![]() ![]() How much more marvelous was the Marvelous Sarastro if one believed him? How much more entertaining this Arabian Night in which he lived, could one accept it with the heart of a child rather than the dull incredulity of a modern author.” (from ‘The Shadow’ in The Collected Stories of Ben Hecht, 1945)īen Hecht was was born in New York as the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. ![]() –Often, while listening his Mother Goose mysticism, his Munchausen adventures, his garbled and pompous chatter of genii, sylphs, and undines, I have grown annoyed at my own skepticism. “… But Sarastro was the true charlatan and one forgave him this. ![]() As a prolific storyteller, Ben Hecht authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or plays, among them THE FRONT PAGE with Charlie MacArthur (also filmed as HIS GIRL FRIDAY), TWENTIETH CENTURY, UNDERWORLD, NOTORIOUS, THE SCOUNDREL (as play ALL HE EVER LOVED), SOME LIKE IT HOT etc. American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, novelist, “the Shakespeare of Hollywood”, who received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films. ![]()
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