B. P. Schulberg - Turner Classic Movies

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Also Known As

Ben Schulberg

Birth Place

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Born

January 19, 1892

Died

February 25, 1957

Biography

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Former reporter and editor who began his film career in 1911 as a screenwriter and publicity director for Rex Films. Just one year later, Schulberg joined Adolph Zukor's Famous Players, where he helped publicize "Queen Elizabeth". He then became an independent producer and launched the career or Clara Bow, the 'It Girl'. He began producing for Paramount in 1925 and, several years later, ...

Filmography

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Capital Punishment (1925)

Tess of the Storm Country (1914)

In the Bishop's Carriage (1913)

City Without Men (1943)

The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)

Flight Lieutenant (1942)

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Wife Takes A Flyer, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Alien Legs

Wife Takes A Flyer, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Feel Like Gargantua

Family & Companions

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Adeline Jaffe

Wife

Literary agent.

Biography

Former reporter and editor who began his film career in 1911 as a screenwriter and publicity director for Rex Films. Just one year later, Schulberg joined Adolph Zukor's Famous Players, where he helped publicize "Queen Elizabeth". He then became an independent producer and launched the career or Clara Bow, the 'It Girl'. He began producing for Paramount in 1925 and, several years later, served as general manager of their West Coast operation. Schulberg again tried his hand at independent production in 1932 and was subsequently affiliated with a number of Hollywood outfits, though he had trouble finding work following WWII. Father of screenwriter and novelist, Budd Schulberg.

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Capital Punishment (1925)

Tess of the Storm Country (1914)

In the Bishop's Carriage (1913)

Producer (Feature Film)

City Without Men (1943)

The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)

Flight Lieutenant (1942)

The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)

Bedtime Story (1941)

He Stayed for Breakfast (1940)

Blossoms on Broadway (1937)

Counterfeit (1936)

Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)

The King Steps Out (1936)

Lady of Secrets (1936)

El cuerpo del delito (1930)

Gerente General de los Estudios de California [General Manager of the California Studios]

Illusion (1929)

Abie's Irish Rose (1929)

Associate Producer

Under the Tonto Rim (1928)

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The Big Killing (1928)

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The Last Command (1928)

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Wife Savers (1928)

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The Street of Sin (1928)

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Red Hair (1928)

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Rough House Rosie (1927)

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Underworld (1927)

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The Mysterious Rider (1927)

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Barbed Wire (1927)

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Shootin' Irons (1927)

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Blonde or Brunette (1927)

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Special Delivery (1927)

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The World at Her Feet (1927)

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Rolled Stockings (1927)

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Tell It to Sweeney (1927)

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Señorita (1927)

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Swim, Girl, Swim (1927)

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The Woman on Trial (1927)

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Evening Clothes (1927)

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Fireman, Save My Child (1927)

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The Rough Riders (1927)

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Man Power (1927)

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Get Your Man (1927)

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Time To Love (1927)

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Figures Don't Lie (1927)

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Afraid To Love (1927)

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The Whirlwind of Youth (1927)

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Wedding Bill$ (1927)

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Kid Boots (1926)

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Desert Gold (1926)

The Eagle of the Sea (1926)

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You'd Be Surprised (1926)

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We're in the Navy Now (1926)

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Old Ironsides (1926)

Man of the Forest (1926)

Associate Producer

Poisoned Paradise: The Forbidden Story of Monte Carlo (1924)

Are You a Failure? (1923)

The Hero (1923)

Daughters of the Rich (1923)

The Scarlet Lily (1923)

Mothers-in-Law (1923)

The Girl Who Came Back (1923)

The Virginian (1923)

The Lonely Road (1923)

Money Money Money (1923)

Poor Men's Wives (1923)

Chastity (1923)

April Showers (1923)

The Broken Wing (1923)

April Showers (1923)

Domestic Relations (1922)

Rich Men's Wives (1922)

The Infidel (1922)

White Shoulders (1922)

Thorns and Orange Blossoms (1922)

The Woman Conquers (1922)

Heroes and Husbands (1922)

The Woman's Side (1922)

The Woman Conquers (1922)

Rich Men's Wives (1922)

The Beautiful Liar (1921)

Stranger Than Fiction (1921)

Production Companies (Feature Film)

John Meade's Woman (1937)

She's No Lady (1937)

She Asked for It (1937)

Blossoms on Broadway (1937)

Her Husband Lies (1937)

The Great Gambini (1937)

A Doctor's Diary (1937)

And So They Were Married (1936)

Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)

Wedding Present (1936)

She Couldn't Take It (1935)

Crime and Punishment (1935)

One Way Ticket (1935)

Behold My Wife! (1934)

Good Dame (1934)

Little Miss Marker (1934)

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

Her Bodyguard (1933)

Three Cornered Moon (1933)

The Girl in 419 (1933)

Jennie Gerhardt (1933)

The Crime of the Century (1933)

Luxury Liner (1933)

Madame Butterfly (1932)

Life Events

Videos

Wife Takes A Flyer, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Alien Legs Allyn Joslyn plays a comical Nazi in occupied Holland, whose girl-hunting brings him to the Woverman household, where he meets the butler (Erskine Sanford), and mother (Georgia Caine), and we meet leading man Franchot Tone, a downed British flyer, and finally leading lady Joan Bennett, early in MGM’s The Wife Takes A Flyer, 1942.

Wife Takes A Flyer, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Feel Like Gargantua The Nazi major (Allyn Joslyn) is taking over a Dutch household because he digs the soon-to-be-divorced daughter (Joan Bennett), while the butler (Erskine Sanford) is helping a fugitive Brit (Franchot Tone), who’s forced to improvise, Georgia Caine the clever mom, early in the MGM war-comedy The Wife Takes A Flyer, 1942.

Three Cornered Moon (1933) -- (Movie Clip) I've Had Two Zeniths Flighty affluent Brooklyn-ite Elizabeth (Claudette Colbert) has just rescued her artist-novelist boyfriend Ronald (Hardie Albright), as he was evicted from his Manhattan apartment, Elliot Nugent directing the Paramount Great Depression comedy Three Cornered Moon, 1933.

Three Cornered Moon (1933) -- (Movie Clip) The Depression's Over The Brooklyn Rimplegar family has just learned that mother (Mary Boland) lost all their money in the stock market, so it falls to sister Elizabeth (Claudette Colbert) to squeeze the rent out of the tenant, Dr. Stevens (Richard Arlen), in the Depression comedy Three Cornered Moon, 1933.

Three Cornered Moon (1933) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Smart To Die Opening in modern Brooklyn, laundry man Sam Godfrey delivers to Mary Boland, as nutty Mrs. Rimplegar, with maid Jenny (Lyda Roberti), sons Kenneth (Wallace Ford) and Douglas (William Bakewell), money trouble emerging, Claudette Colbert coming soon, in Paramount's Three Cornered Moon, 1935.

Crime And Punishment (1935) -- (Movie Clip) One Man Of Genius Impoverished writer Raskolnikov (Peter Lorre) happens to be guilty of the crime for which the admiring Inspector Porfiry (Edward Arnold) is interrogating a suspect, in Josef von Sternberg's Crime And Punishment, 1935, from the Dostoyevsky novel.

It (1927) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Get My Wish! Elinor Glyn, author of the hot new article, at the Ritz, accosted by Cyrus (Antonio Moreno) who is then pursued by Betty Lou (Clara Bow), losing interest in her date Monty (William Austin), in Paranmount's It, 1927.

It (1927) -- (Movie Clip) Hot Socks! The New Boss! Aide Monty (William Austin) is all into whether employer pal Cyrus (Antonio Moreno) has the thing cited in a hot new article, then they meet shop-girls, led by Betty Lou (Clara Bow), in Paramount's It, 1927.

Family

Budd Schulberg

Son

Screenwriter, author. Born 1914.

Sonya Schulberg

Daughter

Born c. 1918.

Stuart Schulberg

Son

Born c. 1922; died 1979.

Companions

Adeline Jaffe

Wife

Literary agent.

Bibliography

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