
Ben Hecht
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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.
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Notorious (1946)
Writer

Duel in the Sun (1946)
Writer

The Thing from Another World (1951)
Writer

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Writer

Switching Channels (1988)
Writer

Lifeboat (1944)
Writer

Queen Christina (1934)
Writer

A Star Is Born (1937)
Writer

Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Writer

Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
Writer

The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Writer

Trapeze (1956)
Writer

Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Writer

Riptide (1934)
Writer

Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
Writer

The Front Page (1931)
Writer

Barbary Coast (1935)
Writer

Second Chorus (1941)
Writer

Big Jack (1949)
Writer

Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Writer

Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Writer

Edge of Doom (1950)
Writer

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Writer

September Affair (1950)
Writer

The Beast of the City (1932)
Writer

Cornered (1945)
Writer

The Florentine Dagger (1935)
Writer

The President Vanishes (1934)
Writer

The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Writer

Soak the Rich (1936)
Writer

Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
Writer

Some Like It Hot (1939)
Writer

Quick Millions (1931)
Writer

Back Street (1932)
Writer

Eternally Yours (1939)
Writer

Specter of the Rose (1946)
Writer

Shoot the Works (1934)
Writer

Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Writer

I Take This Woman (1940)
Writer

Roseanna McCoy (1949)
Writer

The Twentieth Century (1949)
Writer

The Front Page (1945)
Writer

Street of Chance (1930)
Writer

Woman Chases Man (1937)
Writer

Actors and Sin (1952)
Writer

Concerning a Woman of Sin (1949)
Writer

King of Gamblers (1937)
Writer

Homicide Squad (1931)
Writer

The Murder Club (1950)
Writer

Once in a Blue Moon (1935)
Writer

Miracle in the Rain (1949)
Writer

The New Klondike (1926)
Writer

The Front Page (1948)
Writer

The Pink Hussar (1950)
Writer





