* Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, " Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ".

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is an 1880 novel by American general and author Lew Wallace

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.

While serving as governor, Wallace completed his second novel, which made him famous: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ).

* Lew Wallace, 11th governor of New Mexico Territory, Union general in the American Civil War, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

In 1880, prominent local citizen Lew Wallace produced Crawfordsville's most famous literary work, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a historical novel dealing with the beginnings of the Christianity in the Mediterranean world.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

His negotiations with governor Lew Wallace ( a famed Civil War general and author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ) for amnesty came to nothing.

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

* February 15-General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The play, based on Lew Wallace's book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, opened on Broadway in November, 1899 and proved to be a great success.

* 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.

* A supporting character in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and its various adaptations

It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

* Judah Ben-Hur from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1887 printing, scanned book via Internet Archive

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

Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, one of the best-selling books at that time.

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.

* The Story of the Making of ' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ '.

Ben Hur is a 2003 animated film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace.

With the Crucifixion, Ben-Hur recognizes that the Christ stands for a different goal than revenge, and he becomes Christian, turning to supporting the new religion with money which he has inherited, inspired by love and the talk of keys to a greater kingdom than any on earth.

Ben-Hur is shocked at how his supporters have deserted Christ in his time of need.

Ben-Hur is eventually reunited with his mother and sister, who are suffering from leprosy but are miraculously cured by Christ.

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

Ben-Hur premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959.

" Bosley Crowther, writing for the New York Times, called Ben-Hur " a remarkably intelligent and engrossing human drama ".

They had four children together, one of whom was Lew Wallace, author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ and Governor of New Mexico Territory.

In 1908, perhaps seeking to capitalize on the publicity of the case and the film, Harper & Brothers published a lavishly designed and illustrated book, The Chariot Race from Ben-Hur, which excerpted only the race from Lew Wallace's novel.

** Ben-Hur Museum, now renamed General Lew Wallace Study & Museum

Ben-Hur Products, a similar California-based company, was acquired in 1953, and Canada's largest spice firm, Gorman Eckert & Co. Ltd. of London, Ontario, was acquired in 1959.

The operations of Klaw & Erlanger produced dozens of Broadway shows during the first three decades of the 20th century, including Dracula, Ben-Hur, and The Jazz Singer.

Klaw & Erlanger's production of Ben-Hur

Klaw & Erlanger controlled most of the theatres in the southern United States and put on their first Broadway production of Ben-Hur in November 1899.

( 1955 ), the Olivier Richard III ( 1955 ), the travelogue Cinerama Holiday ( 1955 ), Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), the Audrey Hepburn-Henry Fonda War and Peace ( 1956 ), the all-star Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), the Technicolor Ten Commandments ( 1956 ), the Cinerama documentary Seven Wonders of the World ( 1956 ), Giant ( 1956 ), The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), Raintree County ( 1957 ), the Cinerama Search for Paradise ( 1957 ), the Cinemiracle documentary Windjammer ( 1958 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ), the Cinerama travelogue South Seas Adventure ( 1958 ), The Big Country ( 1958 ), the Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge Porgy and Bess ( 1959 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) with Charlton Heston, Disney's Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ) ( an animated feature only seventy-five minutes long with no intermission ), John Wayne's The Alamo ( 1960 ), Spartacus ( 1960 ), Exodus ( 1960 ), Can-Can ( 1960 ), Scent of Mystery ( 1961 ), El Cid ( 1961 ), King of Kings ( 1961 ), The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), ( shown only occasionally in roadshow format despite its length of more than two-and-a-half hours ), Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1962 ), The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ( 1962 ), How the West Was Won ( 1962 ), The Longest Day ( 1962 ), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ), The Cardinal ( 1963 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), the Richard Burton Hamlet ( 1964 ), My Fair Lady ( 1964 ), The Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1964 ), The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), the Olivier Othello ( 1965 ), Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), The Great Race ( 1965 ), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), Khartoum ( 1966 ), Cinerama's Russian Adventure ( 1966 ), Hawaii ( 1966 ), The Blue Max ( 1966 ), Grand Prix ( 1966 ), Half a Sixpence ( 1967 ), Camelot ( 1967 ), The Happiest Millionaire ( 1967 ), Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ), The Lion in Winter ( 1968 ), Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ), Oliver!

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 ( 1925 film ), an MGM silent film starring Ramon Novarro

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

** 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

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,

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 ..

* 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.

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.

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.