BEN-HUR FROM METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER WILLIAM WYLER'S PRESENTATION MUSIC BY MIKLOS ROSZA Miklos Rozsa Label: MGM Records ?– S1E1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Gatefold Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack, Score Tracklist A1 Prelude A2 The Adoration Of The Magi A3 Roman March A4 Friendship A5 Love Theme Of Ben-Hur A6 The Burning Desert A7 The Rowing Of The Galley Slaves B1 Naval Battle B2 Return To Judea B3 Victory Parade B4 The Mother's Love B5 The Leper's Search For The Christ B6 The Procession To Calvary B7 The Miracle And Finale Credits Composed By – Miklos Rozsa* Conductor – Carlo Savina Liner Notes – Miklos Rozsa* Orchestra – Symphony Orchestra Of Rome Notes: From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer William Wyler's Presentation of Ben-Hur. MGM Records- A division of Loew's Incorporated-Made/printed in U.S.A. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side A): 59-ST-462-1-C Matrix / Runout (Side B): 59-ST-463-1-D GATEFOLD RECORD ALBUM INCLUDES FILMING NOTES AND PHOTOS ALBUM IS EX+ JACKET IS VG+ 1959 BEN HUR MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK MGM RECORD ALBUM GATEFOLD 1E1 ROZSA WYLER

1959 BEN HUR MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK MGM RECORD ALBUM GATEFOLD 1E1 ROZSA WYLER

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BEN-HUR

FROM METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER

WILLIAM WYLER'S

PRESENTATION

MUSIC BY MIKLOS ROSZA

Miklos Rozsa
Label: MGM Records ?– S1E1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Gatefold 
Country: US
Released: 1959
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Score

Tracklist
A1    Prelude    
A2    The Adoration Of The Magi    
A3    Roman March    
A4    Friendship    
A5    Love Theme Of Ben-Hur    
A6    The Burning Desert    
A7    The Rowing Of The Galley Slaves    
B1    Naval Battle    
B2    Return To Judea    
B3    Victory Parade    
B4    The Mother's Love    
B5    The Leper's Search For The Christ    
B6    The Procession To Calvary    
B7    The Miracle And Finale    

Credits
Composed By – Miklos Rozsa*
Conductor – Carlo Savina
Liner Notes – Miklos Rozsa*
Orchestra – Symphony Orchestra Of Rome
Notes: From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer William Wyler's Presentation of Ben-Hur. 

MGM Records- A division of Loew's Incorporated-Made/printed in U.S.A.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A): 59-ST-462-1-C
Matrix / Runout (Side B): 59-ST-463-1-D

GATEFOLD RECORD ALBUM

INCLUDES FILMING NOTES AND PHOTOS

ALBUM IS EX+

JACKET IS VG+

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FYI 

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.

As a Hollywood star he appeared in 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played major parts in The Ten Commandments (1956); Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor (1959), El Cid (1961), and Planet of the Apes (1968). He also appeared in the films The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Touch of Evil (1958), and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). The starring roles gave the actor a grave, authoritative persona and embodied responsibility, individualism and masculinity; he rejected scripts that did not emphasize those virtues. His media image as a spokesman for Judeo-Christian moral values enabled his political voice.

A supporter of Democratic politicians and civil rights in the 1960s, Heston eventually rejected liberalism, becoming a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston's most famous role in politics came as the five-term president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, he retired from both acting and being the NRA president in 2003. Heston died on April 5, 2008, aged 84, from complications of Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.

From the Winnetka Community Theatre (or the Winnetka Dramatist's Guild, as it was then known) in which he was active, he earned a drama scholarship to Northwestern University; among his acting teachers was Alvina Krause. Several years later Heston teamed up with Bradley to produce the first sound version of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, in which Heston played Mark Antony.

Heston married Northwestern University student Lydia Marie Clarke in the same year he joined the military. After his rise to fame, Heston narrated for highly classified military and Department of Energy instructional films, particularly relating to nuclear weapons, and "for six years Heston held the nation's highest security clearance" or Q clearance." The Q clearance is similar to a DoD or Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) clearance of Top Secret.

In his obituary for the actor, film critic Roger Ebert noted "Heston made at least three movies that almost everybody eventually sees: Ben-Hur, The Ten Commandments and Planet of the Apes."

Heston's cinematic legacy was the subject of Cinematic Atlas: The Triumphs of Charlton Heston, an eleven-film retrospective by the Film Society of the Lincoln Center that was shown at the Walter Reade Theater from August 29 to September 4, 2008.

On April 17, 2010, Heston was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western Performers.

In his childhood hometown of St. Helen, Michigan, a charter school, Charlton Heston Academy, opened on September 4, 2012. It is housed in the former St. Helen Elementary School. Enrollment on the first day was 220 students in grades Kindergarten through 8th.

Charlton Heston was commemorated on a United States postage stamp issued on April 11, 2014.

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880. Considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century", 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 with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. Ben-Hur remained at the top of the bestseller lists until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936). Following the release of the 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur, which was seen by tens of millions and won eleven Academy Awards in 1960, the book's sales increased and it surpassed Gone with the Wind. Blessed by Pope Leo XIII, the novel was the first work of fiction to be so honored. The success of the novel and its stage and film adaptations also helped it became a popular cultural icon that was used to promote numerous commercial products.

The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian. Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, who comes from the same region and is a similar age. The novel reflects themes of betrayal, conviction, and redemption, with a revenge plot that leads to a story of love and compassion.

Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic historical drama film, directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet. 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 screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg but includes contributions from Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry.

Ben-Hur had the largest budget ($15.175 million) as well as the largest sets built of any film produced at the time. Costume designer Elizabeth Haffenden oversaw a staff of 100 wardrobe fabricators to make the costumes, and a workshop employing 200 artists and workmen provided the hundreds of friezes and statues needed in the film. Filming commenced on May 18, 1958 and wrapped on January 7, 1959, with shooting lasting for 12 to 14 hours a day, six days a week. Pre-production began at Cinecittà around October 1957, and post-production took six months. Under cinematographer Robert L. Surtees, MGM executives made the decision to film the picture in a widescreen format, which Wyler strongly disliked. More than 200 camels and 2,500 horses were used in the shooting of the film, with some 10,000 extras. The sea battle was filmed using miniatures in a huge tank on the back lot at the MGM Studios in Culver City, California. The nine-minute chariot race has become one of cinema's most famous sequences, and the film score, composed and conducted by Miklós Rózsa, is the longest ever composed for a film and was highly influential on cinema for more than 15 years.

Following a $14.7 million marketing effort, Ben-Hur premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. It was the fastest-grossing as well as the highest grossing film of 1959, in the process becoming the second-highest grossing film in history at the time after Gone with the Wind. It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography, Color (Surtees), an accomplishment that was not equaled until Titanic in 1997 and then again by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. Ben-Hur also won three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd. Today, Ben-Hur is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, and in 1998 the American Film Institute ranked it the 72nd best American film and the 2nd best American epic film in the AFI's 10 Top 10. In 2004, the National Film Preservation Board selected Ben-Hur for preservation by the National Film Registry for being a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" motion picture.

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