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The Press Room of the Criminal Courts Building in Chicago, 1928. The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted for the cinema several times. The play entered the public domain in the United ...
Ben Hecht left the University of Wisconsin for Chicago in 1910 and became a newspaper reporter. His reporting trained him to capture a story, and how to observe what was happening in the world. In his early career as a reporter and a partner in the Grady Rutledge publicity firm, Hecht played a major role in organizing campaigns against the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s.
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Ben Hecht has 151 books on Goodreads with 24431 ratings. Ben Hecht’s most popular book is A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago.
Ben Hecht is the author of more than a dozen books, among them 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, Child of the Century, and A Jew in Love. He was a leading spirit in the Chicago literary renaissance in the 1920s, founder of the Literary Times and a frequent contributor to The Little Review and Smart Set.
Mar 12, 2019 · Pauline Kael called him “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard said he was “a genius” who “invented 80% of what is used in Hollywood movies to...
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Jan 1, 2001 · Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 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.
