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- Category: Motion pictures
- Star rank: 2036
- Address:
1500 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing south
- GPS location:
34.098309, -118.326518
B.P. Schulberg
Biography
B.P. Schulberg
Source: theoscarsite.com
B.P. Schulberg (January 19, 1892 – February 25, 1957) was a pioneer film producer and movie studio executive. Born Benjamin Percival Schulberg in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 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. He joined Louis B. Mayer to form “Mayer-Schulberg Studio” but after Mayer became part of MGM, Schulberg would join with Adolph Zukor and became the head of Paramount 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.”
Fact file
- Birthname: Benjamin Percival Schulberg
- Born: January 19, 1892
- Died: February 25, 1957
- Occupation: Film Producer and Studio Executive.
Read more about B.P. Schulberg at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
Vine St, east side, between Sunset and Selma
Nearby you will also find Spike Jones, The Beach Boys, Dick Clark, Leo McCarey, and many others.