B. P. Schulberg

...hewing to his own set of principles. Born in 1914 as the son of Paramount Pictures head B.P. Schulberg and legendary agent Sam Jaffe's sister Adele, Schulberg bucked his status as a self-described "Hollywood Prince," convincing his limo...

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...to the Coen brothers' "Barton Fink" to David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" that doesn't owe a debt to Schulberg's scrappy, always conniving hustler. Schulberg wasn't entirely overjoyed that the character he'd written as such a ruthless...

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The 1954 drama received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando and Best Story and Screenplay for Schulberg. Schulberg is survived by his wife Betsy and four children.

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...in 1951, he named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee. Richard Collins named Schulberg as a former party member first. Schulberg telegrammed the committee acknowledging his former membership and offering his full...

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...ring, watching two men fight. Eighty years ago he sat ringside at the Royal Albert Hall with his father, the Hollywood producer BP Schulberg, watching Young Stribling fight Primo Carnera. The mobbed-up Italian won on disqualification. Budd's...

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...Award nominations, winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando and Best Story and Screenplay for Schulberg. Schulberg is survived by his wife Betsy and four children. Subscribe to this news alert service to...

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...only denounced the book at a meeting of the Motion Picture Producers Assn. but also suggested that Schulberg be deported. To which B.P. Schulberg laughed and said, "Louie, he's the only novelist who ever came from Hollywood. Where the hell...

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"On the Waterfront" screenwriter Schulberg dies, 95 Budd Schulberg, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of "On the Waterfront" and author of novels such as "The Harder They Fall," has died in New York at age 95. His wife, Betsy Schulberg, told...

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...even further into the present. Spike Lee dedicated "Bamboozled," his 2000 film that satirized television, to Mr. Schulberg. Mr. Schulberg's fascination with ambition found a consistent theme in boxing in his films, books and short...

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...draft, Warner gave Stiller positive notes and a working budget. But they cooled, didn't move fast enough for Schulberg and Stiller. Schulberg , "a little less patient in my waiting than I was before," wrote Warner Bros. a personal letter...

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