Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal, plays a MIG-wig in the Red air force who flies to the West in protest over a missed promotion. Bob Hope, a major in the U.S. Air Force, is assigned the "sensitive" task of inducing her to "embrace democracy." After that, the script-mostly by Ben Hecht, though he has wisely refused to acknowledge it (TIME, Oct. 15)-degenerates noisily into a lot of Hechtic foolishness. For a couple of reels the leading comedian plays it, riot for goofaws, but for the quiet snickers he is really better at getting; yet in the last half of the picture...
...Trapeze (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists...
When Hollywood partners part, they often do it with a bang. Author Ben Hecht and Cinemactor Bob Hope were partners in MGM's The Iron Petticoat, a Ninotchka-type farce co-starring Hope and Katharine Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter...
...Signed] BEN HECHT...
...complaint to void his contract and collect damages of $142,500 plus interest, Cinemactor Ernest (Marty) Borgnine went on record to say that sudden success in the movies is not necessarily followed by sudden riches in real life. On Borgnine's last movie, the holders of his contract (Hecht-Lancaster) allegedly exercised their contractual right to pre-empt his services, then lent him out to do the same movie he was negotiating for. His contract-holders got "at least $75,000." Borgnine got $15,000. The movie: The Best Things in Life Are Free...