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  1. 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. His play The Front Page (1928), written with Charles MacArthur, influenced the ...

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  2. Apr 16, 2024 · The news was, for the most part, ignored, except by two men whose lives are largely forgotten now: Ben Hecht, an acclaimed American-Jewish playwright, and Peter Bergson, an underground fighter in pre-state Israel. They joined forces to produce a pageant in Madison Square Garden in March 1943 designed to save the 4 million Jews still alive under ...

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  3. Apr 19, 2024 · Charles MacArthur (born Nov. 5, 1895, Scranton, Pa., U.S.—died April 21, 1956, New York, N.Y.) was an American journalist, dramatist, and screenwriter. He was a colourful personality who is remembered for his comedies written with Ben Hecht. At the age of 17, MacArthur moved to Chicago to begin a career in journalism, which was briefly ...

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  5. Apr 30, 2024 · Underworld (also released as Paying the Penalty) is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent ...

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  6. Apr 21, 2024 · My son, Ben Hecht, was diagnosed with stage four mouth cancer earlier in March. His cancer is so nontypical that the surgeon team had to meet to talk about why he has this cancer at such a young age. Appointments, tests, and surgeries consume his time and energy. After his surgery plus seven days...

  7. Apr 17, 2024 · Starring Ben Hecht. A total of 527 episodes were produced, but sadly, the majority are presumed to be lost. Less than 200 are known to exist today. A number ...

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  8. May 3, 2024 · 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 ...

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