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Ben Hecht was born on February 28, 1894, in New York, New York. While he was a child, his family moved to Racine, Wisconsin, where he met his “first mentor,” the trapeze artist Harry Costello.
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Norman Jewison's 1969 film "Gaily, Gaily" was based loosely on Hecht's 1963 book which included reminiscences about his exploits as a reporter. However, for some reason, "Ben Hecht" was homogenized down to "Ben Harvey" in the final product and most critics felt that little of the author's legendary wit made the transition to the screen.
Ben Hecht was a Jewish American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is most famous for his influence in helping Hollywood expose the true nature of the Holocaust . Hecht was born in New York City on February 28, 1894, to Russian-Jewish immigrants.
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films.
Ben Hecht left the University of Wisconsin for Chicago in 1910 and became a newspaper reporter. His reporting trained him to capture a story, and how to observe what was happening in the world. In his early career as a reporter and a partner in the Grady Rutledge publicity firm, Hecht played a major role in organizing campaigns against the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s.
