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Ben Hecht
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Play Author, Short Story Author Born: February 28, 1894 in New York, NY Death: April 18, 1964 in New York, NY Biography:Hecht began writing for films in the late '20s, and over the next four decades worked on scripts for such notable directors as "Lewis Milestone" ("Hallelujah, I'm a Bum"), "Ernst Lubitsch" ("Design for Living"), "Howard Hawks" (Barbary Coast, "Monkey Business"), "William A. Wellman" ("Nothing Sacred"), "George Stevens" ("Gunga Din"), "William Wyler" ("Wuthering Heights"), "Alfred Hitchcock" ("Spellbound", "Notorious"), "Henry Hathaway" ("Kiss of Death", "Circus World"), and "Otto Preminger" ("Whirlpool," "Where the Sidewalk Ends"). In collaboration with "Charles MacArthur", Hecht wrote several notable plays, including "The Front Page" and "Twentieth Century"; the two also co-wrote and co-directed the films "Crime Without Passion", "The Scoundrel", "Once in a Blue Moon", and "Soak the Rich". "Lee Garmes" lensed and served as associate director on the first two films; he also shot and co-directed... Full Biography
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