milgrim, the producer, and Al Harper, the agent, are sharp.
Schulberg, best known for On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd, wrote a relentless expose of the fight racket 50 years ago--a celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication.
Labor Relations: Striking a Balance, 1st Edition, by John Budd presents labor relations as a system for striking a balance between the employment relationship goals of efficiency, equity, and voice, and between the rights of labor and management.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Budd   (1282 words)

  
 Budd Schulberg Papers
Citations should be as follows: Budd Schulberg Papers, Box #, used by permission of the Princeton University Library.
Budd Schulberg (1914-) predicted in 1950 that he would be remembered as "the writer who reversed the usual process: started in Hollywood and worked East." He grew up in Hollywood, the son of film mogul B. Schulberg.
In addition to Hollywood themes, Schulberg's work has concentrated on larger social issues such as union racketeering, abuse of the public trust, and the moral costs of American success.
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/schulberg.html   (1284 words)

  
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Budd Schulberg was born March 27, 1914, in New York City, New York.
Budd graduated from Dartmouth College in 1936, cum laude.
Schulberg's first job was as boxing editor for Sports Illustrated.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/schulberg_budd_ca2.htm   (327 words)

  
 IBHOF / Bill Gallo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born Budd Wilson Schulberg in New York City on March 27, 1914.
One of the most celebrated contemporary American authors, Schulberg has achieved fame as a novelist, playwright, short story writer, publicist and screenwriter during his 60-year career.
After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1936, Schulberg became a screenwriter and continued to pen short stories, which were published in Liberty, Colliers, and The Saturday Evening Post.
www.ibhof.com /schulberg.htm   (269 words)

  
 Backlot Film Festival Honors Budd Schulberg
This year famed director Budd Schulberg, is honored by the Backlot Film Festival for his time and work in the industry.
Schulberg directed film gems like On the Waterfront, which helped propel Marlon Brando and bestow an academy award to Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint.
At over 90 years old, Budd seemed every bit of the sweet old man that he is. And his acknowledgment of the time, the years, the blood, the sweat he has put in to the industry is nothing but another good point on his long list of fine attributes.
lastheplace.com /2007/02/08/backlot-film-festival-honors-budd-schulberg   (1158 words)

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