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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
- April 18, 1964 (aged 70), New York City, U.S.
- February 28, 1894, New York City, U.S.
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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Apr 17, 2019 · April 17, 2019. BEN HECHT. Fighting Words, Moving Pictures. By Adina Hoffman. THE NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT. Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist. By Julien Gorbach. For understandable...
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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 ...
- February 28, 1894
- April 18, 1964
Jul 12, 2019 · “Hecht was among the very worst judges of his own talents,” Hoffman writes. His talents, of course, were plentiful. Few artists can be said to have invented new genres with enduring influence...
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...
(1894 - 1964) 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. He attended high school in Wisconsin after his family moved there.
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