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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 ...
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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.
Feb 28, 2019 · Who was Ben Hecht? What you need to know about the “Notorious” Screenwriter February 28th, 2019. Born on this day 125 years ago, Ben Hecht is one of American history’s most complicated and compelling figures. Here’s what you need to know to become familiar with the prolific screenwriter and activist.
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...
Apr 17, 2019 · THE NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT. Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist. By Julien Gorbach. For understandable reasons, biographies about Ben Hecht have focused almost exclusively on his...
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Mar 15, 2019 · The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist is a biography of a great twentieth-century writer that treats his activism during the 1940s as the central drama of his life. It details the story of how Hecht earned admiration as a humanitarian and vilification as an extremist at this pivotal moment in history, about the ...
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- Julien Gorbach
- $21.54
- Purdue University Press
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2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist forBiography. Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-rowpsychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the ti...
Jun 1, 2020 · Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist | Journal of American History | Oxford Academic. Journal Article. The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist. By. Julien. Gorbach. . ( West Lafayette. : Purdue University. , 2019. . xxiv. , 455. pp. Paper, $32.95.) Michael W Rubinoff.
