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Ben Hecht ( / hɛkt /; February 28, 1894 [1] [2] – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A 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 ...
Oct 29, 2015 · A play by Larry Mollin explores the life and legacy of Oscar-winning screenwriter Ben Hecht, who fought for Holocaust awareness and Zionism. The play also focuses on his relationship with his daughter Jenny, who died of a drug overdose in 1971.
Ben Hecht was a prolific and influential screenwriter, playwright and novelist who won two Oscars and wrote classics like Underworld, Scarface and Notorious. He also worked as a journalist, a script doctor and a producer, and was involved in social and political causes.
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Ben Hecht (born February 28, 1894, New York City, New York, U.S.—died April 18, 1964, New York City) was an American novelist, playwright, and film writer who, as a newspaperman in the 1920s, perfected a type of human interest sketch that was widely emulated.
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Ben Hecht. Writer: Notorious. 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. He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing partner and friend Charles MacArthur, with whom he wrote the ...
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Mar 12, 2019 · Pauline Kael called him “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard said he was “a genius” who “invented 80% of what is used in Hollywood movies to...
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Apr 17, 2019 · The Holocaust didn’t surprise him. He had already predicted it in a prewar novella. Hecht didn’t become a Jew in 1939; he became a Zionist. The genocide in Europe, Gorbach points out, along ...
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