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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht

Writing • 1894-02-28 • New York City, New York, USA

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Hecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Scarface8.2

Scarface

1983

Gone with the Wind7.9

Gone with the Wind

1939

Notorious7.7

Notorious

1946

Spellbound7.4

Spellbound

1945

Scarface7.4

Scarface

1932

The Thing from Another World6.7

The Thing from Another World

1951

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