
Person
Ben Hecht
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Feb 28, 1894
- Died
- Apr 18, 1964
- From
- New York City, New York, USA
Ben Hecht (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Angels Over Broadway

Crime Without Passion

The Scoundrel

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Actors and Sin

The Front Page

Scarface

Spellbound

Wuthering Heights

His Girl Friday

Kiss of Death

North to Alaska

Twentieth Century

Monkey Business

Switching Channels

Comrade X

Trapeze

The Iron Petticoat