Ben Hecht
February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964
Inducted in 2013
Books (partial list)
1001 Afternoons in Chicago (1922)
Fantazius Mallare, a Mysterious Oath (1922)
The Florentine Dagger: A Novel for Amateur Detectives (1923)
Kingdom of Evil (1924)
Broken Necks (1926)
Count Bruga (1926)
A Jew in Love (1931)
The Book of Miracles (1939)
A Guide for the Bedevilled (1944)
The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht (1945)
Perfidy (1962)
Concerning a Woman of Sin (1964)
Gaily, Gaily, Signet (1963)
A Child of the Century (1954) (May 30, 1985)
The Front Page (1998)
The Champion from Far Away (1931)
Actor's Blood (1936)
A Treasury of Ben Hecht: Collected Stories and Other Writings (1959)
Erik Dorn
I Hate Actors!
1001 Afternoons in New York
The Sensualists
Winkelberg (play)
Miracle in the Rain
Letters from Bohemia
Gargoyles
The Egoist
Screenplays
Kiss of Death
Casino Royale (uncredited)
Circus World
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (uncredited)
Cleopatra (uncredited)
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Mutiny on the Bounty (uncredited)
Walk on the Wild Side (uncredited)
North to Alaska (uncredited)
John Paul Jones (uncredited)
The Gun Runners (uncredited)
Queen of Outer Space
Legend of the Lost
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Miracle in the Rain
The Iron Petticoat
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (uncredited)
Trapeze (uncredited)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (uncredited)
The Indian Fighter
The Man with the Golden Arm (uncredited)
Guys and Dolls (uncredited)
Living It Up (based on his play Hazel Flagg)
Ulysses
Light's Diamond Jubilee (television)
Terminal Station (uncredited)
Angel Face (uncredited)
Hans Christian Andersen (uncredited)
Monkey Business
Actors and Sin (also directed and produced)
The Wild Heart (uncredited)
The Thing from Another World (uncredited)
The Secret of Convict Lake (uncredited)
Strangers on a Train (uncredited)
September Affair (uncredited)
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Edge of Doom (uncredited)
Perfect Strangers
Love Happy (uncredited)
The Inspector General (uncredited)
Whirlpool
Roseanna McCoy (uncredited)
Big Jack (uncredited)
Portrait of Jennie (uncredited)
Cry of the City (uncredited)
Rope (uncredited)
The Miracle of the Bells
Dishonored Lady (uncredited)
Her Husband's Affairs
The Paradine Case (uncredited)
Ride the Pink Horse
Kiss of Death
Duel in the Sun (uncredited)
Notorious
A Flag is Born
Specter of the Rose (also directed and produced)
Gilda (uncredited)
Cornered (uncredited)
Spellbound
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Lifeboat (uncredited)
The Outlaw (uncredited)
China Girl
Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
The Black Swan
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (uncredited)
Roxie Hart (uncredited)
Lydia
The Mad Doctor (uncredited)
Comrade X
Second Chorus (uncredited)
Angels Over Broadway (also directed and produced)
Foreign Correspondent (final scene-uncredited)
The Shop Around the Corner (uncredited)
His Girl Friday
I Take This Woman (uncredited)
Gone with the Wind (uncredited)
At the Circus (uncredited)
Lady of the Tropics
It's a Wonderful World
Wuthering Heights
Let Freedom Ring
Stagecoach (uncredited)
Gunga Din
Angels with Dirty Faces (uncredited)
The Goldwyn Follies
Nothing Sacred
The Hurricane (uncredited)
The Prisoner of Zenda (uncredited)
Woman Chases Man (uncredited)
King of Gamblers (uncredited)
A Star Is Born (uncredited)
Soak the Rich (also directed)
The Scoundrel (also directed)
Spring Tonic
Barbary Coast
Once in a Blue Moon (also directed)
The Florentine Dagger
The President Vanishes (uncredited)
Crime Without Passion (also directed)
Shoot the Works
Twentieth Century (uncredited)
Upperworld
Viva Villa!
Riptide (uncredited)
Queen Christina (uncredited)
Design for Living
Turn Back the Clock
Topaze
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Back Street (uncredited)
Rasputin and the Empress (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs (uncredited)
Scarface
The Beast of the City (uncredited)
The Unholy Garden (1931 film)
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (uncredited)
Monkey Business (uncredited)
Homicide Squad (uncredited)
Quick Millions (uncredited)
Le Spectre vert
Roadhouse Nights
Street of Chance (uncredited)
The Unholy Night
The Great Gabbo
The Big Noise
The American Beauty (uncredited)
Underworld
The New Klondike (uncredited)