It’s about much more than simple entertainment, they said. — -- “Ben-Hur,” the epic 1959 tale, is coming back to the big screen today, this time re-imagined for a new generation of moviegoers.
It was easy enough for Virginia Van Upp to go unrecognized when she settled into a seat in the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville on the evening of Sept. 28, 1939. The filmmaker had plunked her 25 ...