Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood
- Movies
- 2008-04-29
- EN
- Released
- 0h 31m
- US
- Documentary
Production
Lucasfilm Ltd.
Storyline
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.