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Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

Genres
Documentary
Rating
No Rating
StatusReleased
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesUnited States of America
Release Date2008-04-29
Runtime31 mins

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 & Crew

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John Parsons

as Narrator

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Rick Jewell

as Self

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Leonard Maltin

as Self

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Sarah Marcus

as Self

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Bill Savage

as Self

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Richard Schickel

as Self

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