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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • (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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    George Walsh (category American male film actors)
    Judah Ben-Hur, in the planned picturization of the classic story of Ben-Hur, by Lew Wallace. The word "fiasco" has been attached to Ben-Hur (1925). Early...
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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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    Ben-Hur in 1899 and as Simonides in a 1900 revival of Ben-Hur. He did much touring in stock companies up until he started appearing in silent films....
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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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  • 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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  • (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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    1920s (section 1925)
    films were popular in this decade, with the highest-grossing film of this decade being either 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film Ben-Hur:...
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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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