![]() ![]() Jean-Luc Godard said “he invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today.” He helped establish the ground rules for entire genres, including the gangster film, the newspaper picture, the screwball comedy and postwar film noir. Uncredited, he script-doctored countless others, including “Stagecoach,” “Gone With the Wind,” “A Star Is Born” (1937) and “Roman Holiday.”Īcross four decades, Hecht worked on about 200 movies. The year was 1927.) “Scarface,” “The Front Page,” “Twentieth Century,” “Design for Living,” “Wuthering Heights,” “His Girl Friday,” “Spellbound,” “Notorious.” And that’s just films with his name on them. (Not his first Academy Award, the first Academy Award ever given for best story. And why wouldn’t they? Consider a few of his credits: “Underworld,” directed by Josef von Sternberg, for which Hecht won the first Academy Award. ![]() THE NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist By Julien Gorbachįor understandable reasons, biographies about Ben Hecht have focused almost exclusively on his screenwriting career in Hollywood. BEN HECHT Fighting Words, Moving Pictures By Adina Hoffman ![]()
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