Moving Pictures (74 page)

The three Schulberg children dressed up for a formal portrait,
circa
1929. Stuart at left, Sonya at right

A rare photo of the entire Schulberg family. At left rear is Budd, and next to him his father and mother. In front are Sonya and Stuart, later the long-time producer of The Today Show. B.P. may be glowering because he has literally been dragged home by Budd from Sylvia Sidney’s nearby beachhouse.

When Budd was at Deerfield Academy he decided to write a book about lynching. He turned for advice to Clarence Darrow, who answered him promptly with a letter suggesting that he get his information from Walter White at the NAACP.

The L.A. High School Tennis Team spring, 1931. Budd Schulberg is kneeling extreme right. Kneeling second from left is Budd’s doubles partner, Yale Katz, who later became a prominent physician and subsequently a suicide.

Budd after he won the Malibu Beach Tennis Tournament from Irwin Gelsey (on the right). The cup was donated by Frank Capra. Gelsey, assistant to Walter Wanger, was Paramount’s Tennis Champion.

Sylvia Sidney with another of B.P.’s discoveries, Cary Grant, in
Thirty-Day-Princess

B.P. and Sylvia Sidney,
circa 1932

Mrs. Eddie Goulding; her husband, the celebrated British writer-director; and his agent and friend Ad in St. Moritz, when Budd’s parents were separating (1932) and Ad was travelling on her own.

The 1930 wedding of two of Hollywood’s “noble” families: the Mayers and the Selznicks. Mayer’s biographer, Bosley Crowther, described this as a “quiet” wedding—but although L.B. was less than delighted with his newest son-in-law, pride compelled him to make it the nuptial event of the year. The bride is Irene Mayer; the groom is David O. Selznick. To the groom’s right is his brother, Myron, the first important film agent. To the left of the bride is her father, L.B. Behind the bride and groom is Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin, who three years before had expelled Budd from his Temple.

To L.B.’s left is Irene’s sister, Edith, and the man with the glasses in the same row is her husband, William Goetz. In the cluster of people to the right of Myron Selznick, the farthest right is B.P. Schulberg; the second woman to the right is Janet Gaynor, first Academy Award-winning actress. Immediately below this group is another royal couple, Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg. Above and to the right of the Thalbergs is screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz
(Citizen Kane),
a B.P. Schulberg import from New York. At the extreme left, the third up from the bottom, is MGM’s hatchet man, Eddie Mannix.

Budd Schulberg at about the time he left for Dartmouth (1932)

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