The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd Schulberg

What Makes Sammy Run?

Budd Schulberg

The classic book that shaped two generations' view of the movie business and introduced the archetypal Hollywood player Sammy Glick. He's got a machete mouth and a genius for double-cross. As Budd Shulberg--author of the screenplay On the Waterfront--follows Sammy's relentless upward progress, he creates a virtuoso study in character that manages to be hilariously appalling yet deeply compassionate.

"Sammy Glick remains at the top of the Hollywood sleaze heap, a hustler nonpareil.... What Makes Sammy Run? Is still the quintessential novel about "the all-American heel.'" - Moredcai Richler, GQ

Book Details

  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Publish Date: Dec 6th, 1993
  • Pages: 352
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.62in - 0.73in - 0.58lb
  • EAN: 9780679734222
  • Categories: Romance - WesternJewishUrban & Street Lit

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Book Lovers, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: The Kiss Quotient, Helen Hoang
Book Cover for: The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood
Book Cover for: This Bird Has Flown, Susanna Hoffs
Book Cover for: Happy Place, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Beach Read, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, Christina Lauren
Book Cover for: My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Christina Lauren
Book Cover for: People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry
Book Cover for: Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert
Book Cover for: Wild Rain: Women Who Dare, Beverly Jenkins
Book Cover for: Love & Other Disasters, Anita Kelly
Book Cover for: This Bird Has Flown, Susanna Hoffs
Book Cover for: The Wedding Crasher, Mia Sosa
Book Cover for: ACT Your Age, Eve Brown, Talia Hibbert

About the Author

Budd Schulberg wrote On the Waterfront, made into a movie starring Marlon Brando, and The Harder They Fall, made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. He won an Oscar for the screenplay of On the Waterfront several awards for his film A Face in the Crowd, and a Tony nomination for his Broadway adaptation of The Disenchanted. He attributed his ability to adapt his own work to stage or screen to his upbringing in Hollywood, where his father ran a major motion-picture studio. He died in 2009 at the age of 95.

More books by Budd Schulberg

Book Cover for: On the Waterfront: The Play, Budd Schulberg
Book Cover for: The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg
Book Cover for: The Harder They Fall, Budd Schulberg
Book Cover for: On the Waterfront, Budd Schulberg
Book Cover for: Some Faces in the Crowd, Short Stories, Budd Schulberg
Book Cover for: Some Faces in the Crowd: Short Stories, Budd Schulberg
Book Cover for: Waterfront, Budd Schulberg