Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist...
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considered among the best of the period, and he, along with writer friends Ben Hecht and Herman Mankiewicz, became major contributors to the film genre known...
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wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted...
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Scarface (1932 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes. The screenplay, by Ben Hecht, is based loosely on the novel first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail...
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dedicated this version of Scarface to the memories of Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, the director and screenwriter, respectively, of the original film. Filming...
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playwriting. MacArthur is best known for his plays in collaboration with Ben Hecht, Ladies and Gentlemen (filmed as Perfect Strangers), Twentieth Century...
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and known for its singularly vicious ending. Written by W.R. Burnett, Ben Hecht (uncredited), and John Lee Mahin, and directed by Charles Brabin, the...
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revolt against a cruel Venusian queen, is based on an idea supplied by Ben Hecht and originally titled Queen of the Universe. Upon its release, the film...
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epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen,...
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Scarface was the first film in which Hawks worked with screenwriter Ben Hecht, who became a close friend and collaborator for 20 years. After filming...
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so Selznick brought in the screenwriter Ben Hecht to rewrite the entire screenplay within five days. Hecht returned to Howard's original draft and, by...
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Design for Living (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Ben Hecht, based on the 1932 play of the same name by Noël Coward. Starring Fredric...
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Notorious (1946 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
three weeks of collaboration with Ben Hecht, whom he had just worked with on Spellbound. The two would work at Hecht's house, with Hitchcock repairing at...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
produced by Otto Preminger. The screenplay for the film was written by Ben Hecht, and adapted by Robert E. Kent, Frank P. Rosenberg, and Victor Trivas...
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adapted by Charles Lederer, with uncredited rewrites from Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, from the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell. The story...
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Kiss of Death (1947 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
is a 1947 American film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. The story revolves...
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Angels with Dirty Faces (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American crime drama film directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Brothers. It stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, The Dead...
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seven films with actress Marlene Dietrich. Journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht won an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Boisterous gangster kingpin...
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1920s through the 1940s. She was married to filmmaker and journalist Ben Hecht. Rose was born into a Jewish family in Vilna, in what was then the Russian...
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Trapeze (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
Productions Hecht & Buzzell Music Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Films Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions (Australia) Hecht-Lancaster...
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Barbary Coast (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
one of sordidness, and low-tone morality." After months of revisions by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the story changed from a story of an area of San...
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and Pat O'Brien. Based on the 1928 Broadway play of the same name by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written...
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Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 play of the same name (which inspired several...
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The Front Page (category Plays by Ben Hecht)
newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted...
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Spellbound (1945 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
treatment, screenwriter Ben Hecht began writing the screenplay. Between May and July 1944, Selznick submitted numerous drafts of Hecht's screenplay for approval...
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with uncredited input from six additional writers—David O. Selznick, Ben Hecht, Ring Lardner Jr., John Lee Mahin, Budd Schulberg and Adela Rogers St...
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Legend of the Lost (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
of the Lost 1957 movie poster Directed by Henry Hathaway Screenplay by Ben Hecht Robert Presnell Produced by Henry Hathaway John Wayne Starring John Wayne...
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writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and...
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hard-drinking gambler," however, he hired men in his own image, such as Ben Hecht, Bartlett Cormack, Edwin Justus Mayer—writers comfortable with the iconoclasm...
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O. Henry's Full House (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
by Howard Hawks, from a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, rewritten by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer (none of whom were credited), it stars Fred Allen...
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