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Ben Hecht (/ h ɛ k t /; February 28, 1894 – 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.
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- Comedy, newspapers, gangster
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- February 28, 1894, New York City, U.S.
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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- New York City, New York, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
Apr 17, 2019 · Adina Hoffman’s “Ben Hecht” and Julien Gorbach’s “The Notorious Ben Hecht” examine the man’s career as both a screenwriter and a political activist.
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Feb 28, 2019 · Learn about Ben Hecht, one of the most prolific and influential screenwriters in Hollywood history, who also became a militant Zionist and a vocal critic of Nazi Germany. Discover his achievements, challenges, and legacy in this article from Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News.
Apr 14, 2024 · 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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Feb 4, 2019 · Ben Hecht, the greatest of American screenwriters, produced, near the end of his career, a garrulous autobiography, “A Child of the Century,” in which he tells us the following: In 1910, at ...
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 ...