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Ben Hecht (Benny, Lester Barlow) was born on 28 February, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA, is a writer,actor,producer. Discover Ben Hecht's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Benny, Lester Barlow |
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writer,actor,producer |
| Age |
70 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces |
| Born |
28 February, 1894 |
| Birthday |
28 February |
| Birthplace |
New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of death |
18 April, 1964 |
| Died Place |
New York City, New York, USA |
| Nationality |
United States
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Ben Hecht Height, Weight & Measurements
At 70 years old, Ben Hecht height not available right now. We will update Ben Hecht's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Ben Hecht's Wife?
His wife is Rose Caylor (1925 - 18 April 1964) ( his death) ( 1 child), Marie Armstrong (30 October 1915 - 27 February 1926) ( divorced) ( 1 child)
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Rose Caylor (1925 - 18 April 1964) ( his death) ( 1 child), Marie Armstrong (30 October 1915 - 27 February 1926) ( divorced) ( 1 child) |
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Ben Hecht Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ben Hecht worth at the age of 70 years old? Ben Hecht’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United States. We have estimated Ben Hecht's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Underworld (1927) | $10,000 |
| Scarface: The Shame of the Nation (1932) | $1,000 /day |
| Gone with the Wind (1939) | $5,000 |
| Spellbound (1945) | $70 .000 |
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Timeline
Born on February 28, 1894, Hecht made his name as a Chicago newspaperman during the heady days of cutthroat competition among newspapers and journalists. As a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, he wrote the column "1001 Afternoons in Chicago" and broke the "Ragged Stranger Murder Case" story, which led to the conviction and execution of Army war hero Carl Wanderer for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1921. The newspaper business, which he and MacArthur famously parodied in "The Front Page", was a good training ground for a screenwriter, as he had to write vivid prose and had to write quickly.
While in New York in 1926 he received a telegram from friend Herman J. Mankiewicz, who had recently arrived in Hollywood. The telegram read: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.
" Hecht moved to Hollywood, winding up at Paramount, working uncredited on the script for Lewis Milestone's adaptation of Ring Lardner's story The New Klondike (1926), starring silent superstar Thomas Meighan.
Ben Hecht, one of Hollywood's and Broadway's greatest writers, won an Oscar for best original story for Underworld (1927) at the first Academy Awards in 1929 and had a hand in the writing of many classic films.
However, it was his script for Josef von Sternberg's seminal gangster picture Underworld (1927) that got him noticed.
As a playwright, novelist and short-story writer, Hecht always denigrated writing for the movies, but it is for such films as Scarface (1932) and Nothing Sacred (1937) as well The Front Page (1931), based on his play of the same name, for which he is best remembered.
He was nominated five more times for the best writing Oscar, winning (along with writing partner and friend Charles MacArthur, with whom he wrote the classic play "The Front Page") for The Scoundrel (1935) (the other nominations were for Viva Villa! (1934) in 1935, Wuthering Heights (1939) (shared with MacArthur), Angels Over Broadway (1940) and Notorious (1946), the latter two for best original screenplay). Hecht wrote fast and wrote well, and he was called upon by many producers as a highly paid script doctor. He was paid $10,000 by producer David O.
Selznick for a fast doctoring of the Gone with the Wind (1939) script, for which he received no credit and for which Sidney Howard won an Oscar, beating out Hecht and MacArthur's Wuthering Heights (1939) script.
Hecht's incendiary, anti-British statements in the late 1940s (due to their involvement with Israel) so angered the nation that the UK prints of the film Whirlpool replaced his name with a pseudonym, Lester Barstow.
Had his own TV talk show in the New York City area in the 1950s and early 1960s.
In August '36'Gaily Gaily, a segment of his autobiography was published. A fuller account 'A Child of the Century' came out in 1954.
From then until the 1960s, he was arguably the most famous, if not the highest paid, screenwriter of his time.
Brian De Palma dedicated Scarface (1983), his remake of the film Scarface (1932) that Hecht wrote, to him.
Hecht was portrayed by Mark Kiely in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Young Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Blues (1993).
