In 1925, Ingram and Fred Niblo directed the hugely successful epic Ben-Hur, filming parts of it in Italy.

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** Ben-Hur ( 1925 film ), an MGM silent film starring Ramon Novarro

* Ben-Hur ( 1925 )

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1925 )

Later examples appear in Ben-Hur ( 1925 ) and in Cecil B. DeMille ’ s Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) and Cleopatra ( 1934 ), although the execution of the gesture is still variable.

In 1925, he achieved his greatest success in Ben-Hur, his revealing costumes causing a sensation, and was elevated into the Hollywood elite.

Canutt's mentor and action director for the 1925 Ben-Hur, Breezy Eason was hired as second unit director, and Canutt to coordinate and ramrod the stunts.

* Ben-Hur ( 1925 )

In 1925 the company received its biggest order to date when it had to complete a rush order to supply 600 gallons of light olive makeup to the set of the movie " Ben-Hur " to ensure that the skin color of the extras used in filming undertaken in America would match that of the darker skinned Italian extras in the scenes filmed in Italy.

The cameraman was three-time Academy Award winner color specialist W. Howard Greene, billed as William H. Greene, who also photographed the 2-color Technicolor scenes in Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), in addition to many other early Technicolor films.

Poster for the Ben-Hur ( 1925 film ) | 1925 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo.

" Although audiences flocked to Ben-Hur after its premiere in 1925 and the picture grossed $ 9 million worldwide, its huge expenses and the deal with Erlanger made it a net financial loss for MGM.

A remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name, Ben Hur was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

Present at the premiere were William Wyler, Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet, Martha Scott, Ramon Novarro ( who played Judah Ben-Hur in the 1925 silent film version ), Spyros Skouras ( president of the 20th Century Fox ), Barney Balaban ( president of Paramount Pictures ), Jack Warner ( president of Warner Bros .), Leonard Goldenson ( president of the American Broadcasting Company ), Moss Hart ( playwright ), Robert Kintner ( an ABC Television executive ), Sidney Kingsley ( playwright ), and Adolph Zukor ( founder of Paramount Pictures ).

This four-disc edition included remastered images and audio, an additional commentary, two additional featurettes, and a complete version of the 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

He was the assistant director to Fred Niblo in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur starring Francis X. Bushman and Ramon Novarro.

Also the 1959 film " Ben-Hur ", which starred Charlton Heston.

During the chariot race, Ben-Hur drives four horses, but in the pan and scan version of the film, the audience sometimes sees only two.

To the present day, the 1959 Ben-Hur remains the last MGM film to win a Best Picture Oscar, though Doctor Zhivago, another MGM film, was nominated in 1965.

** Ben-Hur ( 1959 film ), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston that won 11 Academy Awards

June Mathis had moved to Goldwyn Pictures where she was in charge of the Ben-Hur project, and interested in casting Valentino in the film.

This was used in the 1959 film Ben-Hur, which was filmed with the MGM Camera 65 process at an aspect ratio of 2. 76: 1, one of the widest prints ever made.

Although Sleeping Beauty was the second-highest grossing film of 1959 ( just behind Ben-Hur ), the film went over budget costing 6 million dollars and the film failed to make back its expenditure ..

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards.

* November 18-William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loews Theater in New York City.

* December 30: premier of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing 4-6 million dollars ( an astronomical sum when adjusted to inflation )

They would make the first Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott.

As the film entered post-production, Guccione took control of the film footage, fired Brass for running up huge costs ( Guccione claims Brass shot enough film to " make the original version of Ben-Hur about 50 times over "), casting actual criminals as Roman senators, and using what Guccione considered " fat, ugly, and wrinkled old women " in the sex scenes instead of his Penthouse Pets.

The film was nominated for, and won a total of eleven Academy Awards, a record for the number of Oscars won by a single film, and a record that only two other films — Titanic ( 1997 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 )— have matched.

MGM Records also issued albums of film scores, including Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Doctor Zhivago, and How the West Was Won.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ) by Lew Wallace ; famously made into a film starring Charlton Heston ; set in the reign of Tiberius in Judaea, the Mediterranean, and Rome.

The film tied with the most awards nominated with All About Eve and tied with the most awards won with Ben-Hur.

Some of the most successful examples of these Biblical and historical spectaculars include The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), The Vikings ( 1958 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ) and El Cid ( 1961 ).

He also worked as an assistant director on several large-scale international productions shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome, notably Quo Vadis ( 1951 ) and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), financially backed by the American studios.

** Ben-Hur ( play ), a Broadway play

* Ben-Hur Baz ( 1906 – 2003 ), a Mexico painter of pin-up art

* Ben-Hur Moreira Peres ( born 1977 ), a Brazilian football midfielder

Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ), a bestselling book since its publication, and called " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( New York: Harper & Brothers ), 1880.

Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor ), El Cid, and Planet of the Apes.

Notable works included Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), and Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, as well as Best Picture in their respective years.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

* Stephen Boyd ( 1931 – 1977 ) — starred in Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ) and many other films, was born in nearby Whitehouse and lived in Glengormley.

The salute frequently occurs in early 20th century films set in antiquity, such as the American Ben-Hur ( 1907 ) and the Italian Nerone ( 1908 ), although such films do not yet standardize it or make it exclusively Roman.

Gore Vidal, who helped write the screenplay for Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), claimed in his 1995 book " Palimpsest " that Boyd was gay.

His notable Hollywood career earned him considerable fame, including Academy Awards for Spellbound ( 1945 ), A Double Life ( 1947 ), and Ben-Hur ( 1959 ), while his concert works were championed by such major artists as Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, and János Starker.

Other popular scores that he composed for MGM pictures include Quo Vadis ( 1951 ), Ivanhoe ( 1952 ), Ben-Hur, King of Kings and The V. I. P. s.