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He was Hollywood "royalty", the son of B.P. Schulberg , head of Paramount Pictures and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe . Budd Schulberg is best known for his 1941 novel, '' What Makes Sammy Run '', his 1947 novel '' The Harder They Fall '', his 1954 Academy-award-winning screenplay for '' On The Waterfront '', and his 1957 screenplay '' A Face In The Crowd ''. He encountered political controversy in , 1951 , p. 16. Schulberg "testified voluntarily before {Link without Title} today that he became a Communist during the late Nineteen Thirties but quit the party when it tried to dictate what he should write." He named John Howard Lawson, one of the Hollywood Ten , as trying to pressure him to write under part guidance, and "named names" of Waldo Salt , Ring Lardner Jr. , Lester Cole , John Bright , Paul Jarrico , Gordon Kahn , writers; Herbert Biberman , director; and Meta Reis Rosenberg , agent. His testimony saw many of his colleagues added to the Hollywood Blacklist . Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then went on to Dartmouth College , where he was actively involved in the '' Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern '' humor magazine. In 1939 he collaborated on the screenplay for '' Winter Carnival '', a light comedy set at Dartmouth. One of his collaborators was F. Scott Fitzgerald , who was at the time attempting to pursue a Hollywood career. Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary degree in 1960 . In 1950 Schulberg published a novel, '' The Disenchanted '', about a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist at the nadir of his career. The novelist (who at the time was assumed by reviewers to be a thinly disguised portrait of Fitzgerald, dead ten years earlier) is portrayed as a tragic but contemptible figure, with whom the young screenwriter becomes disillusioned. According to the New York Times , it was the tenth Bestselling Novel In The United States in 1950. '' The Disenchanted '' was adapted to an off-Broadway play in the early- 1960s and starred Jason Robards Jr. . In 1965 , after a devastating riot had ripped apart the fabric of the Watts community in Los Angeles , Schulberg formed the Watts Writers Workshop as an attempt to ameliorate frustrations and bring artistic training to the economically impoverished district. He is married to his fourth wife, Betsey, and has two children, Benn and Jessica. He resides in Westhampton , Long Island, New York . His niece Sandra Schulberg was an executive producer of the Academy Award nominated film Quills , among other movies. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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