Budd Schulberg - 1914
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San Pedro High School in San Pedro, California
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I. Biography Budd Schulberg was born March 27, 1914, in New York City,
New York. His father Benjamin P. Schulberg was chief of production at Paramount Studios; his mother was named Adeline Jaffe. Budd graduated from Dartmouth College in 1936,
cum laude. Later that same year, (July 23,1936), he married Virginia Ray, but they divorced eight years later. From this marriage he had a daughter named Victoria. In February of 1943,
he married Victoria Anderson. Together they had two sons named David and Stephen. Unfortunately, this marriage ended in divorce twenty-one years later. His third marriage, in
July of 1964, was to an actress named Geraldine Brooks; she died in 1977. His fourth and final marriage was to Betsy Ann Langman, on June 9, 1979. They had a son named Benn and a daughter named Jessica.
Schulberg's first job was as boxing editor for Sports Illustrated. He then moved on to screenwriter for Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, and Walter Wanger. In 1940 he
became president and producer of Schulberg Productions, and founder and director of Watts Writer Workshop. He also taught courses at various universities and colleges. In
addition he spent three years in the U.S Navy. He was assigned to the office of strategic service. II. Literary Works What Makes Sammy Run? is the story of a young newspaper clerk, Sammy Glick, who
sells another man's movie script as his own. Through deceit and manipulation, Sammy develops a name for himself in Hollywood. Meanwhile the narrator of the story, Al Manheim, constantly ponders the question, "What makes Sammy run?"
Moving Pictures is an autobiography covering Schulberg's life from childhood to attending Darthmouth College to coming back to Hollywood. III. Hollywood, California and Budd Schulberg IV. Works by Budd Schulberg Fiction Nonfiction Plays and Screenplays Anthology V. Sources
Hollywood
Brown Derby
Vine Street Derby
Hollywood Boulevard
Back Lot Club
What Makes Sammy Run? 1941
The Harder They Fall, 1956
The Disenchanted, 1950
Waterfront, 1979
Some Faces in the Crowd
Sanctuary V, 1969
Everything That Moves
Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales
Loser and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali
The Four Seasons of Success
Swan Watch
Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince, 1982
Writers in America
A Face in the Crowd
Across the Everglades, 1958
The Disenchanted
What Makes Sammy Run?
On the Waterfront, 1984
From the Ashes—Voices of Watts
Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince
, Budd Schulberg, copyright 1981, Stein and Day Publishing This essay was submitted by a student of Grant Farley, a teacher at San Pedro High School
in San Pedro, California.