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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.
Filmography 64
Gone with the Wind
+7
Screenplay 
Notorious
+6
Writer 
Whirlpool
Screenplay 
Spellbound
Screenplay 
Switching Channels
+4
Writer 
Portrait of Jennie
Writer 
Gunga Din
+5
Story 
Duel in the Sun
Writer 
His Girl Friday
+28
Screenplay 
Ulysses
+5
Screenplay 
Scarface
+4
Screenplay 
Wuthering Heights
+13
Screenplay 
A Farewell to Arms
+3
Screenplay 
Lifeboat
+4
Writer 
The Black Swan
+3
Screenplay 
Monkey Business
+3
Screenplay 
North to Alaska
+2
Screenplay 
Kiss of Death
Screenplay 
A Star Is Born
+23
Writer 
Angel Face
Screenplay 
Circus World
+2
Screenplay 
Angels with Dirty Faces
Writer 
Trapeze
+6
Writer 
It's a Wonderful World
+2
Screenplay, Story 
Walk on the Wild Side
+1
Writer 
The Indian Fighter
+3
Screenplay 
Legend of the Lost
+7
Screenplay 
Queen Christina
+2
Writer 
Where the Sidewalk Ends
+2
Screenplay 
The Prisoner of Zenda
+2
Writer 
China Girl
Screenplay, Producer 
I Hate Actors
Novel 
Queen of Outer Space
+2
Story 
Second Chorus
+20
Writer 
Rasputin and the Empress
+2
Writer 
Ride the Pink Horse
Screenplay 
+11 
Edge of Doom
+6
Writer 
Miracle in the Rain
+2
Screenplay, Novel 
September Affair
Writer 
Nothing Sacred
+27
Screenplay 
The Beast of the City
+3
Writer 
Lydia
Screenplay 
Cornered
Writer 
Design for Living
+3
Screenplay 
I Take This Woman
Writer 
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Story 
Twentieth Century
Screenplay 
The Front Page
+20
Writer 
Barbary Coast
+6
Writer 
Let Freedom Ring
Screenplay, Story 
Riptide
+1
Writer 
Her Husband's Affairs
Writer 
Underworld
+4
Story 
The Florentine Dagger
Writer 
The Goldwyn Follies
+6
Screenplay, Story 
Lady of the Tropics
Screenplay 
Roseanna McCoy
+1
Writer 
Back Street
+2
Writer 
Eternally Yours
+18
Writer 
Woman Chases Man
+9
Writer 
The Unholy Night
+1
Story 
Miracle in the Rain
+2
Director, Writer