Budd Schulberg: A Bio-Bibliography

by Nicholas Beck

Overview

This is the first overview of Schulberg's career 1937-2000 (his own autobiography, Moving Pictures, covers his life only to age 17). For more than six decades, Budd Wilson Schulberg has known success in virtually every category of American writing. Raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul, Schulberg achieved fame as novelist, short story writer, playwright, 'scar-winning screenwriter and boxing historian.

He also became a central figure in the entertainment industry's political turmoil of the 1940s and 50s, fleeing first from the Communist Party's attempts to control his writing, then testifying as a cooperating witness before the House Committee on Un-American activities, and finally emerging as a leader of the nation's non-Communist Left. Schulberg chronicled these events in the country's leading newspapers and intellectual journals.

He has also known, and written about, many other American writers and their difficulties in maintaining or recapturing early success: Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Nathanael West, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Irwin Shaw and many other distinguished novelists and playwrights who were doing studio work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810840355
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/03/2001
Series:	The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series , #91
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.74(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Beck is a retired professor of Journalism. He has taught at California State University, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Part 1: Biography Chapter 4 1 A Princely Childhood Chapter 5 2 To Russia, with Maury Chapter 6 3 The Party Chapter 7 4 Jigee Chapter 8 5 Sammy Chapter 9 6 The Contendas Chapter 10 7 Fitzgerald and Winter Carnival Chapter 11 8 Boys in the Back Room Chapter 12 9 Papa Chapter 13 10 The Manly Art Chapter 14 11 World War II and The Disenchanted Chapter 15 12 The House Committee Chapter 16 13 The Waterfront in Multimedia Chapter 17 14 Harry Cohn and Andy Griffith Chapter 18 15 Florida and the Everglades Chapter 19 16 Sammy: On TV, on Broadway Chapter 20 17 Watts and After Chapter 21 18 Getting Sammy to the Big Screen. Almost. Chapter 22 19 Back to Work Part 23 Appendix A Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, May 23, 1951 Part 24 Appendix B Review of What Makes Sammy Run? by Charles Glenn, People's World, April 2, 1941 Part 25 Appendix C Review of What Makes Sammy Run? by Charles Glenn, People's World, April 24, 1941 Part 26 Appendix D Schulberg Letter to Variety Regarding Leni Riefenstahl, May 23, 1973 Part 27 References Part 28 Part 2: Filmography and Bibliography Chapter 29 Motion Pictures Chapter 30 Radio Chapter 31 Television Chapter 32 Plays Chapter 33 Books Chapter 34 Introductions, Forewords, Afterwords, and Epilogues Chapter 35 Anthologies Chapter 36 Translations Chapter 37 Unpublished or Unproduced Plays, Screenplays, and Books Chapter 38 Uncollected Stories Chapter 39 Uncollected Articles Chapter 40 First Appearances in Magazines or Newspapers Chapter 41 Unpublished Stories Chapter 42 Stories Written for Book Publication Chapter 43 Reprints and Condensations Chapter 44 Reviews of Works by Schulberg Chapter 45 Reviews of Stage Plays Written or Cowritten by Schulberg Chapter 46 Reviews of Films or Television Productions with Scripts, Adaptations, or Original Stories by Schulberg Chapter 47 Articles about Schulberg Chapter 48 Interviews Chapter 49 Miscellaneous Part 50 Index Part 51 About the Author