Ben Hecht

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Crew

The Front Page
Theatre Play
Scarface
Screenplay
Spellbound
Screenplay
Wuthering Heights
Screenplay
His Girl Friday
Theatre Play, Screenplay
Kiss of Death
Screenplay
North to Alaska
Screenplay
Twentieth Century
Screenplay
Monkey Business
Screenplay
Switching Channels
Writer
Comrade X
Screenplay
Crime Without Passion
Screenplay, Director, Producer, Story
Trapeze
Writer
The Iron Petticoat
Screenplay
Edge of Doom
Writer
Whirlpool
Screenplay
The Black Swan
Screenplay
The Scoundrel
Director, Producer, Story
Underworld
Story
Queen of Outer Space
Story
Angels Over Broadway
Writer, Producer, Director
The Front Page
Writer
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Theatre Play
The Miracle of the Bells
Screenplay
Nothing Sacred
Screenplay
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Screenplay
It's a Wonderful World
Screenplay, Story
Ride the Pink Horse
Screenplay
China Girl
Producer, Screenplay
Lydia
Screenplay
The Unholy Garden
Story, Dialogue, Screenplay
Specter of the Rose
Director, Producer, Writer
The Indian Fighter
Screenplay
Actors and Sin
Director, Producer, Writer
Design for Living
Screenplay
Miracle in the Rain
Novel, Screenplay
Turn Back the Clock
Screenplay
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Story
Gaily, Gaily
Novel
Let Freedom Ring
Screenplay, Story
Shoot the Works
Theatre Play, Writer
Circus World
Screenplay
Street of Chance
Writer
Scarface
Original Film Writer
Ulysses
Screenplay
The Unholy Night
Story
Barbary Coast
Writer
The Goldwyn Follies
Screenplay, Story
Topaze
Screenplay
Lady of the Tropics
Screenplay
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Writer
Tales of Manhattan
Writer
Roadhouse Nights
Story
The Great Gabbo
Story
Notorious
Writer
The Hurricane
Additional Writing
Foreign Correspondent
Additional Writing
Upperworld
Story
Her Husband's Affairs
Writer
Million Dollar Legs
Writer
Viva Villa!
Screenplay
Gilda
Additional Writing
Perfect Strangers
Theatre Play
The Shop Around the Corner
Additional Writing
Queen Christina
Additional Writing, Writer
We Were Strangers
Additional Writing
Lifeboat
Writer
The President Vanishes
Writer
Legend of the Lost
Screenplay
Rope
Additional Writing
Stagecoach
Additional Writing
The Inspector General
Additional Writing
The Man with the Golden Arm
Additional Writing
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
Additional Writing
The Fiend Who Walked the West
Adaptation
The Secret of Convict Lake
Additional Writing
Love Happy
Additional Writing
Walk on the Wild Side
Writer
A Farewell to Arms
Screenplay
I Take This Woman
Writer
Angel Face
Screenplay
Gunga Din
Story
The Big Noise
Story
A Star Is Born
Writer
Soak the Rich
Producer, Writer, Director
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Screenplay
Some Like It Hot
Theatre Play, Writer
The Florentine Dagger
Writer
Living It Up
Theatre Play
Cornered
Writer
The Green Specter
Story
Spring Tonic
Theatre Play
Back Street
Writer
King of Gamblers
Writer
Woman Chases Man
Writer
The Front Page
Director, Writer
The Prisoner of Zenda
Writer
Portrait of Jennie
Writer
Once in a Blue Moon
Writer, Producer, Director
The New Klondike
Writer
Eternally Yours
Writer
Riptide
Writer
Roseanna McCoy
Writer
Angels with Dirty Faces
Writer
Second Chorus
Writer
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Writer
The Front Page
Writer
Miracle in the Rain
Director, Writer
The Twentieth Century
Writer
The Beast of the City
Writer
Rasputin and the Empress
Writer
Duel in the Sun
Writer
Big Jack
Writer
Quick Millions
Writer
Homicide Squad
Writer
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Writer
Concerning a Woman of Sin
Director, Writer
September Affair
Writer
The Pink Hussar
Director, Writer
The Murder Club
Writer
I Hate Actors
Novel
Kiss of Death
Original Film Writer
Miracle in the Rain
Author
Si l'empereur savait ça
Original Story
Strangers on a Train
Additional Writing
The Thing from Another World
Writer