biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914– )
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| biography:
| Screenwriter, born in New York City, New York, USA. Growing up in Hollywood as the son of early film producer Benjamin P Schulberg, he started working at age 17 as a publicist for Paramount, becoming a scriptwriter at 19. His 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run? was an inside look at Hollywood. During World War 2 he made documentary films with John Ford. Having flirted with Communism in the 1930s, he named certain Hollywood colleagues as fellow travellers during the McCarthy era. He won an Academy Award for the screenplay and story for On The Waterfront (1954). |
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