Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately, a posthumous cast is almost all that distinguishes Shoot the Works from innumerable other cinemusi-comedies. It was loosely assembled from Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler's loose play, The Great Magoo, and named after "a revue produced by Heywood Broun two years ago. Retold is the familiar narrative about a young actress who makes good and her overconfident lover, a sidewalk concessionaire named Nicky Nelson (Jack Oakie), who absents himself during" the middle of the story to facilitate her career. Best song: "With My Eyes Wide Open, I'm Dreaming." Best joke: the reply of Nicky...
...Decency will probably take loud alarm at She Loves Me Not, Sailor, Beware! and The Pursuit of Happiness, all Manhattan stage successes of the last season and all concerned with misbehavior. A Paramount experiment this year will be four pictures produced in Manhattan by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht...
Adroitly in this sequence Author Ben Hecht and Director Roy Del Ruth let the audience's sympathies waver between the honest railman and the honest officer. Yet when the case is broken by newshawks and the picture moves to its routine end, everyone appears to have forgotten the policeman, last seen in his cell. Good shot: Toler losing his best piece of evidence, in the Police Commissioner's office...
Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg...
...Chancellor Dollfuss to do. Just a year after he had dissolved Parliament, he let it be known last week that the old Constitution of Austria was definitely and finally abolished, that a new Austro-Fascist Constitution would be proclaimed within a week. In the Official Gazette Government Adviser Robert Hecht explained things...