Biography: Ben Hecht |
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),... more
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Cast: Edward G. Robinson Eddie Albert
Length: 82min
At least half of the two-part Actors and Sin is well worth having. Part One, "Actor's Blood", is based on a Ben Hecht tale of theatrical intrigue. Edward G. Robinson plays a Barrymoresque Shakespearean actor whose obsessive control of the life and...
The Specter of the Rose (1946)
Cast: Judith Anderson Michael Chekhov
Tags: Comedy Thriller Melodrama Thriller
Length: 90min
Ben Hecht wrote and directed this bizarre comedy/suspense/dance film, featuring a discordant musical score by George Antheil. The film concerns a love affair between young, innocent ballerina Haidi (Viola Essen) and her psychotic genius dance partner...
Length: 90min
Writer/director Ben Hecht brings "art" to the artless environs of Republic Pictures in the one-of-a-kind melodrama Spectre of the Rose. The film is set in the rarefied world of the Ballet, featuring a curious blend of ballet artists and veteran...
Cast: Rita Hayworth Thomas Mitchell Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Lionel Banks John Qualen
Tags: Drama Crime Drama Caper Crime
Length: 78min
In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter...
Cast: Walter Connolly
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 87min
In the print ads for Soak the Rich, writers/producers/directors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur were shown singing "We're the boys who wrote the yarn/ And here's what it's about/ Class ideas don't mean a thing/ When love kicks 'em out." The film pokes...
Cast: Charles MacArthur
Tags: Showbiz Comedy Comedy Satire
Length: 75min
Hecht and MacArthur's Once in a Blue Moon was an unsuccessful attempt to fashion a film vehicle for legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo. The pixieish star is cast as Gabbo the Great, a circus performer in pre-Revolutionary Russia. A sensitive soul,...
Cast: Noël Coward Stanley Ridges
Tags: Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies Comedy Drama
Length: 78min
This modern "Flying Dutchman" story stars actor/playwright Noel Coward as a class-A heel. Coward uses his position as a powerful publisher to break as many hearts as is humanly possible. When Coward does his usual hatchet job on poet Julie Haydon, she...
Cast: Claude Rains Ben Hecht Helen Hayes
Tags: Melodrama Crime Drama Crime
Length: 72min
Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed attorney Claude Rains, incensed that his mistress (Margo) has been seeing other men, kills the girl--or at least thinks he does. Rains believes he is "above" such irritations as...
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