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Karl Tunberg (March 11, 1907 − April 3, 1992) was an American screenwriter and occasional film producer. [1] His screenplays for Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941) and Ben-Hur (1959) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay , respectively.
The original screenwriter, Karl Tunberg, had written just three words ("the chariot race") to describe the now-famous sequence, and no other writer had enlarged on his description. [75] Marton and Canutt wrote 38 pages of script that outlined every aspect of the race, including action, stunts, camera shots and angles. [75]
Count Your Blessings is a 1959 American romantic comedy drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was directed by Jean Negulesco, written and produced by Karl Tunberg, based on the 1951 novel The Blessing by Nancy Mitford.
Up in Central Park is a 1948 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes and Vincent Price.Based on the play Up in Central Park by Herbert Fields with a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, the film is about a newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man who help expose political corruption in New York City in the 1870s.
Beau Brummell is a 1954 British historical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was directed by Curtis Bernhardt and produced by Sam Zimbalist from a screenplay by Karl Tunberg, based on the 1890 play Beau Brummell by Clyde Fitch.
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? is a 1968 American comedy film with Doris Day, directed by Hy Averback.Although it is set in New York City during the infamous Northeast blackout of 1965, in which 25 million people scattered throughout seven states in the Northeastern United States lost electricity for several hours, the screenplay by Everett Freeman and Karl Tunberg is based on the ...
According to Vidal, Karl Tunberg was one of the last writers to work on the script. Other sources place Tunberg's initial involvement much earlier. Tunberg cut out everything in the book after the crucifixion of Jesus, omitted the sub-plot in which Ben-Hur fakes his death and raises a Jewish army to overthrow the Romans, and altered the manner ...
Gilbert said that the original writer-producer Karl Tunberg felt Capucine, who was the mistress of Charlie Feldman and was cast as Holden's Eurasian mistress, was miscast; he also says William Holden had already worked with Capucine on The Lion and did not want to do it again so it seemed Capucine would be replaced.