Budd Schulberg was born on March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York, USA as Seymour Wilson Schulberg. He was a writer and producer, known for On the Waterfront (1954), A Face in the Crowd (1957) and The Harder They Fall (1956). He was married to Betsy Ann Langman, Geraldine Brooks, Agnes Virginia Anderson and Virginia Ray. He died on August 5, ...
On testifying and naming names before the House Un-American Activities Committee: "I didn't especially like the [House] committee, but I didn't like the way the party was trying to take over the Screenwriters Guild - they had put four young people on the board, including me. I felt that what the party was doing secretively was very wrong - it could have been the Ku Klux Klan or the American Nazis. And nobody came out and said that Stalin was killing more people than Hitler - I resented the fact that they only defended their side."
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[on his friendly testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee] "I don't feel what some people expect me to feel. What's painful is to have believed in something that sounded so right, and that turned out the way the Soviet Union turned out. It's more the disillusionment that hurts for me."
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Young people today seem to admire Sammy [his fictional character Sammy Glick]. I do find it rather disconcerting. Once I was speaking at a college, and a young man came up afterwards and said, 'I just want to shake your hand. I'm a senior, and I've been worrying about how I'll make it in the real world. And now that I've read your book, I'm inspired.'
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Schulberg's assertion that Louis B. Mayer used to meet with a German consul in Los Angeles to discuss cuts in his studio's movies that would help their release in Nazi Germany is documented in scholar Ben Urwand's controversial 2013 book, 'The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler'.
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Schulberg's screenwriting career got of to a shaky start, due to an ill-conceived collaborative effort with F. Scott Fitzgerald on Winter Carnival (1939), a romantic comedy set in Schulberg's own alma mater. He was fired from the production by Walter Wanger half-way through shooting. In 1950, Schulberg wrote a novel, "The Disenchanted", based on his experiences with the project.
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Educated at Ivy League Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
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Uncle of Sandra Schulberg.
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The 1995 Broadway musical based on his screenplay for On the Waterfront (1954) was a flop, lasting only eight performances
Louis B. Mayer told his father, B.P. Schulberg, that his son should be deported. An exasperated B.P. replied that since Budd was a U.S. citizen raised in Hollywood, "Where the hell are you gonna deport him? Catalina Island?" Recounting the incident, Budd told journalist Cathy Seipp, "My father was a very, very intelligent man, but not as smart as Louis B. Mayer. And that remark is one of the things I think helped finish my father in Hollywood".
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John Wayne considered Schulberg's book "What Makes Sammy Run?" part of a Communist plot, as the book deals with the formation of the Writers Guild of America. In fact, Schulberg had been a Communist Party member in the 1930s, and the Communist Party USA also attacked his book. Disillusioned with communism and what the USSR had devolved into under Stalin, he appeared as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1951 and named names.
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During the Writer's Guild of America strike in 1988, Schulberg spoke at a WGA meeting, beginning his remarks by saying he was probably the only person from the original 1937 WGA council who was still on the council.
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A movie industry insider, he published the damning expose of Hollywood "What Makes Sammy Run?" in 1941, creating the greatest of all Hollywood anti-heroes, Sammy Glick. The book made him persona non grata in Hollywood for years.
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Although "What Makes Sammy Run?", his scathing look at Hollywood, was twice presented on television in New York-based productions in 1949 and 1959, and appeared on Broadway in a musical version with Steve Lawrence playing Sammy that ran for 540 performances in the 1964-1965 season, Hollywood itself has never made a version of the popular novel. Dreamworks acquired the rights to the novel from Warner Bros. for $2.6 million for a proposed version starring Ben Stiller, but that movie has yet to be green-lighted.
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Was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame as a writer in 2003, when he was 89 years old.
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Fathered his eldest daughter, Victoria Schulberg (b. 1940), with his first wife, Virginia Ray.
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Fathered his two elder sons, Stephan Schulberg (born in 1944) and David Schulberg (born in 1946), with his second wife, Virginia Anderson.
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Fathered his third son Benn Stuart with his fourth wife Betsy Ann Langham.
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Fathered his second daughter Jessica Adeline with his fourth wife Betsy Ann Langham.
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Son of B.P. Schulberg, who ran Paramount Pictures in the 1930s.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Weekend for Three
1941
story
Winter Carnival
1939
writer
Little Orphan Annie
1938
as Budd Wilson Schulberg
Nothing Sacred
1937
uncredited
A Star Is Born
1937
contributing writer - uncredited
Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
2007
Documentary
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's
1987
TV Movie based on a story by / teleplay
Rozcarování
1982
TV Movie novel "The Disenchanted"
A Question of Honor
1982
TV Movie
Seref kavgasi
1966
screenplay "On the Waterfront" - uncredited
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1964
TV Series short story - 1 episode
Quest
1962
TV Series 1 episode
Everglades
1961
TV Series written by - 1 episode
General Electric Theater
TV Series story - 3 episodes, 1955 - 1961 adaptation - 2 episodes, 1961
Sunday Showcase
1959
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Wind Across the Everglades
1958
written by
Matinee Theatre
1958
TV Series story - 1 episode
A Face in the Crowd
1957
screenplay / story
The Harder They Fall
1956
based on a novel by
On the Waterfront
1954
based upon an original story by / screenplay
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1950
TV Series teleplay - 2 episodes
Actor's Studio
1949
TV Series story - 1 episode
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1949
TV Series novel "What Makes Sammy Run" - 1 episode
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