His embrace of a Jewish “cause” came as a surprise to his family, friends, and probably to himself. He also considered himself thoroughly American and eschewed synagogue attendance – but the rise of Nazism and impending threat to Europe’s Jews shattered his indifference. Hecht accepted the invitation (the monetary offering would’ve been the equivalent of $4,210 today), and although he claimed to hate Hollywood’s values, he soon became Tinsel Town’s highest-paid screenwriter.Ĭynical about politicians and humanity in general, Hecht never involved himself in the left-wing politics that were prevalent in Hollywood during the 1930s. Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. “Will you accept $300 per week to work for Paramount Pictures? All expenses paid. In 1926, Hecht received a telegram from his friend, screenwriter Herman J. His journalistic experiences, especially in bars, brothels, and boarding houses, found expression in his classic stage play The Front Page, adapted later as a film. Following high school graduation, he headed for Chicago, where he became a brilliant newspaper reporter in the years before World War I. The French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard called Hecht “a genius who invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today.” Indeed, Hecht worked on nearly 200 films, sometimes without credit, including Gone with the Wind, Roman Holiday, A Farewell to Arms, The Front Page, Spellbound, Notorious, A Star Is Born, Wuthering Heights, Gunga Din, Stagecoach, Strangers on a Train, Duel in the Sun, and Scarface.īorn on New York City’s Lower East Side in 1893, Hecht moved at age 10 with his immigrant parents to Racine, WI. Though he never spent more than eight weeks on a script, Hecht succeeded in creating crackling dialogue and fast-talking characters. Hecht also wrote novels, magazine articles, multi-media historical pageants, and hard-hitting political commentaries. Their base in Clearwater is right next to Tampa Bay where the last two Super Bowls have been and they’ve had commercials in both, and the Tampa Bay team is probably being moved money by them to create the SuperTeam they have and get everyone to Clearwater where they have “services” waiting.In her new book, Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Yale University Press), essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman captures the turbulent life of one of America’s most talented and prolific screenwriters. is a Scientology studio and responsible for killing Stanley Kubrick, and sponsored BLM in 2020 after they rioted against my name like I were them-to Mass Brainwash the next generation and all else and sell our world out to Scientology. Repeatedly Attacked and Set-Up in HollywoodĪfter stealing my identity, West Hollywood, through Project Paperclip and Project Monarch and Scientology WISE and the CIA, the LAPD, and LA Sheriff, these guys on the left using propaganda like the New Yorker and Hari Nef created an identity of me as an unstylish Scientologist criminal and themselves as transsexual punk rock filmmakers, liberal activists against racism, to kidnap the next generations women in a Scientology brainwashing trap utilizing BLM.
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