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
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
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
1940	人約黃昏後 Screenplay Additional Writing	Screenplay Additional Writing
1939	亂世佳人 Writer	Writer
1939	咆哮山莊 Screenplay	Screenplay
1937	A Star Is Born Writer	Writer
1933	春色平分 Screenplay	Screenplay