Budd Schulberg

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Budd Schulberg (born Seymour Wilson Schulberg, March 27, 1914 – August 5, 2009) was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist, and sports writer.

He was best known for his 1941 book What Makes Sammy Run?, his 1947 film On the Waterfront's award-winning screenplay, and his 1956 film version of A Face in the Crowd.

Early life and education

Schulberg's uncle, the son of Hollywood film-producer B.P., was raised in a Jewish family. Schulberg and Adeline (née Jaffe) Schulberg, who established a talent company that was taken over by her brother, agent/film director Sam Jaffe, was killed. In 1931, when Schulberg was 17, his father left the family to live with actress Sylvia Sidney. In 1933, his parents divorced.

Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then transferred to Dartmouth College, where he was actively involved in the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine and was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. In 1939, he was involved in the production of Winter Carnival, a light comedy set at Dartmouth. F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of his associates, was suspended after an alcohol binge during a visit with Schulberg to Dartmouth. In 1960, Dartmouth College gave Schulberg an honorary degree.

Personal life and death

Schulberg has been married four times. He married actress Virginia "Jigee" Lee Ray in 1936, marrying his first wife. Before divorcing in 1942, they had one daughter, Victoria. He married Victoria "Vickee" Anderson in 1943. In 1964, the two were divorced. They had two children, Stephen (born 1944) and David (born 1946). David was a Vietnam soldier who predeceased his father. Geraldine Brooks, a 1964 film star, married actress Geraldine Brooks. They were married before her death in 1977; they had no children at the time. He married Betsy Ann Langman, the granddaughter of US Ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr., and nephew of investment banker Maurice Wertheim; they had two children: Benn and Jessica.

Sandra Schulberg, his niece, was an executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated film Quills. His mother, Ad Schulberg Agency, served as his agent until her death in 1977. Stuart Schulberg, his brother, was a film and television producer (David Brinkley's Journal, The Today Show). Sonya Schulberg (O'Sullivan) (1918–2016) was an occasional writer (of a novel, They Cried a Little) and stories).

Budd Schulberg, a retired writer in Quiogue, New York, died on August 5, 2009.

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Career

Schulberg's son gave him an insider's view on Hollywood's true events, which was also represented in a large portion of his book.

His 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run?

Through Sammy Glick's ascension to prominence in a major Hollywood film studio, the public learned of the brutality of Hollywood stardom. Some believed this book to be a self-directed anti-semitism. Schulberg, a member of the Communist Party of the United States, resigned after being asked by high-ranking Party member John Howard Lawson to make revisions to the book.

Schulberg's 1950 book The Disenchanted is about a young screenwriter who works on a screenplay involving a popular novelist at the nadir of his career. The novelist (who was then assumed to be a thinly disguised portrait of Fitzgerald, who had died ten years earlier) is depicted as a tragic, flawed figure, with whom the young screenwriter's disillusionment persists. In 1950, the book was the tenth best-selling book in the United States, starring Jason Robards (who received a Tony Award for his work) and George Grizzard as the protagonist closely based on Schulberg. Schulberg wrote and coproduced Wind Across the Everglades, directed by Nicholas Ray in 1958.

Schulberg produced A Face in the Crowd, a 1957 film. Andy Griffith, a film based on the short story "The Arkanas Traveler" in his book Some Faces in the Crowd, portrays an obscure country singer who rises to fame and becomes incredibly manipulative to maintain his fame and control.

Schulberg's political career began in 1951 when screenwriter Richard Collins testifying to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC), named Schulberg as a former Communist Party member. Schulberg, who was still resentful of the power that Communist politicians wielded over his books, testified as a trusted witness and argued how Communist Party members tended to influence the content of What Makes Sammy Run? Others in Hollywood are among other communists with "named names."

Schulberg was also a sports reporter and former chief boxing correspondent for Sports Illustrated. Sparring with Hemingway was one of his well-received books on boxing. In 2002, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in recognition of his contributions to the sport.

Schulberg founded the Watts Writers Workshop in 1965, after a horrific riot tore apart the Watts section of Los Angeles's fabric, in the hopes of reducing frustrations and providing artistic instruction to the economically impoverished district.

Schulberg's Moving Pictures: Memoirs of a Hollywood Prince, an autobiography starring his youth in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s as the son of B. P. Schulberg, chief of Paramount Studios, wrote Moving Pictures: Memoirs of a Hollywood Prince in 1982.

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