Ben Hecht Author:William MacAdams Ben Hecht was truly larger than life. He was a prize-winning journalist and wrote four Broadway plays during the Roaring Twenties. He worked on collaborating one of the greatest plays of all time called The Front Page. But it was in Hollywood where he really came into his prime. In 1929 he won the first Oscar given to a screenwriter for... more » his silent picture, Underworld. He was a script doctor for Gone With the Wind, and wrote and co-wrote The Scoundrel. In all, he worked on 140 film scripts that were produced during his career. He worked with such notables as Howard Hawks, John Ford, David Selznick, Howard Hughes, The Barrymores, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Fanny Brice, W.C. Fields, and Dashiell Hammett. All the tumult of Hecht's personal life is revealed in this book, and in the process the evolution of the film industry from the 1920's to the 1960's.« less