Which movies or TV shows starring or involving Ben Hecht can you stream, buy or rent in the United States?

Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Ben Hecht are, for example, Scarface, Casino Royale and 7 Faces of Dr. Lao.

Which streaming services have the largest selection of movies and TV shows in the United States starring or involving Ben Hecht?

The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, Amazon and iTunes.

What are the top-rated movies and TV shows starring or involving Ben Hecht?

The best Anystream ratings are Scarface (8.3), The Shop Around the Corner (8.2) and Gone with the Wind (8.1).

Ben Hecht Movies and TV Shows

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. At the age of 16, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops". In the 1910s and early 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. In the 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, The Front Page, became a Broadway hit. The Dictionary of Literary Biography - American Screenwriters calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures". Hecht received the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay for Underworld (1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. He also provided story ideas for such films as Stagecoach (1939). Film historian Richard Corliss called him "the Hollywood screenwriter", someone who "personified Hollywood itself". In 1940, he wrote, produced, and directed Angels Over Broadway, which was nominated for Best Screenplay. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning. He became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays, he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The boycott was a response to Hecht's active support of paramilitary action against British forces in Palestine and sabotaging British property there (see below), during which time a supply ship to Palestine was named the S. S. Ben Hecht. According to his autobiography, he never spent more than eight weeks on a script. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: 2/28/1894 (130 years old)
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

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Genre

Available on the following streaming services in the United States

Kiss of Death (1995)

5.9

56%

role:
Original Film Writer

Not available

1995

Action

Crime

Drama

Thriller

5.9

56%

Not available

Scarface (1983)

8.3

82%

role:
Original Film Writer

Ben Hecht Movies and TV Shows

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