Budd Schulberg

He Risks His Life For His Money! Anderson Cooper pays $1.7M for Hamptons estate NEXT DOOR to the one he already owns just to avoid new neighbors Home previously owned by On The Waterfront screenwriter Budd Schulberg By Michael Zennie Last updated at 9:24 PM on 13th January 2012 Anderson Cooper, the CNN anchor and talk show host, has shelled out $1.7million for his third upscale home in New York -- and he doesn't even plan to live in this one. Mr Cooper bought the house next door to his own...Read Full Story

Movie: On the Waterfront (1954) Director: Elia Kazan Release Date: 17 March 1955 (Hong Kong) Writers: Malcolm Johnson (suggested by articles) Budd Schulberg (story)   Run Time: 108 min Country: USA Genre: Crime , Drama , Romance   Tagline: The Man Lived by the Jungle Law of the Docks!   Trivia: According to Arthur Miller in his autobiography “Timebends”, he had written a screenplay dealing with corruption on the New York waterfront called “The Hook”. Elia Kazan had...Read Full Story

On the Waterfront Movie Poster 9 in. x 12 in. Buy This Allposters.com On the Waterfront – 1954 Directed by: Elia Kazan Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint Screenplay by: Budd Schulberg Studio: Columbia Pictures Release Date: July 28, 1954 On the Waterfront (1954) is a classic, award-winning, controversial film directed by Elia Kazan – a part drama and part gangster film. The authentic-looking, powerful film is concerned...Read Full Story

On the Waterfront came perilously close to never being produced because as Darryl Zanuck put it when he rejected the script, “Who’s going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen?” Zanuck could not see that On the Water­front was a natural sequel to The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley. His rejec­tion of the script sent Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg on a seemingly hopeless quest for a producer to make their film. Both Kazan and Schulberg had been bit­ten by the waterfront bug...Read Full Story

In 1949, reporter Malcolm Johnson received a Pulitzer Prize for 24 articles published in the New York Sun. The articles detailed the violence and corruption then rampant along the docks. Budd Schulberg turned them into a fictionalized story and received an Oscar for the screenplay for On the Waterfront. Made in 1954, the movie exposed the seamy side of the longshoreman’s union during the years following the Second World War. Marlon Brando was cast in the lead role as Terry Malloy, and Rod...Read Full Story