Ben Hecht

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Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films.

At the age of 16, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops". In the 1910s and early 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, The Front Page, became a Broadway hit.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography - American Screenwriters calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures". Hecht received the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Underworld (1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. He also provided story ideas for such films as Stagecoach (1939). Film historian Richard Corliss called him "the Hollywood screenwriter", someone who "personified Hollywood itself". In 1940, he wrote, produced, and directed Angels Over Broadway, which was nominated for Best Screenplay. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning.

He became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays, he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The boycott was a response to Hecht's active support of paramilitary action against British forces in Palestine and sabotaging British property there (see below), during which time a supply ship to Palestine was named the S. S. Ben Hecht.

According to his autobiography, he never spent more than eight weeks on a script. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

生日

1894年02月28日

Ben Hecht的電影作品

年份 電影 職務 戲院及網上看
2019

搞鬼

Executive Producer
Executive Producer
1995

Kiss of Death

Original Film Writer
Original Film Writer
1988

頭條大新聞

Writer
Writer
1983

疤面煞星

Original Film Writer
Original Film Writer
可於iTunes購買或租借
1974

The Front Page

Theatre Play
Theatre Play
1960

北園尋金記

Screenplay
Screenplay
1948

奪魄索

Writer
Additional Writing
Writer
Additional Writing
1946

諜網情鴛

Screenplay
Writer
Screenplay
Writer
1945

意亂情迷

Screenplay
Screenplay
1941

Second Chorus

Writer
Writer
1940

再度劉郎

Screenplay
Theatre Play
Screenplay
Theatre Play
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1940

人約黃昏後

Screenplay
Additional Writing
Screenplay
Additional Writing
1939

亂世佳人

Writer
Writer
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1939

咆哮山莊

Screenplay
Screenplay
1937

A Star Is Born

Writer
Writer
1933

春色平分

Screenplay
Screenplay
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