• Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.
  • Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927)...
  • We Will Never Die, a musical stage performance, written by Ben Hecht, with a large cast and orchestra, raised awareness among Americans about the murder of...
  • Ben Hecht was born in New York City in 1894 and raised in Wisconsin. After high school, he moved to Chicago where he began a career as a newspaper journalist.
  • Ben Hecht (; February 28, 1893 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.
  • Hecht, Ben: news dispatch from Berlin, 1919Page two of a news dispatch by Chicago Daily News foreign correspondent Ben Hecht, written from his post in...
  • The story is based largely on real-life characters and incidents (its principal screenwriter, Ben Hecht, had been a journalist in Chicago and knew Capone and other...
  • Ben Hecht, the greatest of American screenwriters, produced, near the end of his career, a garrulous autobiography, “ A Child of the Century ,” in which he tells us...
  • From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vibrant portrait of Ben Hecht, one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters.
  • Ben Hecht’s influence spanned journalism, literature, theater, and cinema.