Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was a prolific Hollywood screenwriter, even though he professed disdain for the motion picture industry. He was nominated six times for the Academy Award, winning twice, in 1929 and in 1936. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... 1st Academy Awards Thursday, May 16, 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California Host Show: Douglas Fairbanks, William C. DeMille The 1st Academy Awards presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. ... The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ...

Life and career in Hollywood

Hecht was raised in Racine, Wisconsin, and as a young man moved to Chicago, where he became a reporter and, eventually, a short-story writer and novelist. He eventually landed in New York, where he met movie mogul David O. Selznick. The two were to be lifelong friends and frequent collaborators. Racine is a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, along Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River[1]. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 81,855. ... Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, City of the Big Shoulders, The 312, The City that Works, Second City (reference to when Chicago was second in population and prestige to New York). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... David O. Selznick David Oliver Selznick (May 10, 1902–June 22, 1965), was one of the icon Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. ...

Early in his career, he worked as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News. There he published the sensational column 1001 Afternoons in Chicago. While working at the newspaper, he met and befriended Maxwell Bodenheim. They would remain lifelong friends. The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and published between 1876 and 1978. ... Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26, 1891 – February 6, 1954) was an American poet and novelist. ...

While at the Chicago Daily News, Hecht famously broke the Ragged Stranger Murder Case story. Army war hero Carl Wanderer and his wife had been assaulted by a ragged stranger. His wife and the stranger were killed in the struggle. Hecht’s investigation revealed that the stranger was actually a drifter named Al Watson whom Wanderer had hired to stage a holdup. Wanderer admitted he was a homosexual and had planned the murder of his pregnant wife. He was sentenced to death by hanging and was executed on March 19, 1921. Carl Otto Wanderer (1887-1921) was a murderer famous for what became known as The Case of the Ragged Stranger, wherein he murdered his wife Ruth, and a drifter named Al Watson, in a bizarre plot to kill his wife so he could be with his homosexual lover, known only... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ...

While in New York in 1926, he received a telegram from friend Herman J. Mankiewicz, who had recently arrived in Los Angeles. "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots," it read. "Don't let this get around." Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897—March 5, 1953) was a Jewish-American legendary Hollywood screenwriter. ...

Hecht eventually moved to Hollywood, where he scripted Josef von Sternberg's gangster story Underworld in 1927, and won an Oscar for his work at the first Academy Awards presentation. His plays include Twentieth Century and The Front Page, both of which he wrote with frequent collaborator Charles MacArthur. The latter was filmed four times, most notably as Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday in 1940. Much of Hecht's later work was uncredited, as he worked as a "script doctor". Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. ... Underworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar). ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Twentieth Century, a 2004 Broadway play by American playwright Ken Ludwig, is an adaptation of the Hecht-MacArthur comedy. ... The Front Page was a smash hit Broadway comedy written in 1928 by onetime Chicago, Illinois reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. ... Charles MacArthur (November 5, 1895 _ April 21, 1956) was an American playwright and screenwriter, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. ... Howard Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and writer of the classic Hollywood era. ... His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page, itself an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... A script doctor is a skilled screenwriter called in to rescue a failing film project by rewriting parts of the screenplay to improve the dialogue, pacing and other elements. ...

Hecht had an early talk show on television in the New York metropolitan area in the 1950s and 1960s. He wrote the book for the 1953 Broadway musical Hazel Flagg. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... // Recovering from World War II and its aftermath, the economic miracle emerged in West Germany and Italy. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Hazel Flagg is a musical with a book by Ben Hecht, lyrics by Bob Hilliard, and music by Jule Styne. ...

Jewish and anti-Holocaust activism

"Blood for goods" proposal Background Auschwitz · The Holocaust Hungary:WWII · Jews in Hungary Image File history File links Star_of_David. ... Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ... This article is becoming very long. ... // In Hungary, the Great Depression induced a drop in the standard of living and the political mood of the country shifted further toward the right. ... Template:Scum and Jewish scum History of the Jews in Hungary concerns the Jews of Hungary and of Hungarian origins. ... People and events Aid and Rescue Committee Kurt Becher Joel Brand Adolf Eichmann Malchiel Gruenwald Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Kastner · Kastner train Joel Teitelbaum Rudolf Vrba Vrba-Wetzler report Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl Alfréd Wetzler For the Union of Orthodox Rabbis Vaad Hatzalah, see Vaad Hatzalah. ... Kurt Andreas Ernst Becher (September 12, 1909 – August, 1995) was an SS Untersturmführer (lieutenant) and later a Standartenführer (colonel) who was active in Hungary during the German occupation in 1944. ... Joel Brand Joel Brand (1907 – 1964) was a Hungarian Jew who played a prominent role in trying to save the Hungarian Jewish community from deportation to the German death camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. ... Image File history File links Cscr-featured. ... Adolf Eichmann in Germany in 1940 Otto Adolf Eichmann (known as Adolf Eichmann; March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel). ... Malchiel Gruenwald (also written Grünwald, Gruenvald, and Greenwald) (1881-?) was an Israeli hotelier, amateur journalist and stamp collector, who came to public attention in 1953, when he accused an Israeli government employee, Rudolf Kastner, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. ...   (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ... Rudolf Kastner Rudolf (RezsÅ‘) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner, (1906, Cluj, Transylvania–March 3, 1957, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the de facto head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest, Hungary known as the Vaadat Ezrah Vehatzalah (Vaada), or Aid and Rescue Committee, during the Nazi... Rudolf Kastner The Kastner train, or Kastner transport, refers to a trainload of 1,684 Jews who escaped from Nazi-controlled Hungary in 1944. ... Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum of Satmar Grand Rabbi Joel (Yoel) Teitelbaum, (1887-1979), known variously as Reb Yoelish and the Satmar Rav (or Rebbe) (יואל טייטלבוים), was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. ... Dr. Rudolf Vrba in 1997. ... Image File history File links Cscr-featured. ... One of the maps from the Vrba-Weztler report The Vrba-Wetzler report, also known as the Vrba-Wetzler statement, the Auschwitz Protocols, and the Auschwitz notebook, is a 32-page document about the German Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during the Holocaust. ... Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl (1903-1957) became famous for his tireless efforts to the save the Jews of Slovakia from extermination at Nazi hands during the European Holocaust. ... Alfréd Wetzler (1918–1988), who later wrote under the alias Jozef Laník, was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. ... Sources Yehuda Bauer John Conway Ben Hecht Raul Hilberg Miroslav Karny Ruth Linn Yehuda Bauer Yehuda Bauer (born 1926) is an historian and scholar of the Holocaust. ... Professor John Conway John S. Conway is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia. ... Dr. Raul Hilberg Raul Hilberg (born June 2, 1926) is one of the best-known and most distinguished of the Holocaust historians. ... Miroslav Karny (September 9, 1919 – May 9, 2001) was an historian and writer from Slovakia. ... Ruth Linn is an Israeli academic and currently dean of the Faculty of Education at Haifa University in Israel. ... Categories Category:The Holocaust This box: view • talk • edit

Ben Hecht was a great supporter of Zeev Jabotinsky and the right-wing Revisionist Zionism movement of Menachem Begin. He subsequently wrote the book Perfidy, dramatizing the failure to rescue Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, and the roles of the Zionist leader Rudolf Kastner and others in leadership positions in the Hungarian Jewish community. This issue was the subject of a famous libel trial, when the Israeli government sued a writer who accused Kastner, at the time a government minister, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. Although the court initially held that these accusations were correct, on appeal the verdict of collaboration was reversed by a split 3-2 decision in the Supreme Court. However the Supreme court upheld the decision of the lower court that Kastner saved Kurt Becher, a major German war criminal, from the punishment awaiting him at Nurenberg. The case remains controversial.[1] [2] [3] [4] and it is not universally accepted that Hecht's account can be accepted as fair. Zeev Jabotinsky Zeev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky (alternatively Zhabotinski) (Hebrew: , Russian: ; October 18, 1880 - August 4, 1940) was a Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Legion in World War I. // Early life Born in Odessa, Ukraine, he was raised in a traditional Jewish home and learned... Palestine (comprising todays Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza strip) and Transjordan (todays Kingdom of Jordan) were all part of the British Mandate of Palestine. ...   (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בְּגִין) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Rudolf Kastner Rudolf (RezsÅ‘) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner, (1906, Cluj, Transylvania–March 3, 1957, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the de facto head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest, Hungary known as the Vaadat Ezrah Vehatzalah (Vaada), or Aid and Rescue Committee, during the Nazi... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

Hecht also opposed the social-democratic policies of Israel's first two prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett, and of the Jewish Agency for what he regarded as their complicit silence and co-operation with the British during World War II in not doing more to rescue Jews and open the doors of Palestine to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and occupied Europe. He spoke out against the lack of interest in saving the Jews trapped in Europe during the Holocaust. He purchased newspaper advertising in New York's newspapers to publicize the fate of Hitler's victims. In one such "advertisement" with the headline: "FOR SALE: 70,000 JEWS AT $50 APIECE GUARANTEED HUMAN BEINGS" explaining that three and a half million dollars would rescue the then trapped Romanian Jews (quoted in his work Perfidy, pp. 191-192). However, Stephen Wise made a public statement in the name of the American Jewish Congress denying the "confirmation" of the offer from the Romanian government. Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Moshe Sharett (Hebrew: משה שרת); born Moshe Shertok (Hebrew: משה שרתוק), (October 15, 1894 – July 7, 1965) was the second Prime Minister of Israel (1954-1955), serving for a little under two years between David Ben-Gurions two terms. ... The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (or sochnut in Hebrew), was previously called the Jewish Agency for Palestine (during the British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli organisation that advocates for Israel and is composed mainly, but not entirely, of Jewish people. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... In the course of history, Jewish populations have been expelled or ostracised by various local authorities and have sought asylum from Anti-Semitism numerous times. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it. ... Stephen Samuel Wise (1874 - 1949) was a U.S. rabbi and Zionist leader. ... The American Jewish Congress is a civil rights body formed both to protect the civil rights of Jewish Americans, as well as to act as a conduit for pro-civil rights activities in the American Jewish community. ...

Ben Hecht's was a close associate of Hillel Kook (also known as Peter Bergson) - an ETZEL emissary to America. Hecht wrote in Perfidy that he used to be a scriptwriter until his meeting with Bergson, when he accidentally bumped into history - i.e. the burning need to do anything possible to save the doomed Jews of Europe (paraphrase from Perfidy). After meeting Hillel Kook Ben Hecht dedicated himself to working with Kook's rescue group and after the war ended he continued to work with Kook on establishment of the State of Israel. Kook's rescue group purchased ad space in major US newspapers and Ben Hecht wrote most of the ads, which were designed to call for immediate rescue action. In Perfidy and in other writings Ben Hecht was saddened by the negative reaction of mainstream American Jewish leaders toward rescue, and perceived them as pompous and more involved with petty aspects of Jewish politics and post-war Zionist issues than investing their talents, time and connections into rescue of their doomed brethren across the Atlantic. Together with Kurt Weil and other top level Broadway and Hollywood contacts he produced the pageant We Shall Never Die, which was shown in Madison Square Garden and in numerous cities across America, including Washington, where Eleanor Roosevelt and many government leaders saw it. The pageant was intensely opposed by major Jewish leaders like Stephen Wise, and they tried to assure it is not shown^[1]. In spite of considerable obstruction the Bergson Group's activism bore fruit, although much less and much later than what Kook, Hecht and their colleagues expected^[2]. The Bergson Group had considerable support in Washington and after long delay the activism resulted in President Roosevelt establishing the War Refugee Board (WRB), which ultimately supported the Wallenberg mission to Budapest. According to history books, such as those by David Wyman and Rafael Medoff, over 200,000 people were rescued as a result of the Bergson Group - probably mostly in Hungary. In contrast to historians like Wyman and Medoff, noted Israeli historian Professor Yehuda Bauer, whom many consider to be the authority on the Holocaust, categorically stated that Hillel Kook (and by implication members of his team, such as Ben Hecht) didn't save anyone^[3]. Hillel Kook (1915-2001), also known as Peter Bergson, was a Revisionist Zionist activist, politician, and prominent member of the Irgun. ... Hillel Kook (1915-2001), also known as Peter Bergson, was a Revisionist Zionist activist, politician, and prominent member of the Irgun. ... Etzel is the Hebrew acronym of Irgun, an organisation considered as terrorist by many the name of Attila the Hun in the Nibelungenlied This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Kurt Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York, was a German composer active from the 1920s until his death. ... The War Refugee Board, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January of 1944, was a U.S. executive agency created to aid civilian victims of the Nazi and Axis powers. ...

After the war ended Ben Hecht produced another major pageant, this time about establishment of the State of Israel, called A Flag is Born.

Quotes

How My Egoism Died, From: A Child in the Century

A simple fact entered my head one day and put an end to my revolt against the Deity. It occurred to me that God was not engaged in corrupting the mind of man but in creating it. This may sound like no fact at all, or like the most childish of quibbles. But whatever it is, it brought me a sigh of relief, a slightly bitter sigh. I was relieved because instead of beholding a man as a finished and obviously worthless product, unable to bring sanity into human affairs, I looked on him (in my conversion) as a creature in the making. And lo, I was aware that like my stooped and furry brothers, the apes, I am God's incomplete child. My groping brain, no less than my little toe, is a mechanism in His evolution-busy hands.

Other famous quotes

• In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
• The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
• People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
• When asked by his new wife's discomfited parents "Why didn't you tell us you were a Jew?", Hecht responded "I was afraid you would think I was bragging."
• One of the finest things ever done by the mob was the crucifixion of Christ. Intellectually, it was a splendid gesture. But trust the mob to bungle. If I'd had charge of executing Christ, I'd have handled it differently. You see, what I'd have done was had him shipped to Rome and fed to the lions. They never could make a Savior out of mincemeat! - A Jew in Love
• Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
• There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age. (A Guide for the Bedevilled)
• The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them. (Perfidy)

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Academy Award nominations

• 20th Academy Awards Nominated Notorious
• 14th Academy Awards Nominated Angels Over Broadway
• 13th Academy Awards Nominated Wuthering Heights
• 9th Academy Awards Won The Scoundrel
• 8th Academy Awards Nominated Viva Villa!
• 1st Academy Awards - Won Underworld

The 20th Academy Awards spread awards around, with no film receiving more than 3 awards, the last time this would happen until the 78th Academy Awards. ... Notorious was a 1946 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... The 14th Academy Awards may be most famous as the year Citizen Kane did not win Best Picture. ... The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after the fiasco of leaked voting results in 1939 by the Los Angeles Times. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... | The 9th Academy Awards were held on March 4, 1937 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ... The Scoundrel was Noel Cowards film debut, aside from a bit role in a silent film. ... The 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. ... Viva Villa! is a 1934 movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ... 1st Academy Awards Thursday, May 16, 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California Host Show: Douglas Fairbanks, William C. DeMille The 1st Academy Awards presented on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. ... Underworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. ...

Writing filmography

• Kiss of Death
• Scarface (uncredited)
• Casino Royale (uncredited)
• Circus World
• 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (uncredited)
• Cleopatra (uncredited)
• Billy Rose's Jumbo
• Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited)
• A Walk on the Wild Side (uncredited)
• North to Alaska (uncredited)
• John Paul Jones (uncredited)
• The Gun Runners (uncredited)
• Queen of Outer Space
• Legend of the Lost
• A Farewell to Arms
• Miracle in the Rain
• The Iron Petticoat
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (uncredited)
• Trapeze (uncredited)
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (uncredited)
• The Indian Fighter
• The Man with the Golden Arm (uncredited)
• Guys and Dolls (uncredited)
• Living It Up
• Ulisse
• Light's Diamond Jubilee (television)
• Terminal Station (uncredited)
• Angel Face (uncredited)
• Hans Christian Andersen (uncredited)
• Monkey Business
• Actors and Sin
• The Wild Heart (uncredited)
• The Thing from Another World (uncredited)
• The Secret of Convict Lake (uncredited)
• Strangers on a Train (uncredited)
• September Affair (uncredited)
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Edge of Doom (uncredited)
• Perfect Strangers
• Love Happy (uncredited)
• The Inspector General (uncredited)
• Whirlpool
• Roseanna McCoy (uncredited)
• Big Jack (uncredited)
• Portrait of Jennie (uncredited)
• Cry of the City (uncredited)
• Rope (uncredited)
• The Miracle of the Bells
• Dishonored Lady (uncredited)
• Her Husband's Affairs
• The Paradine Case (uncredited)
• Ride the Pink Horse
• Kiss of Death
• Duel in the Sun (uncredited)
• Notorious
• Specter of the Rose
• Gilda (uncredited)
• Cornered (uncredited)
• Spellbound
• Watchtower Over Tomorrow
• Lifeboat (uncredited)
• The Outlaw (uncredited)
• China Girl
• Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
• The Black Swan
• Ten Gentlemen from West Point (uncredited)
• Roxie Hart (uncredited)
• Lydia
• The Mad Doctor (uncredited)
• Comrade X
• Second Chorus (uncredited)
• Angels Over Broadway
• Foreign Correspondent (final scene-uncredited)
• The Shop Around the Corner (uncredited)
• His Girl Friday
• I Take This Woman (uncredited)
• Gone with the Wind (uncredited)
• At the Circus (uncredited)
• Lady of the Tropics
• It's a Wonderful World
• Wuthering Heights
• Let Freedom Ring
• Stagecoach (uncredited)
• Gunga Din
• Angels with Dirty Faces (uncredited)
• The Goldwyn Follies
• Nothing Sacred
• The Hurricane (uncredited)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (uncredited)
• Woman Chases Man (uncredited)
• King of Gamblers (uncredited)
• A Star Is Born (uncredited)
• Soak the Rich
• The Scoundrel
• Spring Tonic
• Barbary Coast
• Once in a Blue Moon
• The Florentine Dagger
• The President Vanishes (uncredited)
• Crime Without Passion
• Shoot the Works
• Twentieth Century (uncredited)
• Upperworld
• Viva Villa!
• Riptide (uncredited)
• Queen Christina (uncredited)
• Design for Living
• Turn Back the Clock
• Topaze
• Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
• Back Street (uncredited)
• Rasputin and the Empress (uncredited)
• Million Dollar Legs (uncredited)
• Scarface
• The Beast of the City (uncredited)
• The Unholy Garden
• The Sin of Madelon Claudet (uncredited)
• Monkey Business (uncredited)
• Homicide Squad (uncredited)
• Quick Millions (uncredited)
• Le Spectre vert
• Roadhouse Nights
• Street of Chance (uncredited)
• The Unholy Night
• The Great Gabbo
• The Big Noise
• American Beauty (uncredited)
• Underworld
• The New Klondike (uncredited)

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Original film poster John Paul Jones is a 1959 biographical epic film about the revolutionary hero. ... Queen of Outer Space is a science fiction movie filmed in 1958 starring Zsa Zsa Gabor as the Queen of Venus. ... Legend of the Lost portrays Wayne, as good-for-nothing Joe January, he helps a Saharan treasure hunting expedition that includes Rossano Brazzi(Paul) as a crazed religious man with a penchant for treasures and Sophia Loren(Dita)as a disreputable woman along for the tough dry ride. ... A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. ... The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 motion picture directed by Ralph Thomas, starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn. ... The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French Notre Dame de Paris) is a 1956 French film version of Victor Hugos novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ... Trapeze can mean one of a number of things. ... The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 film which tells the story of a heroin addict who got clean while in prison but struggles to stay straight in the outside world. ... Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film made by the Samuel Goldwyn Company and released by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. ... Living It Up was filmed from October 19 - December 18, 1953. ... The name Ulysses can mean: The Roman equivalent of Odysseus A 1922 novel by James Joyce: Ulysses (novel) A 1967 movie based on the novel, Ulysses (movie) A solar probe: Ulysses (spacecraft) A poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson A anime television program produced by DiC Entertainment: Ulysses 31 An indie... It has been suggested that Terminal Station be merged into this article or section. ... Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in Angel Face Angel Face is a 1952 black-and-white film shot in the film noir style. ... 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Love Happy (1949) was the 13th, and virtually the last Marx Brothers film (they would return to the big screen in 1957 for short appearances in The Story of Mankind). ... The Inspector General is a 1949 musical comedy film. ... Whirlpool is an Otto Preminger-directed film, considered film noir, starring Gene Tierney as the kleptomaniac wife of a psychoanalyst. ... Big Jack is a 1949 film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, and Marjorie Main. ... Portrait of Jennie movie poster Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan. ... Richard Conte in Cry of the City (1948) Cry of the City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Robert Siodmak based on the novel by Henry Edward Helseth. ... Rope (1948) is an Alfred Hitchcock classic film notable for its single location covered in long takes, many of which appear to be continuous shots. ... The Paradine Case was a 1947 courtroom drama movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, produced by David O. Selznick. ... Ride the Pink Horse is a 1947 crime film noir produced by Universal Studios. ... Kiss of Death is a 1947 film noir movie written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. ... Duel in the Sun is a 1946 Western film which tells the story of a half-Hispanic girl who goes to live with her Anglo relatives, becoming involved in prejudice and forbidden love. ... Notorious was a 1946 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Gilda (1946) is a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. ... Cornered is a 1945 film noir starring Dick Powell, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Adrian Scott. ... DVD cover of the Criterion Collection release Spellbound (1945), a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims to be. ... Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. ... A colorized image of Jack Buetel as Billy the Kid. ... Journey Into Fear is a 1943 film centered around a United States Navy engineer attempting to escape Nazi forces following his return to the United States. ... The Black Swan is a 1942 film by Henry King, starring Tyrone Power and Maureen OHara. ... Roxie Hart is a 1942 film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, William Frawley, and Spring Byington billy bob marley. ... Lydia is a 1941 drama film, directed by Julien Duvivier. ... Comrade X is a 1940 spy movie, starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr and directed by King Vidor. ... Second Chorus is a 1940 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw and Charles Butterworth, with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen, Hal Borne and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. ... Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 film which tells the story of an American reporter who becomes involved in espionage in England during the onset of World War II. It stars Joel McCrea, George Sanders, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, Albert Bassermann and Robert Benchley. ... The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 romantic comedy film starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. ... His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page, itself an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of their play of the same name. ... Gone with the Wind, one of the most popular films of all time, and the most enduring symbol of the golden age of Hollywood, is a 1939 film adapted from Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel of the same name. ... At the Circus is a 1939 Marx Brothers comedy film in which they save a circus from bankruptcy. ... Its a Wonderful World is a 1939 romantic screwball comedy starring Jimmy Stewart & Claudette Colbert. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Stagecoach is a 1939 western film, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. ... Gunga Din is a 1939 RKO swashbuckler film, based on the 1892 poem by Rudyard Kipling, about three British sergeants and their native water bearer who fight the Thuggee, a religious cult of ritualistic stranglers in colonial India. ... This article is about the film Angels with Dirty Faces. ... Videotape cover of The Goldwyn Follies The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 movie, written by Ben Hecht, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Ray Golden, Richard Rodgers, and Kurt Weill, and lyrics by Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin. ... Nothing Sacred is a 1937 movie starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March, and directed by William A. Wellman. ... The Hurricane is a 1937 film directed by John Ford about a tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean. ... The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, first published in 1894. ... DVD cover showing stars Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. ... The Scoundrel was Noel Cowards film debut, aside from a bit role in a silent film. ... Barbary Coast is a black-and-white film directed by Howard Hawks. ... The President Vanishes is a novel by Rex Stout that was first published in 1934. ... Twentieth Century was the title of several incarnations of a screwball comedy plot featuring an egomaniacal Broadway producer who makes a shopgirl into a star, then tries to win her back after she abandons him. ... Viva Villa! is a 1934 movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ... Riptide redirects here. ... This highly fictionalized feature film, based on the life of Queen Christina of Sweden, starred Greta Garbo and John Gilbert and was released in December 1933. ... Design for Living is a black comedy written by Noel Coward which premiered in 1932. ... Topaze is a 1933 American film based on the French play of the same name by Marcel Pagnol. ... Hallelujah, Im a Bum (1933) is a Depression-era black-and-white musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone. ... Back Street is romance novel written by Fannie Hurst in 1931, with underlying themes of death and adultery. ... Scarface (also known as Scarface, the Shame of the Nation and The Shame of a Nation) is a 1932 gangster film of the Pre-Code era which tells the story of gang warfare and police intervention when rival gangs fight over control of a city. ... The Beast of the City is a 1932 pre-Code gangster movie featuring cops as vigilantes, predating Dirty Harry by almost 40 years and known for its singularly vicious ending. ... The Sin of Madelon Claudet is a 1931 film which tells the story of a wrongly-imprisoned woman who turns to theft and prostitution in order to support her son. ... Monkey Business is a 1931 film, the third of the Marx Brothers movies and the first not to be an adaptation of one of their Broadway shows. ... Quick Millions is a 1931 movie thriller involving a truck driver (Spencer Tracy) and the wealthy woman (Marguerite Churchill) that he covets. ... The Great Gabbo[1] (1929) is an early musical drama starring Erich von Stroheim and directed by James Cruze, with a story by Ben Hecht. ... Underworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. ...

Books (partial list)

• 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, McGee/Covici, (1922)
• Fantazius Mallare, a Mysterious Oath, 174 pp., Pascal Covici (1922)
• The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives w/ illustrations by Wallace Smith, 256 pp. Boni & Liveright (1923)
• Kingdom of Evil, 211pp., Pascal Covici (1924)
• Broken Necks { Containing More 1001 Afternoons }, 344pp., Pascal Covici (1926)
• The Book of Miracles, 465 pp., Viking Press (1939)
• 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, 370 pp., Viking Press (1941) ASIN B0007E7X9K
• The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht, 524 pp., Crown (1945)
• Gaily, Gaily, Signet (November 1, 1969) ISBN
• A Child of the Century 672 pp. Plume (May 30, 1985) ISBN
• Perfidy 288 pp. Milah Press, Inc. (April 1, 1997) ISBN
• The Front Page, Samuel French Inc Plays (January 1, 1998) ISBN
• A Guide for the Bedevilled 216 pp. Milah Press, Incorporated (September 1, 1999) ISBN-X
• Erik Dorn
• Count Bruga
• A Jew in Love

Pascal Pat Avram Covici (November 4, 1885-October 14, 1964) was a Romanian Jewish-American book publisher and editor. ... Pascal Pat Avram Covici (November 4, 1885-October 14, 1964) was a Romanian Jewish-American book publisher and editor. ... Pascal Pat Avram Covici (November 4, 1885-October 14, 1964) was a Romanian Jewish-American book publisher and editor. ...

Notes

1. ^ Books on Hillel Kook by Prof. David Wyman and Dr. Rafael Medoff
2. ^ Larry Jarvik circa mid 1970-s video interview with Hillel Kook: Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die
3. ^ conversation with Professor Bauer at Yad Vashem, circa 2005

References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 146. 

Everett Franklin Bleiler (born 1920) is an editor and bibliographer of science fiction and Fantasy. ...

See also

• Rudolf Vrba
• Rudolf Kastner
• Irgun
• History of the Jews in Hungary

Dr. Rudolf Vrba in 1997. ... Rudolf Kastner Rudolf (Rezső) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner, (1906, Cluj, Transylvania–March 3, 1957, Tel Aviv, Israel) was the de facto head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest, Hungary known as the Vaadat Ezrah Vehatzalah (Vaada), or Aid and Rescue Committee, during the Nazi... Etzel emblem Irgun (ארגון), shorthand for Irgun Tsvai Leumi (ארגון צבאי לאומי, also spelled Irgun Zvai Leumi), Hebrew for National Military Organization, was a clandestine militant Zionist group, considered Terrorist by the British, that operated in Palestine from 1931 to 1948. ... Template:Scum and Jewish scum History of the Jews in Hungary concerns the Jews of Hungary and of Hungarian origins. ...

Further reading

• Ben Hecht at the Internet Movie Database
• Ben Hecht: Biography with credits for many other works
• Summary: Perfidy and the Kastner Trial
• "Perfidy" Written by Ben Hecht: Reviewed by Michael Jacobs
• "Nirvana" by Ben Hecht
• Works by Ben Hecht at Project Gutenberg