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Who was Budd Schulberg 's spouse from Dec 1936 to 1943?
Budd Schulberg Budd Schulberg ( born Seymour Wilson Schulberg , March 27 , 1914 – August 5 , 2009 ) was an American screenwriter , television producer , novelist and sports writer . He was known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run ? and The Harder They Fall , his Academy Award-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront , and his screenplay for A Face in the Crowd . Early life and education . Schulberg was raised in a Jewish family the son of Hollywood film-producer B.P . Schulberg and Adeline ( née Jaffe ) Schulberg , who founded a talent agency taken over by her brother , agent/film producer Sam Jaffe . In 1931 , when Schulberg was 17 , his father left the family to live with actress Sylvia Sidney . His parents divorced in 1933 . Schulberg attended Deerfield Academy and then went on to Dartmouth College , where he was actively involved in the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern humor magazine and was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity . 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 fired because of his alcoholic binge during a visit with Schulberg to Dartmouth . Dartmouth College awarded Schulberg an honorary degree in 1960 . World War II . While serving in the Navy during World War II , Schulberg was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) , working with John Fords documentary unit . Following VE Day , he was reportedly among the first American servicemen to liberate the Nazi concentration camps . He was involved in gathering evidence against war criminals for the Nuremberg Trials , an assignment that included arresting documentary film maker Leni Riefenstahl at her chalet in Kitzbühel , Austria , ostensibly to have her identify the faces of Nazi war criminals in German film footage captured by the Allied troops . Riefenstahl claimed she was not aware of the nature of the concentration camps . According to Schulberg , She gave me the usual song and dance . She said Of course , you know , Im really so misunderstood . Im not political . Career . Being the son of a successful Hollywood producer gave Schulberg an insiders viewpoint on the true happenings of Hollywood , which was reflected in much of his writing . His 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run ? allowed the public to see the harshness of Hollywood stardom via Sammy Glicks rise to power in a major Hollywood film studio . This novel was criticized by some as being self-directed anti-semitism . Then a member of the Communist Party USA , Schulberg quit in protest after he was ordered by high-ranking Party member John Howard Lawson to make changes to the novel . In 1950 , Schulberg published 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 was then assumed by reviewers to be a thinly disguised portrait of Fitzgerald , who had died 10 years earlier ) is portrayed as a tragic , flawed figure , with whom the young screenwriter becomes disillusioned . The novel was the tenth bestselling novel in the United States in 1950 and was adapted as a Broadway play in 1958 , starring Jason Robards ( who won a Tony Award for his performance ) and George Grizzard as the character loosely based on Schulberg . In 1958 , Schulberg wrote and co-produced ( with his younger brother Stuart ) the film Wind Across the Everglades , directed by Nicholas Ray . Schulberg wrote the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd . Based on the short story in his book Some Faces in the Crowd , the film starred newcomer Andy Griffith as an obscure country singer who rises to fame and becomes extraordinarily manipulative to preserve his success and power . Schulberg encountered political controversy in 1951 when screenwriter Richard Collins , testifying to the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) , named Schulberg as a former member of the Communist Party . Schulberg , still resentful of the influence Communist officials tried to exert over his fiction , testified as a friendly witness and explained how Communist Party members had sought to influence the content of What Makes Sammy Run ? and named names of other Hollywood communists Schulberg was also a sports writer and former chief boxing correspondent for Sports Illustrated . He wrote some well-received books on boxing , including Sparring with Hemingway . He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his contributions to the sport . In 1965 , after a devastating riot had ripped apart the fabric of the Watts section of Los Angeles , Schulberg formed the Watts Writers Workshop in an attempt to ease frustrations and bring artistic training to the economically impoverished district . In 1982 , Schulberg wrote Moving Pictures , Memoirs of a Hollywood Prince , an autobiography covering his youth in Hollywood growing up in the 1920s and 1930s among the famous motion picture actors and producers as the son of B.P . Schulberg , head of Paramount Studios . Personal life and death . Schulberg was married four times . In 1936 , he married his first wife , actress Virginia Jigee Lee Ray . They had one daughter , Victoria , before divorcing in 1942 . In 1943 , he married Victoria Vickee Anderson . They divorced in 1964 . They had two children : Stephen ( born 1944 ) and David ( born 1946 ) . David was a Vietnam veteran who predeceased his father . In 1964 , he married actress Geraldine Brooks . They were married until her death in 1977 ; they had no children . In 1977 , he married Betsy Ann Langman , stepdaughter of real estate developer Robert E . Simon , granddaughter of investment banker Maurice Wertheim and great-granddaughter of US ambassador Henry Morgenthau Sr. ; they had two children : Benn and Jessica . His niece Sandra Schulberg was an executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated film Quills . His mother , of The Ad Schulberg Agency , served as his agent until her death in 1977 . His brother , Stuart Schulberg , was a movie and television producer ( David Brinkleys Journal , The Today Show ) . His sister , Sonya Schulberg ( OSullivan ) ( 1918-2016 ) was an occasional writer ( novel They Cried a Little and stories ) . Budd Schulberg died August 5 , 2009 in his home in Quiogue , New York , aged 95 . Select film and TV credits . - A Star Is Born ( 1937 ) - uncredited writer - Nothing Sacred ( 1937 ) - uncredited writer - On the Waterfront ( 1954 ) - story , script - The Harder They Fall ( 1956 ) - based on his novel - A Face in the Crowd ( 1957 ) - story , script - Wind Across the Everglades ( 1958 ) - script , producer , uncredited directo