Ben Hecht

Switching Channels
Movie, 1988

• Director: Ted Kotcheff
• Main cast: Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Reeve
• Music: Michel Legrand

Seven Faces of Dr. Lao
Movie, 1964

• Director: George Pal
• Main cast: Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Arthur O'Connell, Tony Randall

Circus World
Movie, 1964

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Claudia Cardinale, Lloyd Nolan
• Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Walk on the Wild Side
Movie, 1962

• Director: Edward Dmytryk
• Main cast: Anne Baxter, Jane Fonda, Capucine, Laurence Harvey
• Music: Elmer Bernstein

North to Alaska
Movie, 1960

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Fabiano Forte, Ernie Kovacs
• Music: Lionel Newman

The Fiend Who Walked the West
Movie, 1958

• Director: Gordon Douglas
• Main cast: Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, Linda Cristal
• Music: Bernard Herrmann, Sol Kaplan, Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter

Timbuctù
Movie, 1957

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
• Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino

The Iron Petticoat
Movie, 1956

• Director: Ralph Thomas
• Main cast: Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, James Robertson Justice, Noelle Middleton
• Music: Benjamin Frankel

The Indian Fighter
Movie, 1955

• Director: André de Toth
• Main cast: Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Diana Douglas, Elsa Martinelli
• Music: Franz Waxman

The Man with the Golden Arm
Movie, 1955

• Director: Otto Preminger
• Main cast: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang
• Music: Elmer Bernstein

Terminal Station
Movie, 1953

• Director: Vittorio De Sica
• Main cast: Richard Beymer, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi
• Music: Alessandro Cicognini

Darling, I'm Growing Younger
Movie, 1952

• Director: Howard Hawks
• Main cast: Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn

Actor's and Sin
Movie, 1952

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Alan Reed, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt
• Music: George Antheil

Strangers On a Train
Movie, 1951

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Main cast: Ruth Roman, Farley Granger
• Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

The Secret of Convict Lake
Movie, 1951

• Main cast: Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore, Glenn Ford, Zachary Scott
• Music: Sol Kaplan

Edge of Doom
Movie, 1950

• Director: Mark Robson
• Main cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Evans, Farley Granger, Robert Keith
• Music: Hugo Friedhofer

Perfect Strangers
Movie, 1950

• Director: Bretaigne Windust
• Main cast: Ginger Rogers, Margalo Gillmore, Dennis Morgan, Thelma Ritter

September Affair
Movie, 1950

• Main cast: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Jessica Tandy, Françoise Rosay
• Music: Victor Young

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Movie, 1950

• Director: Otto Preminger
• Main cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Bert Freed, Gary Merrill
• Music: Cyril J. Mockridge

Big Jack
Movie, 1949

• Director: Richard Thorpe
• Main cast: Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main
• Music: Herbert Stothart

The Inspector General
Movie, 1949

• Director: Henry Koster
• Main cast: Danny Kaye, Elsa Lanchester, Barbara Bates, Walter Slezak

Marx Brothers [1949] Love Happy
Movie, 1949

• Main cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Ilona Massey
• Music: Ann Ronell

Roseanna McCoy
Movie, 1949

• Director: Nicholas Ray, Irving Reis
• Main cast: Joan Evans, Farley Granger, Aline MacMahon, Raymond Massey
• Music: David Buttolph

We Were Strangers
Movie, 1949

• Director: John Huston
• Main cast: John Garfield, Ramon Novarro, Gilbert Roland
• Music: George Antheil

Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie, 1949

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Martin Balsam, Tom Ewell, Judson Laire

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
Movie, 1948

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Main cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Edith Evanson, Farley Granger

Cry of the City
Movie, 1948

• Director: Robert Siodmak
• Main cast: Victor Mature, Shelley Winters, Richard Conte
• Music: Alfred Newman

The Miracle of the Bells
Movie, 1948

• Director: Irving Pichel
• Main cast: Lee J. Cobb, Frank Sinatra, Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli

Dishonored Lady
Movie, 1947

• Director: Robert Stevenson
• Main cast: Hedy Lamarr, John Loder, William Lundigan, Dennis O'Keefe
• Music: Carmen Dragon

Kiss of Death
Movie, 1947

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray
• Music: David Buttolph

Paradine Case
Movie, 1947

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Main cast: Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Alida Valli
• Music: Franz Waxman

Ride the Pink Horse
Movie, 1947

• Main cast: Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King
• Music: Frank Skinner

King Vidor's Duel in the Sun
Movie, 1946

• Director: Josef von Sternberg, King Vidor
• Main cast: Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore, Joseph Cotten
• Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Gilda
Movie, 1946

• Director: Charles Vidor
• Main cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Joseph Calleia, George Macready
• Music: Hugo Friedhofer

Spectre of the Rose
Movie, 1946

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Viola Essen, Ivan Kirov
• Music: George Antheil

Spellbound
Movie, 1945

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Main cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov
• Music: Miklós Rózsa

Watchtower Over Tomorrow
Movie, 1945

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, John Cromwell, Harold F. Kress
• Main cast: John Nesbitt

Lifeboat
Movie, 1944

• Director: Alfred Hitchcock
• Main cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Mary Anderson, Walter Slezak
• Music: Hugo Friedhofer

Rafael Sabatini's The Black Swan
Movie, 1942

• Director: Henry King
• Main cast: Maureen O'Hara, Tyrone Power, Laird Cregar
• Music: Alfred Newman, David Buttolph, Hugo Friedhofer

China Girl
Movie, 1942

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: Gene Tierney, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, George Montgomery
• Music: Alfred Newman, Hugo Friedhofer

Tales of Manhattan
Movie, 1942

• Director: Julien Duvivier
• Main cast: Henry Fonda, Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers
• Music: Sol Kaplan

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Movie, 1942

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, George Montgomery
• Music: Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman, David Buttolph

Shop Around the Corner, The (1940)
Movie, 1940

• Main cast: James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut, Margaret Sullavan
• Music: Werner R. Heymann

His Girl Friday
Movie, 1940

• Director: Howard Hawks
• Main cast: Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Rosalind Russell
• Music: Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills, Ben Oakland

Angels Over Broadway
Movie, 1940

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Rita Hayworth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Qualen
• Music: George Antheil

Comrade X
Movie, 1940

• Director: King Vidor
• Main cast: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Felix Bressart, Oskar Homolka
• Music: Daniele Amfitheatrof, Bronislau Kaper

Second Chorus
Movie, 1940

• Main cast: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Charles Butterworth

Gone With the Wind
Movie, 1939

• Director: George Cukor, Sam Wood
• Main cast: Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
• Music: Max Steiner

Stagecoach
Movie, 1939

• Director: John Ford
• Main cast: John Wayne, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Claire Trevor
• Music: Gerard Carbonara

It's a Wonderful World
Movie, 1939

• Director: W.S. Van Dyke
• Main cast: James Stewart, Claudette Colbert, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton

Eternally Yours
Movie, 1939

• Director: Tay Garnett
• Main cast: David Niven, Billie Burke, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith
• Music: Werner Janssen

Lady of the Tropics
Movie, 1939

• Director: Jack Conway
• Main cast: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Taylor, Gloria Franklin, Joseph Schildkraut

Let Freedom Ring
Movie, 1939

• Director: Jack Conway
• Main cast: Lionel Barrymore, Virginia Bruce, Nelson Eddy, Victor McLaglen
• Music: Arthur Lange

Rhythm Romance
Movie, 1939

• Director: George Archainbaud
• Main cast: Bob Hope, Una Merkel, Gene Krupa, Shirley Ross

Angels with Dirty Faces
Movie, 1938

• Director: Michael Curtiz
• Main cast: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien
• Music: Max Steiner

The Goldwyn Follies
Movie, 1938

• Main cast: Adolphe Menjou, Vera Zorina
• Music: George Gershwin

King of Gamblers
Movie, 1937

• Director: Robert Florey
• Main cast: Lloyd Nolan, Akim Tamiroff, Claire Trevor

Nothing Sacred
Movie, 1937

• Main cast: Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
• Music: Oscar Levant

Woman Chases Man
Movie, 1937

• Director: John G. Blystone
• Main cast: Joel McCrea, Miriam Hopkins, Erik Rhodes, Charles Winninger
• Music: Alfred Newman

Soak the Rich
Movie, 1936

• Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Mary Taylor

The Florentine Dagger
Movie, 1935

• Director: Robert Florey
• Main cast: Margaret Lindsay, Henry O'Neill, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods

Spring Tonic
Movie, 1935

• Director: Clyde Bruckman
• Main cast: Lew Ayres, Walter Woolf King, Claire Trevor

Crime Without Passion
Movie, 1934

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges
• Music: Oscar Levant, Frank Tours

The President Vanishes
Movie, 1934

• Main cast: Arthur Byron, Peggy Conklin
• Music: Hugo Riesenfeld, Edward B. Powell, Clifford Vaughan

Riptide
Movie, 1934

• Director: Edmund Goulding
• Main cast: Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Norma Shearer
• Music: Herbert Stothart

Shoot the Works
Movie, 1934

• Director: Wesley Ruggles
• Main cast: Ben Bernie, Dorothy Dell, Jack Oakie, Alison Skipworth

20th Century
Movie, 1934

• Director: Howard Hawks
• Main cast: Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Viva Villa!
Movie, 1934

• Director: Jack Conway
• Main cast: Wallace Beery, Donald Cook, Leo Carrillo, Fay Wray
• Music: Herbert Stothart

Design for Living
Movie, 1933

• Main cast: Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, Miriam Hopkins, Fredric March
• Music: John Leipold

Queen Christina
Movie, 1933

• Director: Rouben Mamoulian
• Main cast: Greta Garbo
• Music: Herbert Stothart

Turn Back the Clock
Movie, 1933

• Director: Edgar Selwyn
• Main cast: George Barbier, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, Lee Tracy

Scarface, The Shame of the Nation
Movie, 1932

• Director: Howard Hawks
• Main cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
• Music: Adolph Tandler

Back Street
Movie, 1932

• Director: John M. Stahl
• Main cast: Irene Dunne, John Boles, George Meeker, Zasu Pitts
• Music: David Broekman

The Beast of the City
Movie, 1932

• Director: Charles Brabin
• Main cast: Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Walter Huston

Million Dollar Legs
Movie, 1932

• Director: Edward F. Cline
• Main cast: W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Jack Oakie, Lyda Roberti
• Music: Rudolph G. Kopp, John Leipold

Rasputin and the Empress
Movie, 1932

• Director: Richard Boleslawski
• Main cast: Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Tad Alexander, Ralph Morgan
• Music: Herbert Stothart

Shirley Temple Runt Page
Movie, 1932

• Director: Ray Nazarro
• Main cast: Shirley Temple, Billy Bletcher

Quick Millions
Movie, 1931

• Director: Rowland Brown
• Main cast: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers

The Sin of Madelon Claudet
Movie, 1931

• Director: Edgar Selwyn
• Main cast: Cliff Edwards, Neil Hamilton, Helen Hayes

Street of Chance
Movie, 1930

• Director: John Cromwell
• Main cast: Jean Arthur, William Powell, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey
• Music: John Leipold

Actor's and Sin
Narrator (segment "Woman of Sin")
Movie, 1952

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Alan Reed, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt
• Music: George Antheil

Angels Over Broadway
Man in Night Court
Movie, 1940

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Rita Hayworth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Qualen
• Music: George Antheil

The Scoundrel
Flop House Bum
Movie, 1935

• Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper

Crime Without Passion
Court Interviewer with Pipe
Movie, 1934

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges
• Music: Oscar Levant, Frank Tours

Actor's and Sin
Movie, 1952

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Alan Reed, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt
• Music: George Antheil

Concerning a Woman of Sin
Movie, 1949

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Martin Balsam, Tom Ewell, Judson Laire

Spectre of the Rose
Movie, 1946

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Viola Essen, Ivan Kirov
• Music: George Antheil

Angels Over Broadway
Movie, 1940

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Rita Hayworth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Qualen
• Music: George Antheil

Soak the Rich
Movie, 1936

• Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Mary Taylor

The Scoundrel
Movie, 1935

• Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper

Crime Without Passion
Movie, 1934

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges
• Music: Oscar Levant, Frank Tours

Actor's and Sin
Movie, 1952

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Alan Reed, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Albert, Marsha Hunt
• Music: George Antheil

Spectre of the Rose
Movie, 1946

• Director: Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Viola Essen, Ivan Kirov
• Music: George Antheil

China Girl
Movie, 1942

• Director: Henry Hathaway
• Main cast: Gene Tierney, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, George Montgomery
• Music: Alfred Newman, Hugo Friedhofer

Angels Over Broadway
Movie, 1940

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht
• Main cast: Rita Hayworth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., John Qualen
• Music: George Antheil

Soak the Rich
Movie, 1936

• Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Mary Taylor

The Scoundrel
Movie, 1935

• Director: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper

Crime Without Passion
Movie, 1934

• Director: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
• Main cast: Claude Rains, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges
• Music: Oscar Levant, Frank Tours