Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. After graduating from high school in 1910, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops." In the 1910s and 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the late 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, The Front Page, became a Broadway hit. The Dictionary of Literary Biography – American Screenwrit...
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Switching Channels
Circus World
Walk on the Wild Side
Billy Rose's Jumbo
North to Alaska
Queen of Outer Space
The Fiend Who Walked the West
Legend of the Lost
A Farewell to Arms
The Iron Petticoat
Trapeze
Miracle in the Rain
The Indian Fighter
Ulysses
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Angel Face
Monkey Business
The Thing from Another World
September Affair
Edge of Doom
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Whirlpool
Roseanna McCoy
The Twentieth Century
Portrait of Jennie
The Miracle of the Bells
Ride the Pink Horse
Kiss of Death
Her Husband's Affairs
Duel in the Sun
Notorious
Cornered
Spellbound
Lifeboat
China Girl
The Black Swan
Tales of Manhattan
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Lydia
Second Chorus
Comrade X
His Girl Friday
Wuthering Heights
Let Freedom Ring
Some Like It Hot
Gunga Din
It's a Wonderful World
Lady of the Tropics
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Goldwyn Follies
Woman Chases Man
King of Gamblers
Nothing Sacred
The Florentine Dagger
Barbary Coast
The President Vanishes
Upperworld
Riptide
Viva Villa!
Shoot the Works
Twentieth Century
Design for Living
Turn Back the Clock
Hallelujah I'm a Bum
Topaze
Scarface
The Unholy Garden
Homicide Squad
Quick Millions
The Front Page
The Green Specter
Roadhouse Nights
The Unholy Night
The Great Gabbo
The Big Noise
Underworld
The New Klondike