Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

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2008 · 31 min · Documentary

Overview

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 classic Hollywood films.

Cast

• John Parsons — Narrator
• Rick Jewell — Self
• Leonard Maltin — Self
• Sarah Marcus — Self
• Bill Savage — Self