Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

0.0 2008 31 min
Documentary

As a newspaper writer in Chicago, young Ben Hecht saw it all and learned how to captivate an audience with his writing. By the 1920s, he took that talent to Hollywood as a screenwriter, where he crafted some of the clas…

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David R. O'Dell

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John Parsons Narrator
Rick Jewell Self
Leonard Maltin Self
Sarah Marcus Self
Bill Savage Self
Richard Schickel Self

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