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Ben Hecht
Known for: WritingBen 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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Gone with the Wind
Whirlpool
Screenplay
Spellbound
Screenplay
The Thing from Another World
Writer
Switching Channels
Writer
Notorious
Portrait of Jennie
Writer
Gunga Din
Story
His Girl Friday
Ulysses
Screenplay
Scarface
Wuthering Heights
Screenplay
A Farewell to Arms
Screenplay
Duel in the Sun
Writer
Lifeboat
Writer
The Black Swan
Screenplay
Monkey Business
Screenplay
North to Alaska
Screenplay
Kiss of Death
A Star Is Born
Angel Face
Screenplay
Circus World
Screenplay
Angels with Dirty Faces
Writer
Trapeze
Writer
It's a Wonderful World
Screenplay, Story
Walk on the Wild Side
Writer
The Indian Fighter
Screenplay
Legend of the Lost
Queen Christina
Writer
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Prisoner of Zenda
Writer
China Girl
Screenplay, Producer
I Hate Actors
Novel
Queen of Outer Space
Story
Second Chorus
Rasputin and the Empress
Writer
Ride the Pink Horse
Screenplay
Edge of Doom
Writer
Miracle in the Rain
Screenplay, Novel
September Affair
Writer
Nothing Sacred
The Beast of the City
Writer
Cornered
Writer
Design for Living
Screenplay
I Take This Woman
Writer
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Twentieth Century
Screenplay
The Front Page
Barbary Coast
Writer
Let Freedom Ring
Screenplay, Story
Riptide
Writer
Her Husband's Affairs
Writer
Underworld
The Florentine Dagger
Writer
The Goldwyn Follies
Screenplay, Story
Lady of the Tropics
Screenplay
Lydia
Screenplay
Roseanna McCoy
Back Street
Writer
Eternally Yours
Woman Chases Man
Writer
The Unholy Night
Miracle in the Rain
Director, Writer