Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film than they are in fact: so pat a plot raised the question whether two hearts were meeting or merely two dazzling luminaries being drawn to each other. The gala celebrations at Monaco last week began to sound like a Graustark script cynically brought up to date by Ben Hecht. Or so it seemed in the beginning...
...week's end TV began acting its age again with the Ford Star Jubilee production of Hecht & MacArthur's Twentieth Century, starring Orson Welles and Betty Grable. The 24-year-old farce about how an unsuccessful theatrical impresario (Welles) gets together with his old flame, a successful movie star (Grable) on the Twentieth Century Limited between Chicago and New York is still young and funny. The plot is zany yet convincing, the characters oddballs yet winning (including an alcoholic pressagent and a lovable lunatic), the lines still fresh ("What a perfect death scene," sighs the star. "So simple...
Though Lucy makes no visible mark on any literary target, it has already hit the bull's-eye of high finance. The Hollywood team of Hecht-Lancaster has paid Author Shaw the record prepublication sum of $400,000 for the film rights to his novel with a possible $350,000 more. His publishers are running off a fat initial printing of 50,000 copies, and Lucy seems assured of elbowing her way into top company on current bestseller lists...
They are Mary Chandler, Eliot Hall and New York City, a History and Literature major; Irene D. Hecht, Cambridge, History; Svetlana Liontieff, Cambridge, History and Literature; Anne Ruggles, Barnard Hall and Dallas, Texas, Anthropology; and Sheila Ungeheuer, Cambridge, History and Literature...
...offers to finance and distribute, as well as promote, the films of independent producers. The producers are the owners of their products, and in return for United Artist assistance, share their profits with the company. Among those who have taken advantage of the United Artist idea: Rita Hayworth, Hecht-Lancaster, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Errol Flynn, Abbott and Costello, Cary Grant. Reasons for liking the U.A. formula: i) U.A. does not interfere in production, 2) the artist can make a lot of money, 3) because...