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.
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Writing
158
Male
1894-02-28
New York City, New York, USA
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The Scoundrel
Angels Over Broadway
Crime Without Passion
Actors and Sin
Switching Channels
Trapeze
Edge of Doom
The Front Page
China Girl
Specter of the Rose
Street of Chance
Barbary Coast
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Tales of Manhattan
Notorious
Her Husband's Affairs
Million Dollar Legs
Lifeboat
The President Vanishes
Walk on the Wild Side
I Take This Woman
A Star Is Born
Soak the Rich
The Florentine Dagger
Cornered
The New Klondike
Quick Millions
Homicide Squad
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
The Beast of the City
Back Street
Rasputin and the Empress
Queen Christina
Riptide
Shoot the Works
Once in a Blue Moon
King of Gamblers
Woman Chases Man
The Prisoner of Zenda
Angels with Dirty Faces
Some Like It Hot
Eternally Yours
Second Chorus
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
The Front Page
Duel in the Sun
The Front Page
Portrait of Jennie
Miracle in the Rain
Big Jack
The Twentieth Century
Roseanna McCoy
Concerning a Woman of Sin
The Pink Hussar
September Affair
The Murder Club
The Thing from Another World