BEN HECHT

WRITING
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.
- Switching Channels 1988
- Trapeze 1956
- Edge of Doom 1950
- Angels Over Broadway 1940
- The Front Page 1931
- Specter of the Rose 1946
- Street of Chance 1930
- Barbary Coast 1935
- Indiscretion of an American Wife 1953
- Tales of Manhattan 1942
- Notorious 1946
- Her Husband's Affairs 1947
- Million Dollar Legs 1932
- Lifeboat 1944
- The President Vanishes 1934
- Walk on the Wild Side 1962
- I Take This Woman 1940
- A Star Is Born 1937
- Soak the Rich 1936
- The Florentine Dagger 1935
- Cornered 1945
- Back Street 1932
- King of Gamblers 1937
- Queen Christina 1933
- Woman Chases Man 1937
- Shoot the Works 1934
- The Prisoner of Zenda 1937
- Portrait of Jennie 1948
- Once in a Blue Moon 1935
- The New Klondike 1926
- Eternally Yours 1939
- Riptide 1934
- Roseanna McCoy 1949
- Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
- Some Like It Hot 1939
- Second Chorus 1941
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1931
- The Beast of the City 1932
- Rasputin and the Empress 1932
- Duel in the Sun 1946
- Big Jack 1949
- Quick Millions 1931
- Homicide Squad 1931
- Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1942
- September Affair 1950
- Actors and Sin 1952