Ben Hecht

Founded by former elementary schoolteacher and visual artist, Ben Hecht, I quickly found myself chucking my "hatred" for things like iPad books.

Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011

Founded by former elementary schoolteacher and visual artist, Ben Hecht, I quickly found myself chucking my "hatred" for things like iPad books.

Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011

There's a stellar line of talent behind the camera in "Design for Living" (1933)—directed by Ernst Lubitsch, scripted by Ben Hecht and based on a Noël Coward play—and a none-too-happy platonic ménage à trois (played by Fredric March, Gary Cooper and Miriam Hopkins) in front of it, complete with frank sexual jockeying and dialogue that's tart even to modern ears.

On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles Anthony Paletta 2011

Founded by former elementary schoolteacher and visual artist, Ben Hecht, I quickly found myself chucking my "hatred" for things like iPad books.

Greg Archer: Apps for Parents: New Children's Tales by VivaBook Are Worth Exploring Greg Archer 2011

A uniquely Lubitschian picture in its elegance and graceful wisdom, with the gruffly intelligent, street-smart Hollywood writer and soon-to-be legend Ben Hecht collaborating, this take on the trials, titillations, and torments of a kind of relationship usually seen in true adult films, a ménage à trois and one involving the gorgeous trio of Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins, is unlike any other movie of its era.

Kim Morgan: It Takes Three: Design for Living Kim Morgan 2011

Adapted in 1931 from a Broadway farce by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, this rat-a-tat yarn established the newspaper reporter as a rough-and-ready huckster, cousin to the Chicago bootlegger, always happy to break the rules to get the scoop.

Culture Flash: dodgy hacks 2011

Working with renowned writer Ben Hecht, he placed full-page ads in 100 newspapers challenging America's apathy to the unfolding genocide.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2011

Working with renowned writer Ben Hecht, he placed full-page ads in 100 newspapers challenging America's apathy to the unfolding genocide.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper: True Heroes For Our Time And Beyond Rabbi Abraham Cooper 2011

The Criterion box picks up the story two years later, when Paramount entrusted Sternberg with a Ben Hecht scenario titled "Underworld" 1927.

Master of the Mise-en-Scène David Mermelstein 2011

Notorious (1946) was written for the screen by Ben Hecht (with contributions from Hitchcock) based on John Taintor Foote's story.

Readers' Reviews 2011