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Ben-Hur became a hit show, selling 25,000 tickets per week. [7] [10] [11] The play reopened in New York City on September 3, 1900, and ran for eighteen non-consecutive years on Broadway. [12] The play's twenty-one-year national tour included large venues in cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Baltimore.
Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film [1] directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the 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 .
Photo of the theatre's interior in 1959. The Loew's State Theatre was a movie theater at 1540 Broadway on Times Square in New York City.Designed by Thomas Lamb in the Adam style, [1] it opened on August 29, 1921, as part of a 16-story office building for the Loew's Theatres company, with a seating capacity of 3,200 [2] and featuring both vaudeville and films.
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 book of the nineteenth century". [1] It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels ...
May Irene McAvoy [citation needed] (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) [1] was an American actress who worked 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 Singer.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace Ben-Hur, a play that debuted on Broadway in 1899; Ben Hur, a one-reel silent film adaptation produced by Kalem Studios of New York; Ben-Hur, an MGM silent film adaptation starring Ramon Novarro
The Ben-Hur score has been considered to be the best of Rózsa's career. [161] The musical soundtrack to Ben-Hur remained deeply influential into the mid 1970s, when film music composed by John Williams for films such as Jaws, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark became more popular among composers and film-goers. [162]
William Millar (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977), better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland.He emerged as a leading man during the late 1950s with his role as the villainous Messala in Ben-Hur (1959), a role that earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.