released over five months after Alexander Korda's death from a heart attack. Ben-Hur (1959), released over a year after Sam Zimbalist's death from a heart attack...

$2 million, making it MGM's most expensive film since the 1925 silent Ben-Hur. Like most Shakespearean filmmakers, Cukor and his screenwriter Talbot...

August Strindberg; A Doll's House – Henrik Ibsen 1880 in literature – Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace; Workers in the Dawn – George Gissing; Nana – Émile Zola;...