A Little Holiday
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Ben Hecht’s Cause, 23 September 2021
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
by Adina Hoffman.
Yale, 245 pp., £10.99, April 2020,978 0 300 25181 4 Show More
by Adina Hoffman.
Yale, 245 pp., £10.99, April 2020,
“... the three. Over the next quarter-century he wrote the screenplays for Scarface, Twentieth Century, William Wyler’s Wuthering Heights, Hitchcock’s Spellbound and Notorious, among very many others, and worked as a script doctor on movies including Stagecoach, Gone with the Wind and Roman Holiday. He helped create the gangster movie, the screwball comedy and ... ”