Ortega, Gaspar, 97, 100
Owen, Jimmy, 167
Pacheco, Ferdie, 155, 160, 161, 180, 186, 192
Page, Greg, 243
Palermo, Blinky, 101-102, 124-129
Pantaleo, Pete, 124, 125
Papke, Billy, 20
Paret, Benny, 140, 167
Parker, Dan, 81
Pastrano, Willie, 143
Patterson, Floyd, 9, 77, 90-93, 130-142, 161, 198
Patterson, Pat, 180, 191
Paycheck, Johnny, 77
Peale, Norman Vincent, 149
Pellone, Tony, 97
Pep, Willie, 73, 95, 100, 110, 158
Peralta, Gregorio, 226
Petronelli, Pat, 212
Pfeiffer, Pauline, 17
Pierce the Game Chicken, 10
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 83
Plimpton, George, 9
Pointer Sisters, 179
Poitier, Sidney, 180
Povich, Shirley, 83
Prejudice, 36-52, 139. See also Boxing, race and.
Press. See Reporters.
Promoters, 69-70, 124-129, 167, 227
Pruden, Fritzie, 202
Quarry, Jerry, 45, 162, 196
Quarry, Mike, 94
Queer Street, 195
Rafferty, Phil, 185
Rappaport, Dennis, 199, 202
Reporters, 9, 21, 34, 45, 47, 83, 161, 200; in Zaire, 177-179
Rice, Grantland, 35
Richmond, Bill, 10
Rickard, Tex, 44, 47
Rindone, Joe, 121
Ring magazine, 159
Ritchie, Willie, 54
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 95, 100, 119-123, 126, 129, 158, 193, 211
Rocky, 194, 195, 209
Rocky Kansas, 54
Rooney, Kevin, 240
Roper, Ruth, 221
Ross, Barney, 83, 129, 193
Rossman, Mike, 94
Rothschild, Norman, 103
Ryan, Paddy, 42, 164
Ryan, Pat, 163
Saddler, Sandy, 95, 110, 117
Sadler, Dick, 179
Sanford, Young, 94
Sangor, Joey, 62
Saroyan, William, 9
Sarria, Luis, 174, 180
Satterfield, Bob, 91
Savold, Lee, 107
Saxton, Johnny, 101-104, 123, 124-129, 140, 185
Sayers, Tom, 107
Schmeling, Max, 34, 49-52, 85, 126, 191
Schulberg, B. P., 24
Schulberg, Budd: The Disenchanted, 23-26; The Harder They Fall, 17, 33, 71-74, 141, 185, 204; On the Waterfront, 27; What Makes Sammy Run?, 17, 23, 72
Schulberg, Stuart, 140
Schwartz, Hank, 99
Scott, Phil, 106
Scypion, Wilford, 162
Sencio, Speedy, 68, 69, 70
Servo, Marty, 119, 120
Sharkey, Jack, 126
Shavers, Earnie, 217
Shaw, George Bernard, 11, 48, 187
Shaw, Irwin, 29-30; The Young Lions, 29
Sheppard, Curtis, 82
Shiel, Bishop, 168
Shipes, Charley, 229
Shugrue, Joe, 55
Silverman, Sam, 101
Simon, Abe, 73, 102
Simpson, John, 109
Singer, Al, 62
Slavin, Frank, 74
Smith, Bud, 95
Smith, Red, 80, 83
Smith, Tommie, 224
Solomons, Jack, 109
Soose, Billy, 73, 82, 83
Spinks, Leon, 189, 203-206, 213-215, 219-221
Sports Illustrated, 34, 71, 163, 241
Sports writers. See Reporters.
Stallone, Sylvester, 192
Stebbins, Artie, 55
Steele, Richard, 209
Stillman’s gym, 64-70
Stingley, Daryl, 163
Streisand, Barbra, 217
Sugar, Bert, 159
Sullivan, John L., 42, 102, 135, 164, 242
Tannas, Tom, 87
Tate, John, 243
Taylor, Bud, 62
Taylor, Estelle, 47
Television, 94-100, 165
Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 25
Terris, Sid, 62
Texas, 168
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 25
Thomas, Pinklon, 243
Thompson, Hunter, 11
Thompson, Jack, 129
Tiger, Dick, 97
Times of London, 40
Tomatoes, Jimmy, 89
Torres, José, 160, 161, 183, 184
Trump, Don, 216
Tschimpumpu Wa Tschimpumpu, 177, 178
Tubbs, Tony, 243
Tucker, Tony, 206
Tunney, Gene, 20, 48, 140, 242
Turcotte, Ron, 163
Turpin, Randy, 95, 120
Tyson, Mike, 202, 206, 216-218, 219-221, 238-240, 242, 244, 247
“Undefeated, The” (Hemingway), 30
Valdes, Nino, 91, 105
Valle, Victor, 199, 203
Vanneman, Vince, 69, 70
Vejar, Chico, 97
Viertel, Jigee, 28-29
Viertel, Peter, 28
Vitale, John, 136
Walcott, Joe, 82, 87, 90, 140, 183, 222-223
Walker, Mickey, 21, 73
Walker Law, 165
Wallace, Coley, 124
Washington Post, 83
Weaver, John V. A., 24
Weaver, Mike, 199
Weigh-ins, 86-89, 126, 154-155, 169, 220
Weill, Al, 82, 105
Welch, Joseph, 103
Welling, Joe, 54, 56
Wells, Bombardier, 106
Welsh, Freddie, 54
Welterweights, 193-195
West, Nathanael, 25
What Makes Sammy Run? (Schulberg), 17, 25, 72
Wiener, Frank, 125, 129
Williams, Holman, 82
Williams, Ike, 124, 126
Williams, Johnny, 106
Willkie, Wendell, 52
Withers, Bill, 179
Witherspoon, Tim, 243
Wonder, Stevie, 179
Woodcock, Bruce, 106
Young, Jimmy, 197, 227, 228
Young, Paddy, 97, 126
Young Abel, 32
Young Dutch Sam, 131
Young Lions, The, 29
Zaire, 169-182
Zivic, Fritzie, 110, 119, 129
Zukor, Adolph, 60
A Biography of Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) was a celebrated screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and journalist best remembered for his classic novel What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Schulberg was the first major American novelist to grow up in Hollywood, a town with which he had a complex and sometimes contentious relationship.
Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg on March 27, 1914, in New York City, Schulberg and his family relocated to Los Angeles a few years later. His father, Ben “B. P.” Schulberg, became one of the most prominent movie producers in the 1920s and ’30s, so Schulberg grew up among movie stars and powerful studio executives. His mother, Adeline Jaffe, was a talent agent who later became one of the first female literary agents. Both of Schulberg’s parents valued authors and literature, and cultivated Schulberg’s literary ambitions throughout his childhood. More than acting, though, Schulberg revered boxing; his father introduced him to the sport and to some of the era’s champions. His fascination with boxing would influence much of his writing career, including his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall.
Schulberg attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1936. He then worked in Hollywood as a writer (collaborating with F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others) while working on his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? Once it was published, the book set off shockwaves with its frank exposure of the dark side of Hollywood’s golden era. The novel angered real-life industry heads and damaged his own father’s career. Schulberg was fired from his scriptwriting job with Samuel Goldwyn and nearly blacklisted in the filmmaking business.
Durin
g World War II, Schulberg worked for the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA. In 1945, director John Ford tasked him to help assemble film evidence of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to be used during the Nuremberg trials. This was the first time that film evidence was used in a trial to convict. He compiled footage shot by German filmmakers, including Leni Riefenstahl, who was arrested by Schulberg himself and brought to Nuremberg to help aid the prosecution.
In 1951, Schulberg was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his former involvement with the Communist Party. Though he had been a member of the party for six years, he had quit after a bitter disagreement with party members who wanted to vet his script for What Makes Sammy Run?. During his testimony, he identified several fellow Hollywood figures as Communists. The HUAC trials caused another rift between Schulberg and the film industry, with many feeling that his testimony betrayed friends and colleagues.
Despite this setback, Schulberg soon had his greatest film success, with his screenplay for On the Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan. The movie, about New Jersey longshoremen whose lives are controlled by the Mob, won eight Academy Awards and also evolved into a novel (1955) and a play (1988), both written by Schulberg. He soon reunited with Kazan, turning the title story from his collection Some Faces in the Crowd (1954) into a screenplay for the influential film A Face in the Crowd (1957), which launched the career of actor Andy Griffith.
Throughout his career, Schulberg worked as a journalist and essayist, often writing about boxing, a lifelong passion. Many of his writings on the sport are collected in Sparring with Hemingway (1995) and Ringside (2006). Other highlights from Schulberg’s nonfiction career include Moving Pictures (1981), an account of his upbringing in Hollywood, and Writers in America (1973), a glimpse of some of the famous novelists he met early in his career.
Schulberg married four times and had five children. He died at his home on Long Island in 2009.
Schulberg’s parents, Adeline and B. P. Schulberg, hold an infant Budd in this early family portrait.
Schulberg and his fourth wife, Betsy Schulberg, in Westhampton Beach, New York, in 2003. © 2003 Ken Regan
Schulberg at work on his typewriter. At the top of this photo, he wrote the following note to his son: “For Benn, To a happy and productive life ahead! Love, Dad 8/14/2003.”
Schulberg’s father, B. P. Schulberg.
Origin: Culver Pictures Inc.
Schulberg, B.P. (1892-1957), American film producer and executive
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The Schulberg family in Westhampton, New York. From left to right: Jessica, Budd, Betsy, and Benn.
From left to right: Schulberg, actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, Elia Kazan, and actress Myrna Loy.
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A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Schulberg, praising Moving Pictures, dated September 19, 1981.
Brothers Stuart Schulberg and Budd Schulberg (from left to right) on the set of Wind Across the Everglades, a film written by Budd and produced by Stuart, in 1958.
Budd Schulberg with his second wife, Virginia Anderson, at the pool outside his eighteenth-century farmhouse, Inghamdale, near New Hope, Pennsylvania, with Schulberg’s children David, Steve, and Victoria. This photo was taken around 1949.
Schulberg with fellow members of the U.S. military, taken during World War II.
Schulberg with sons David and Steve.
Schulberg with Geraldine Brooks and pet cat at their family house on Long Island in the mid-1970s.
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