Ben Hecht

American writer, director, and producer (1894–1964)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1893
Died: 1964
Works: 103

Top works

1001 afternoon in new york
the champion from far away
a child of the century
Gargoyles
A tribute to gallantry

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Type: Group
Origin: Switzerland

mundartpop rockswitzerland

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners: 468
Total plays: 1,005

Ben Hecht (last name pronounced Hekt), (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964), was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or plays in America. According to film historian Richard Corliss, he was "the" Hollywood screenwriter,

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5 total works indexed

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
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Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
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HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
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Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,790x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,413x

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Quotes

“They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep, and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.”
“Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.”
“Gibbons is a man full of pain and violence. On this night, there is a Witch's Sabbath in his heart. Storms are blowing his world to bits and great troubles are pounding him on a reef.”
“The only place I felt at home was in your heart. You were the only light that didn't go out on me.”
“You're such a nice boy, what do you want to go off and get killed in the War for?”
“Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1894-02-28 ) February 28, 1894, New York City , U.S.
Died: April 18, 1964 (1964-04-18) (aged 70), New York City, U.S.
Occupations: Screenwriter director producer novelist playwright journalist
Years active: 1916–1964
Style: Comedy, newspapers, gangster
Spouse s: Marie Armstrong ( married"}]]}'>m. 1915 ; divorced"}]]}'>div. 1925 ) , Rose Caylor ( married"}]]}'>m. 1925 )

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Commons category: Ben Hecht
date of birth: 1894-02-28
date of death: 1964-04-18
name in native language: Ben Hecht
P12749: Tom Tancredo

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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 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films, including six Academy Award nominations and two wins.

After graduating from high school in 1910, 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 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the late 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, The Front Page, became a Broadway hit.