The novel was overlooked and left undeveloped for fifteen years until producer Sam Spiegel and Huston bought the rights.

In 1954 he sued producer Sam Spiegel for copyright infringement.

An " odd job " Turnbull picked up while in Africa at this time was working for the Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel.

It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson.

Alec Guinness had previously played Lawrence in the play Ross, and was briefly considered for the part, but David Lean and Sam Spiegel thought him too old.

Sam Spiegel pushed Lean to cast Cary Grant or Laurence Olivier ( who was engaged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and declined ).

's younger brother and literary executor, who had sold the rights to Seven Pillars of Wisdom to Sam Spiegel for £ 25, 000.

Sam Spiegel grew furious and unsuccessfully attempted to have the play suppressed, furore at which helped to gain publicity for the film.

Lean and Sam Spiegel were coming off the huge success of The Bridge on the River Kwai, and were eager to work together again.

However Finney baulked at signing a multi-year contract for Producer Sam Spiegel and chose not to accept the role.

The producer of the Lawrence film, Sam Spiegel, persuaded Bolt to sign after he had served only two weeks.

Among their first clients were Sam Spiegel and John Huston, whose " Horizon Productions " gave UA one major hit, The African Queen ( 1951 ) and one slightly less successful one, Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), based on the life of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Though Hellman received sole credit for the screenplay, she worked from an earlier treatment, and director Sam Spiegel made additional changes and altered the sequence of scenes.

* Sam Spiegel

Sam Spiegel ( November 11, 1901 – December 31, 1985 ) was an Austrian-born American independent film producer.

From 1996, they have made an annual contribution, through the Jerusalem Foundation, to the film school in Jerusalem bearing his name since that time — the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem.

In 2005, the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, the Jerusalem Municipality complied with a request from the school's founder-director Renen Schorr to mark the occasion by declaring the lane in the Talpiot industrial section where the school is located " The Sam Spiegel Alley.

" The street sign's inscription: " Sam Spiegel – Jewish-American Film Producer and Oscar-winner.

* Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni: Sam Spiegel: The incredible life and times of Hollywood's most iconoclastic producer, the miracle worker who went from penniless refugee to show biz legend, and made possible The African Queen, On the waterfront, the bridge over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia, a passage to india.

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In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Sam Rayburn was a good man, a good American, and, third, a good Democrat.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

Under any name -- Mr. Speaker, Mr. Democrat, Mr. Sam -- he was a good man.

`` Uncle Sam '' was, indeed, a rich uncle to Prokofieff, in those opulent, post-war victory years of peace and prosperity, bold speculations and extravaganzas, enjoyment and pleasure: `` The Golden Twenties ''.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

One month later, Johnston was promoted to major and the position of aide-de-camp to General Sam Houston.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

The Ark was taken by the Philistines ( 1 Sam.

The people of Ashdod were smitten with hemorrhoids ; a plague of rats was sent over the land ( 1 Sam.

The affliction of boils was also visited upon the people of Gath and of Ekron, whither the Ark was successively removed ( 1 Sam.

The Ark was set in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and the Beth-shemites offered sacrifices and burnt offerings ( 1 Sam.

David's plan of building a temple for the Ark was stopped at the advice of God ( 2 Sam.

The Ark was with the army during the siege of Rabbah ( 2 Sam.

11: 11 ); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem ( 2 Sam.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

He was of great service to David, especially at the time of the rebellion of Absalom ( 2 Sam.

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.