巴迪 舒尔伯格

Budd Schulberg, the son of the Hollywood movie producer, Benjamin Schulberg, was born in New York on 27th March, 1914.

After being educated at Dartmouth College, he became a screenwriter at Paramount. Schulberg held left-wing views and was a member of the Communist Party (1937-40). However, these views were not evident in his first two screenplays, Little Orphan Annie (1938) and White Carnival (1939).

Schulberg lost his job with Paramount. after the failure of White Carnival and he turned to writing novels. His first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), a satire of Hollywood power and corruption. He followed this with a novel about boxing, The Harder They Fall (1947).

In 1947 the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) began an investigation into the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry. The HUAC interviewed 41 people who were working in Hollywood. These people attended voluntarily and became known as "friendly witnesses". During t