Budd Schulberg
...ay only to divorce her six years later. In 1936, Budd Schulberg became a screenwriter while continuing to write short stories for Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post. Schulberg had no fear of presenting his generally unaccepted views and belonged to the Communist Party. Although, his views were not evident in his first two screenplays: Little Orphan Annie (1938) and White Carnival (1939). In 1939, Schulberg lost his job at Paramount, because of the failure of White Carnival, and left Hollywood for the east coast. While living in Vermont he wrote his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? Schulberg won the award presented by the National Critics’ for the Best First Novel of the Year in 1941. After his initial literary success, Schulberg moved to Mexico to continue writing. Schulberg returned to the States to serve in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Junior Grade during World War I. He was a member of the documentary unit and won an Oscar for writing December 7th with James Kevin McGuiness. He also did rewrites in Frank Wead’s screenplay They Were Expendable. After the war, Schulberg married Victoria Anderson in 1943 and divorced her twenty-one years later. Schulberg’s most famous work is On the Waterfront (1954) directed by Elia Kazan. The screenplay originated from a series of articles written by Schulberg about the waterfront struggles, articles written by Malcolm Johnson, and personal interviews with the longshoreman. When the screenplay was originally present...