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Ben Hecht

Writing

Ben Hecht

28 February 1894† 18 April 1964 (aged 70) New York City, New York, USA
Directed
11
Written
114
Produced
8
Movies
4

Biography

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful 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 or screenplays of some seventy films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

IMDb

Known For

Scarface

8.21983

Gone with the Wind

7.91939

Notorious

7.71946

Spellbound

7.41945

His Girl Friday

7.41940

Scarface

7.41932

The Thing from Another World

6.71951

Lifeboat

7.41944

The Front Page

7.31974

Kiss of Death

5.71995

Angels with Dirty Faces

7.51938

Wuthering Heights

7.21939

Monkey Business

6.71952

Ulysses

6.61954

A Star Is Born

7.21937

Design for Living

7.11933

Where the Sidewalk Ends

7.21950

Duel in the Sun

6.41946

Angel Face

7.11953

Gunga Din

6.51939

Actors and Sin

6.31952

The Pink Hussar

1950

Concerning a Woman of Sin

10.01949

Miracle in the Rain

1949

The Front Page

1948

Specter of the Rose

4.81946

Angels Over Broadway

5.91940

Soak the Rich

8.01936

Once in a Blue Moon

9.01935

The Scoundrel

6.31935

Crime Without Passion

5.91934