"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880 novel """" by General Lew Wallace. Starring Ramon Novarro as the title character, the film is the first feature-length adaptation of the novel and second overall, following the 1907 short. In 1997, ""Ben-Hur"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" Ben-Hur is a wealthy young Jewish prince and boyhood"
"huge crowds, has had to be expressly strengthened and shored up"". There have been other stage adaptations since the initial production in 1899, including a London production staged in 2009 at the O2 arena featuring a live chariot race. The book was also adapted for motion pictures in 1907, 1925, 1959, 2003, 2016, and as an American television miniseries in 2010. The 1959 film adaptation, starring Charlton Heston and featuring the famous chariot race, won a record eleven Academy Awards and was the top-grossing film of 1960. Notes Bibliography Ben-Hur (play) Ben-Hur was an 1899 theatrical adaption of the novel"
"million copies of the book were sold, and in 1913, Sears Roebuck ordered another one million copies, at that time the largest single-year print edition in American history, and sold them for 39 cents apiece. Within 20 years of its publication, ""Ben-Hur"" was ""second only to the Bible as the best-selling book in America"", and remained in second position until Margaret Mitchell's ""Gone With the Wind"" (1936) surpassed it. A 1946 edition of ""Ben-Hur"" published by Grosset and Dunlap boasted that 26 million copies of the novel were in print. With the release of the 1959 film adaptation of the"
"script-doctor explanation, Charlton Heston said that Gore Vidal had contributed little to the script of Ben Hur. Despite Vidal's script-doctor resolution of the character's motivations, the Screen Writers Guild assigned formal screenwriter-credit to Karl Tunberg, in accordance with the WGA screenwriting credit system, which favored the ""original author"" of a screenplay, rather than the writer of the filmed screenplay. Two plays, ""The Best Man: A Play about Politics"" (1960, made into a film in 1964) and ""Visit to a Small Planet"" (1955) were theatre and movie successes; Vidal occasionally returned to the movie business, and wrote historically accurate teleplays and"
"of ""Ben-Hur"" is considered one of the greatest films ever made and was seen by tens of millions, going on to win a record 11 Academy Awards in 1960, after which the book's sales increased and it surpassed ""Gone with the Wind"". It was blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the first novel ever to receive such praise. The success of the novel and its stage and film adaptations also helped it to become a popular cultural icon that was used to promote numerous commercial products. The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is"
"it as the most influential Christian book of the 19th century. Others named it one of the best-selling novels of all time. At the time of ""Ben-Hur""'s one hundredth anniversary in 1980, it had ""never been out of print"" and had been adapted for the stage and several motion pictures. One historian, Victor Davis Hanson, has argued that ""Ben-Hur"" drew from Wallace's life, particularly his experiences at Shiloh, and the damage it did to his reputation. The book's main character, Judah Ben-Hur, accidentally causes injury to a high-ranking Roman commander, for which he and his family suffer tribulations and calumny."
"Book Foundation, which called him a ""prominent social critic on politics, history, literature and culture"". In 1956, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired Gore Vidal as a screenplay writer with a four-year employment contract. In 1958, the director William Wyler required a script doctor to rewrite the screenplay for ""Ben-Hur"" (1959), originally written by Karl Tunberg. As one of several script doctors assigned to the project, Vidal rewrote portions of the script to resolve ambiguities of character motivation, specifically to clarify the enmity between the Jewish protagonist, Judah Ben-Hur and the Roman antagonist, Messala, who had been close boyhood friends. In exchange for rewriting"
"so much impact. After producer Sean Daniel persuaded him to read the script, he accepted it, saying ""I read the script. And suddenly I understood this story is not what I expected. It's not a remake, it's an interpretation of the famous book."" He stated the story of ""Ben-Hur"" reminded him of ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""Hamlet"", and Anton Chekhov's work. He was fascinated by the 1959 film but found the focus on revenge rather than forgiveness to be the main problem; this was the prime difference between the book and the 1959 movie: the book was written about forgiveness, and"
"of ""Ben-Hur"", which looked like it was going to be a phenomenal success, and were looking for other old MGM properties to remake. They obtained the necessary rights and announced they would make the movie in June 1958. Julian Blaustein was assigned as producer. Blaustein announced the story would be updated from World War I to World War II: The driving force of the book, is of love among men instead of hatred. I don't think it can be said often enough that such love is indispensable for all of us if we are to have any future. If a"
"The Last Hurrah The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United States for 20 weeks, and was also on lists for bestseller of that year. ""The Last Hurrah"" won the 1955 Atlantic Prize Novel award, and was highlighted by the Book-of-the-Month Club and ""Reader's Digest"". ""The Last Hurrah"" received very positive critical reviews, including an ""ecstatic"" one from the ""New York Times Book Review"". The plot of ""The Last"
"""Ben-Hur"" as the most influential Christian book of the 19th century, while others have identified it as one of the best-selling novels of all time. Carl Van Doren wrote that ""Ben-Hur"" was, along with ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", the first fiction many Americans read. Wallace's original plan was to write a story of the biblical magi as a magazine serial, which he began in 1873, but he had changed its focus by 1874. ""Ben-Hur"" begins with the story of the magi, but the remainder of the novel connects the story of Christ with the adventures of Wallace's fictional character, Judah Ben-Hur."
"a 1977 version, starring Carroll O'Connor that was made for the ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"" series of TV specials, with Terry Becker as executive producer. There was a 1999 staging for the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston by Eric Simonson. In addition, a two-act musical was written and produced at Northwestern University. The Last Hurrah The Last Hurrah is a 1956 novel written by Edwin O'Connor. It is considered the most popular of O’Connor's works, partly because of a 1958 movie adaptation starring Spencer Tracy. The novel was immediately a bestseller in the United States for 20 weeks, and was"
"credits are ""My Gal Sal"" (1942), ""Standing Room Only"" (1944), ""Kitty"" (1945) both with Paulette Goddard, ""Because You're Mine"" (1952), ""Valley of the Kings"" (1954), ""Beau Brummell"" (1954), ""The Seventh Sin"" (1957), ""Count Your Blessings"" (1958), ""Libel"" (1959). He is perhaps best known for ""Ben Hur"" (1959). As noted in many contemporary sources, in addition to Tunberg, who had written the first script for the project more than five years before the start of principal photography, Christopher Fry and Gore Vidal contributed to the screenplay during filming. Maxwell Anderson and S.N. Behrman are also mentioned as contributing writers in the"
"The Hustler (novel) The Hustler is a 1959 novel by American writer Walter Tevis. It tells the story of a young pool hustler, Edward ""Fast Eddie"" Felson, who challenges the legendary Minnesota Fats. ""The Hustler"" was adapted into a 1961 film of the same title, starring Paul Newman as Fast Eddie and Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats. The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for multiple Academy Awards. It remains widely regarded as a classic. After losing to Fats, Eddie could spiral down to the scrapheap, but he meets Bert Gordon, a . Bert teaches him"
"left to start her own company, Gene Gauntier Feature Players. ""Tom Sawyer"" was the first of over three hundred screenplays Gene Gauntier either wrote and produced or sold. In 1907, she wrote the script for ""The Days of '61"", the first film ever made about the American Civil War. That same year she wrote the screenplay and acted in the first ""Ben Hur"" film. The film was adapted in two days:""I was not familiar with ""Ben Hur"" and the mere reading of the book would take two days. But this time my self-confidence [in writing] was unlimited and I promised."
"What is more by dint of working nearly two nights I turned in the script on schedule...and we turned out the greatest spectacle and money-maker up to that time."" At the time, there was no copyright law to protect authors, and she wrote in her autobiography about how the film industry infringed upon everything. As a result of the production of ""Ben Hur"", Harper and Brothers and the author's estate (General Lew Wallace) brought suit against the Kalem Company, the Motion Picture Patents Company, and Gauntier for copyright infringement. The suit, which eventually settled the question of American copyright law"
"book, ""Ben-Hur"" returned to the top of the bestseller lists in the 1960s. At the time of the book's 100th anniversary in 1980, ""Ben-Hur"" had never been out of print and had been adapted for the stage and several motion pictures. ""Ben-Hur"" was popular in its own day despite slow initial sales and mixed reviews from contemporary literary critics, who ""found its romanticism passé and its action pulpy"". ""Century"" magazine called it an ""anachronism"" and ""The Atlantic"" panned its descriptions as ""too lavish"". For its readers, however, the book ""resonated with some of the most significant issues in late Victorian"
"Ben-Hur (play) Ben-Hur was an 1899 theatrical adaption of the novel """" (1880) by Lew Wallace. The play was dramatized by William W. Young and produced by Marc Klaw and A. L. Erlanger. Inspired by the success of Wallace's popular novel, the stage production was notable for its elaborate use of spectacle. It had six acts with incidental music written by American composer Edgar Stillman Kelley. The stage production opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City on November 29, 1899, and became a hit Broadway show. Traveling versions of the production, including a national tour that ran for"
"used Hunt's blackmail and suicide as the basis for his 1959 best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ""Advise and Consent"". In the novel, Senator Fred Van Ackerman from Wyoming uses a homosexual affair to blackmail Utah Senator Brigham Anderson. In 1962, the novel was made into a movie starring Henry Fonda and directed by Otto Preminger. University of Wyoming historian T.A. Larson, author of a history of the state, wrote an account of Hunt's suicide and submitted it to Hunt's widow Nathelle, seeking her permission to publish it. Instead she threatened him with a lawsuit and he never published the results"
"Kathryn Hulme Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel ""The Nun's Story"". The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Her 1956 book ""The Nun's Story"" was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Another work, ""The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure"" published by Little, Brown & Co. was a description of her years as a student of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff and her eventual conversion to Catholicism. Hulme studied with Gurdjieff as part of a group"
"William A. Horning William Allen Horning (November 9, 1904 – March 2, 1959) was an American two-time Academy Award winner. He was married to Esther Montgomery until his death. At the 31st Academy Awards ceremony for 1958, Horning received a posthumous Academy Award for Best Art Direction for that year's Best Picture winner, ""Gigi"". The following year, he received two additional posthumous Oscar nominations, one for Alfred Hitchcock's ""North by Northwest"" and another for the 1959 epic film ""Ben-Hur"". At the 32nd Academy Awards ceremony, Horning won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for ""Ben-Hur"", that year's Best Picture"
"Award winner Susan Hayward in the Canadian-based drama ""Woman Obsessed"". Some advertisements for this movie labeled Boyd as ""The New Gable."" He was then part of another excellent ensemble cast in the adaptation of Rona Jaffe's novel ""The Best of Everything"", filmed in May and June 1959 at Fox Studios in Hollywood and on location in New York City. ""Ben-Hur"" was released in December 1959 and immediately made Boyd an international star. His portrayal of the Roman tribune Messala brought in rave reviews. Press columnist Erskine Johnson wrote, ""A brass hat and the armor of a Roman warrior in ""Ben-Hur"""
"Calvin Beck. Kevin Brownlow described an infamous incident at the Huff Society:It was a society that showed the rarest films — often in a double bill with a recognised classic. Everson's programme notes became world-famous (and let us hope that some enterprising publisher will bring them out). In 1959, MGM's ""Ben-Hur"" received rave reviews and Everson felt they were not deserved — so he showed the 1925 version at the Huff. Rival collector Raymond Rohauer, experiencing a little trouble himself over a lawsuit from MGM, told the FBI what Everson was doing, and they confronted him after the performance. They"
"Book Review"" bestseller list for several months. A movie of the same name, based loosely on the novel and starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster, was released by United Artists in 1958 (Beach was unhappy with the adaptation). Beach penned two sequels to ""Run Silent, Run Deep"": ""Dust on the Sea"" (1972), relating in detail a war patrol by ""Eel"" leading a wolfpack, and ""Cold is the Sea"" (1978), set in 1961 aboard a nuclear submarine. In addition to ""Submarine!"", Beach wrote several more books on naval history, including ""The Wreck of the Memphis"" (1966); ""United States Navy: 200 Years"""
"filmed as ""Beachhead"" in 1954. It was republished as ""Walk Into Hell"" in 1963. Hubler became a Hollywood Scriptwriter with a screenplay based on Jim Corbett's ""Man-Eaters of Kumaon"". This led him to be signed as a scriptwriter for Belsam Productions to write a trio of films for Tom Conway. In addition to Reagan's autobiography, he also wrote ""SAC: The Strategic Air Command"" (1958), ""St. Louis Woman"" with Helen Traubel (1959), ""Big Eight: A Biography of an Airplane"" (1960) ""Straight Up: The Story of Vertical Flight"" (1961) and ""The Cole Porter Story as told to Richard G. Hubler"" (1965). In"
"William Wyler, who would direct the 1959 remake. The black-and-white footage was color tinted and toned in the film's original release print. The studio's publicity department was relentless in promoting the film, advertising it with lines like: ""The Picture Every Christian Ought to See!"" and ""The Supreme Motion Picture Masterpiece of All Time"". Audiences flocked to ""Ben-Hur"" after its premiere in 1925 and the picture became MGM's highest-grossing film, with rentals of $9 million worldwide. Its foreign earnings of $5 million were not surpassed at MGM for at least 25 years. Despite the large revenues, its huge expenses and the"
"and best-known novel, during his spare time at Crawfordsville, and completed it in Santa Fe, while serving as the territorial governor of New Mexico. ""Ben-Hur"", an adventure story of revenge and redemption, is told from the perspective of a Jewish nobleman named Judah Ben-Hur. Because Wallace had not been to the Holy Land before writing the book, he began research to familiarize himself with the area's geography and its history at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in 1873. Harper and Brothers published the book on November 12, 1880. ""Ben-Hur"" made Wallace a wealthy man and established his reputation"
"for director Peter Brook, starring Laurence Olivier. He was also one of the writers of the classic 1959 film, ""Ben-Hur"", directed by William Wyler. But he was uncredited for his efforts on the epic, as was Gore Vidal. The sole writing credit and Academy Award nomination instead went to Karl Tunberg. He collaborated on other screenplays including ""Barabbas"", which starred Anthony Quinn in 1961, and """", directed by John Huston, in 1966. Other screenplays include the documentary ""The Queen Is Crowned"" (1953). His television movie scripts are ""The Canary"" (1950), ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1968), ""The Brontës of Haworth"""
"47 American cities to gauge teenage interest in the film. A high school study guide was also created and distributed. Sindlinger and Company was hired to conduct a nationwide survey to gauge the impact of the marketing campaign. In 1959 and 1960, more than $20 million in candy; children's tricycles in the shape of chariots; gowns; hair barrettes; items of jewelry; men's ties; bottles of perfume; ""Ben-Her"" and ""Ben-His"" towels; toy armor, helmets, and swords; umbrellas; and hardback and paperback versions of the novel (tied to the film with cover art) were sold. ""Ben-Hur"" premiered at Loew's State Theatre in"
"account of Habets' life as a nun. In her 1938 fictionalized autobiography ""We Lived as Children"", Hulme describes a child's perspective of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Kathryn Hulme Kathryn Hulme (July 6, 1900 – August 25, 1981) was an American author and memoirist most noted for her novel ""The Nun's Story"". The book is often misunderstood to be semi-autobiographical. Her 1956 book ""The Nun's Story"" was a best-selling novel which was made into an award-winning 1959 movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter Finch. Another work, ""The Undiscovered Country: A Spiritual Adventure"" published by Little, Brown & Co. was"
"be the most influential is """" by Lew Wallace, and published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. It remained the best-selling American novel of all time, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852) in sales and remaining at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's ""Gone with the Wind"" (1936). ""Ben-Hur"" is a bildungsroman and adventure novel that follows the tumultuous life of its protagonist, Judah Ben-Hur. He is a fictional Jewish noble from Jerusalem who suffers betrayal (by a boyhood friend) and consequently his enslavement and his family's imprisonment"
"as a famous author. Sales were slow at first; only 2,800 copies were sold in the first seven months after its release, but the book became popular among readers around the world. By 1886, it was earning Wallace about $11,000 in annual royalties (equivalent to $290,000 in 2015 dollars), and provided Wallace's family with financial security. By 1889, Harper and Brothers had sold 400,000 copies and the book had been translated into several languages. In 1900, ""Ben-Hur"" became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Amy Lifson, an editor for ""Humanities"", identified"
"realising that forgiveness is more important than revenge. Esther becomes his wife and the mother of his children. Five years after the chariot race, Judah learns from Iras that she killed Messala. In approximately AD 64 (being the tenth year of Nero's reign), Judah finds out about the suffering of their fellow Christians. He gives his fortune to help construct the Catacomb of Callixtus and an underground church within the catacombs. In the Ben-Hur was portrayed by Ramon Novarro. In the 1959 film directed by William Wyler, Ben-Hur was played by Charlton Heston who won the Academy Award for Best"