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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880...
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  • novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace following the 1907 silent short film, the 1925 silent film, the Academy Award-winning 1959 film and the...
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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian...
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  • Ben Hur is a 2003 American-Canadian animated drama film based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace. It is the fourth film adaptation...
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    Judah Ben-Hur, shortened to Ben-Hur, is a fictional character, the title character and protagonist from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the...
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  • in 1899 Ben Hur (1907 film), a one-reel silent film adaptation produced by Kalem Studios of New York Ben-Hur (1925 film), an MGM silent film adaptation...
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    title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay...
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    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) originally announced a remake of the 1925 silent film Ben-Hur in December 1952, ostensibly as a way to spend its Italian assets...
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  • The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross...
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    Ben-Hur was an 1899 theatrical adaptation of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace. The story was dramatized by William W. Young...
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  • December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million...
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    Million Dollar Picture". The most expensive film of the silent era was Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), costing about $4 million—twenty-five times...
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  • (1963) Megillas Lester (2014) Ben Hur (1907 short) Ben-Hur (1925) Ben-Hur (1959) Ben Hur (2003) Ben Hur (2010) Ben Hur (2016) Quo Vadis? (1901) (France)...
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  • The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy...
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    synchronized musical score. MGM's 1925 silent-era Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, starring Ramon Novarro was the most expensive film of its time. It included two...
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    Kathleen Key (category American film actresses)
    remembered for playing Tirzah in the 1925 film Ben-Hur. Born in Buffalo, New York, Key made her debut in the 1920 Australian film The Jackeroo of Coolabong, playing...
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    Yakima Canutt (category American male film actors)
    bigger pictures and budgets. Canutt's mentor and action director for the 1925 Ben-Hur, Breezy Eason, was hired as second unit director, and Canutt to coordinate...
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  • which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). December 7 – First Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott and produced by the Kalem Company, released...
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  • Sam Zimbalist (category American film producers)
    that time, the 1959 epic Ben-Hur. Zimbalist collapsed suddenly of a heart attack on set in Rome, Italy, during filming of Ben-Hur. He was taken to his villa...
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    Birth of a Nation was ever overtaken by a silent-era film, the record would fall to 1925's Ben-Hur ($9,386,000) if The Birth of a Nation earned significantly...
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    William Wyler (category American film directors)
    times, for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture. He was Oscar-nominated...
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    William Wyler filmography (category Films directed by William Wyler)
    Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and the biblical epic Ben-Hur (1959), all three went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture...
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    May McAvoy (category American film actresses)
    mainly during the silent-film era. Some of her major roles are Laura Pennington in The Enchanted Cottage, Esther in Ben-Hur, and Mary Dale in The Jazz...
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    Hollywood on the Tiber (category Film and video terminology)
    no new films were made until 1948. Although American companies had shot in Italy before (such as Fox's 1922 silent Nero and MGM's 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale...
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  • (2005) Barbarians (2020) - TV series Ben-Hur (1925) Salome (1953) Ben Hur (1959) King of Kings (1961) Masada (1981) Ben Hur (2016) Risen (2016) Slave of Rome...
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  • Heo (redirect from Hur (Korean surname))
    Heo is a family name in Korea. It is also often spelled as Hur or Huh, or less commonly as Her. In South Korea in 1985, out of a population of between...
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    gained popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, further inspired by the 1925 film Ben-Hur. It went largely (although not entirely) extinct after that, although...
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  • won three Academy Awards for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben-Hur. Surtees worked at various studios...
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    Fred Niblo (category American male film actors)
    Niblo directed the film Thy Name Is Woman. In 1925, Niblo was the principal director of the epic Ben-Hur, one of the more expensive films of the day but became...
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    Frank Currier (category American male film actors)
    130 films between 1912 and 1928. He also directed 19 films in 1916. He is memorable in the 1925 film Ben-Hur as the Roman Admiral who adopts Judah Ben-Hur...
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