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.
The Front Page
(Theatre Play)
Scarface
(Screenplay)
Spellbound
(Screenplay)
Wuthering Heights
(Screenplay)
His Girl Friday
(Theatre Play)
Kiss of Death
(Screenplay)
North to Alaska
(Screenplay)
Twentieth Century
(Screenplay)
Monkey Business
(Screenplay)
Switching Channels
(Writer)
Comrade X
(Screenplay)
Crime Without Passion
(Screenplay)
Crime Without Passion
(Director)
Trapeze
(Writer)
The Iron Petticoat
(Screenplay)
Edge of Doom
(Writer)
Whirlpool
(Screenplay)
The Black Swan
(Screenplay)
The Scoundrel
(Director)
Underworld
(Story)
Queen of Outer Space
(Story)
Angels Over Broadway
(Writer)
Angels Over Broadway
(Producer)
Angels Over Broadway
(Director)
The Front Page
(Writer)
Billy Rose's Jumbo
(Theatre Play)
The Miracle of the Bells
(Screenplay)
Nothing Sacred
(Screenplay)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
(Screenplay)
It's a Wonderful World
(Screenplay)
It's a Wonderful World
(Story)
Ride the Pink Horse
(Screenplay)
China Girl
(Producer)
China Girl
(Screenplay)
Lydia
(Screenplay)
The Unholy Garden
(Story)
Specter of the Rose
(Director)
Specter of the Rose
(Producer)
Specter of the Rose
(Writer)
The Indian Fighter
(Screenplay)
Actors and Sin
(Director)
Design for Living
(Screenplay)
Miracle in the Rain
(Novel)
Miracle in the Rain
(Screenplay)
Turn Back the Clock
(Screenplay)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
(Story)
Gaily, Gaily
(Novel)
Let Freedom Ring
(Screenplay)
Let Freedom Ring
(Story)
Shoot the Works
(Theatre Play)
Circus World
(Screenplay)
Street of Chance
(Writer)
Scarface
(Original Film Writer)
Ulysses
(Screenplay)
The Unholy Night
(Story)
Barbary Coast
(Writer)
The Goldwyn Follies
(Screenplay)
The Goldwyn Follies
(Story)
Topaze
(Screenplay)
Lady of the Tropics
(Screenplay)
Indiscretion of an American Wife
(Writer)
Tales of Manhattan
(Writer)
Roadhouse Nights
(Story)
The Great Gabbo
(Story)
Notorious
(Writer)
The Hurricane
(Additional Writing)
Foreign Correspondent
(Additional Writing)
Upperworld
(Story)
His Girl Friday
(Screenplay)
Her Husband's Affairs
(Writer)
Million Dollar Legs
(Writer)
Viva Villa!
(Screenplay)
Gilda
(Additional Writing)
Perfect Strangers
(Theatre Play)
The Shop Around the Corner
(Additional Writing)
Queen Christina
(Additional Writing)
We Were Strangers
(Additional Writing)
Lifeboat
(Writer)
The President Vanishes
(Writer)
Legend of the Lost
(Screenplay)
Rope
(Additional Writing)
Stagecoach
(Additional Writing)
The Inspector General
(Additional Writing)
The Man with the Golden Arm
(Additional Writing)
7 Faces of Dr. Lao
(Additional Writing)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(Adaptation)
The Secret of Convict Lake
(Additional Writing)
Actors and Sin
(Producer)
Love Happy
(Additional Writing)
Walk on the Wild Side
(Writer)
A Farewell to Arms
(Screenplay)
I Take This Woman
(Writer)
Angel Face
(Screenplay)
Gunga Din
(Story)
The Big Noise
(Story)
A Star Is Born
(Writer)
The Scoundrel
(Producer)
Soak the Rich
(Producer)
Soak the Rich
(Writer)
Soak the Rich
(Director)
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
(Screenplay)
Some Like It Hot
(Theatre Play)
The Scoundrel
(Story)
The Unholy Garden
(Dialogue)
Crime Without Passion
(Producer)
Crime Without Passion
(Story)
The Florentine Dagger
(Writer)
Living It Up
(Theatre Play)
Cornered
(Writer)
The Green Specter
(Story)
Spring Tonic
(Theatre Play)
Back Street
(Writer)
King of Gamblers
(Writer)
Queen Christina
(Writer)
Woman Chases Man
(Writer)
The Front Page
(Director)
Shoot the Works
(Writer)
The Prisoner of Zenda
(Writer)
Portrait of Jennie
(Writer)
Once in a Blue Moon
(Writer)
Once in a Blue Moon
(Producer)
The Front Page
(Writer)
The New Klondike
(Writer)
Once in a Blue Moon
(Director)
Eternally Yours
(Writer)
Riptide
(Writer)
Roseanna McCoy
(Writer)
Angels with Dirty Faces
(Writer)
Some Like It Hot
(Writer)
Second Chorus
(Writer)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet
(Writer)
The Front Page
(Writer)
Miracle in the Rain
(Director)
The Twentieth Century
(Writer)
The Beast of the City
(Writer)
Rasputin and the Empress
(Writer)
Duel in the Sun
(Writer)
Big Jack
(Writer)
Quick Millions
(Writer)
Homicide Squad
(Writer)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
(Writer)
Miracle in the Rain
(Writer)
Concerning a Woman of Sin
(Director)
September Affair
(Writer)
The Pink Hussar
(Director)
Concerning a Woman of Sin
(Writer)
The Murder Club
(Writer)
The Pink Hussar
(Writer)
Actors and Sin
(Writer)
I Hate Actors
(Novel)
Kiss of Death
(Original Film Writer)
Miracle in the Rain
(Author)
Si l'empereur savait ça
(Original Story)
Strangers on a Train
(Additional Writing)
The Thing from Another World
(Writer)
The Unholy Garden
(Screenplay)