Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht h k t was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirtyfive books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films.

He became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as, We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays, he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The boycott was a response to Hechts active support of paramilitary action against British forces in Palestine and sabotaging British property there , during which time a supply ship to Palestine was named the S. S. Ben Hecht.

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