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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 · “He was certainly influenced by the hard-boiled attitude of other newshounds in his early days chasing stories” notes Julien Gorbach, author of The Notorious Ben Hecht, “Like many others who lived through the carnage of those years, Hecht developed a grim view of human nature and he looked back at the liberal Enlightenment-era optimism ...
Feb 4, 2019 · Ben Hecht, the greatest of American screenwriters, produced, near the end of his career, ... In Hitchcock’s “Notorious” (1946), a seemingly worthless party girl (Ingrid Bergman) goes to work ...
Apr 17, 2019 · “Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures,” by Adina Hoffman, an accomplished literary biographer, and “The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist,” by the first ...
- Mark Horowitz
Jun 1, 2020 · Ben Hecht (1893–1964) was among the more enigmatic figures who defined American popular culture between 1910 and 1960. Adept at many mediums, Hecht achieved for
- Michael W Rubinoff
- 2020
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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 ...
- Julien Gorbach
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...
