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1 day ago · The Scarlett O'Hara War (a 1980 television dramatization of the casting of Scarlett), Moonlight and Magnolias (a 2007 play by Ron Hutchinson that dramatizes Ben Hecht's five-day re-write of the script), and "Went with the Wind!" (a sketch on The Carol Burnett Show that parodied the film in the aftermath of its television debut in 1976) are ...
3 days ago · Original screenplay by Jo Eisinger, Marion Parsonnet, and Ben Hecht (uncredited) from a story by E.A. Ellington. NOW STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO, APPLE TV+, YOUTUBE 17.
6 days ago · The film’s iconic one-liners have become memorable quotes. Notorious is known for its memorable dialogue, with lines such as “I love you more than any woman’s ever loved a rabbit” becoming iconic in film history. The movie’s suspenseful moments still hold up today
May 16, 2024 · Directed by Billy Wilder and released in 1974, this iconic film is an adaptation of the 1928 Broadway play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Starring Hollywood legends Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, “The Front Page” tells the gripping story of a star reporter and his cynical editor as they chase a big scoop and get caught up in a web of ...
6 days ago · He was a strong-willed man, but invited collaboration from his cast and crew. He truly valued screenwriters, forging relationships with some of the greats: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Jules Furthman, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Charles Lederer, Leigh Brackett, and William Faulkner, during the novelist’s Hollywood sojourns.
May 14, 2024 · Ben Hecht: As one of the most sought-after, celebrated Hollywood screenwriters, Hecht is offered $15,000 by Selznick to rewrite the entire screenplay for Gone with the Wind in five days, the filming of which has come to a complete halt. The problem is that Hecht hasn’t read the novel, and he thinks the film is doomed to failure.
May 9, 2024 · Ben Hecht was an American Jewish journalist, novelist and playwright. I’m very excited because the J x J film festival in Washington, DC, will be showing a sneak preview of the film on May 12. This fall will also be the ninetieth anniversary of Hank Greenberg refusing to play in a pennant game on Yom Kippur in 1934, so I hope to promote the ...
