Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Front Page (by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. & Thomas Spengler) is still, after 18 years, a good show. Last week it proved it the hard way-by withstanding a half-botched production. Despite rather limp staging and several performers who seemed in the wrong roles or even in the wrong profession, Hecht's and MacArthur's rowdy salute to their Chicago newspaper days has brash, improbable life and gaudy, slapdash color...
Inner Sanctum (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). The Specter of the Rose, an adaptation of the movie, narrated by its author-producer, Ben Hecht...
Notorious (RKO Radio) is a top-drawer thriller, as might be expected with all the top-drawer talent involved; Alfred Hitchcock directed Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant through the Ben Hecht yarn...
...intelligence services. The inept way G-Agents Bergman and Grant fumble around with Mr. Rains's key ring and his cellar, clumsily knocking over bottles of uranium samples, may make audiences conclude that the pair would have tough going with the simplest civil service exam. But with Messrs. Hecht and Hitchcock on their side, no mere Nazi is quick enough for them at the finish...
Storm Center. At the heart of all the whoopdedoo was a dead calm: nobody was excited in the quiet, blue-walled pressroom of the Criminal Courts Building where Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur laid the scene of their famed newspaper play. Grey survivors of Front Pager Hildy Johnson's day were at work on the story. Said 63-year-old Albert Benziger of the Herald-American: "This is without doubt the damnedest story we've ever had. Hildy would be having a hell of a time with...