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B. P. Schulberg

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B. P. Schulberg
  • Birth Name:
    Benjamin Percival Schulberg
  • Nickname:
    Ben
  • Date of Birth:
    January 19, 1892
  • Place of Birth:
    Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
  • Place of Death:
    Key Biscayne, Florida, USA
  • Date of Death:
    February 25, 1957
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

Family

B. P. Schulberg
  • Sister:
    Sam Jaffe
  • Spouse:
    Helen McHale Keebler, Adeline Jaffe
  • Son:
    Budd Schulberg, Stuart Schulberg.

Career

B. P. Schulberg

Trivia

B. P. Schulberg
  • For his contribution to the motion picture industry, B.P. Schulberg has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street.
  • He produced six films for Columbia in three years until he retired in 1943.
  • In a power struggle at Paramount, Schulberg left the studio in 1937 and remained out of the business until 1940 when he began producing for Columbia Pictures.
  • In an era when the film industry was filled with conservative studio executives, B.P. Schulberg was a "New Deal" liberal, described by Moving Pictures magazine as "a political liberal in the reactionary world of Mayer and Hearst."
  • he worked in the fledgling film industry in New York City until 1919 when he moved to Hollywood, California where he operated "Preferred Pictures" and was responsible for making Clara Bow a star.
  • B.P. Schulberg was a pioneer film producer and movie studio executive.

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