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Hecht and Lancaster
Although Harry Brown's A Sound of Hunting had a run of only three weeks, Lancaster's performance drew the attention of a Hollywood agent, Harold Hecht, and through him to Hal Wallis, who cast Lancaster in The Killers ( 1946 ).
In 1952, Lancaster co-produced with producer Harold Hecht ( who had previously produced three Lancaster films under his own production company Norma Productions ; Kiss the Blood Off My Hands ( 1948 ), The Flame and the Arrow ( 1950 ), and Ten Tall Men ( 1951 )).
In 1954, they collaborated again on His Majesty O ' Keefe, with Lancaster acting and Hecht producing.
The company dissolved in 1960, but Hecht would produce two more films in which Lancaster acted, under Norma Productions, ( 1961 ) and Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ).
Twelve years later, Hecht and Lancaster produced Ulzana's Raid ( 1972 ) together.
Apart from acting in a total of seventeen films produced by Harold Hecht, Lancaster also appeared in eight films produced by Hal B. Wallis.
Harold Hecht is probably best remembered today for his association with the actor Burt Lancaster, whom he " discovered " on the New York stage and brought to Hollywood, and with whom he formed an independent film production company, breaking from the then-powerful studio system.

Hecht and later
His Girl Friday and the original Hecht and MacArthur play were later adapted into another stage play, His Girl Friday, by playwright John Guare.
Indeed, Hitchcock later claimed he was followed by the FBI for several months after he and Hecht discussed uranium with Robert Millikan at Caltech in mid-1945.
Department stores including J. C. Penney and Sears opened stores in Clarendon, and other retailers extended west along Wilson Blvd and Fairfax Drive to Virginia Square ( anchored by Kann's Department Store ) and, farther west, the Parkington Shopping Center anchored by the Hecht Company, which was later enlarged and renamed as the Ballston Common Mall.
Years later, Hecht said of this experience, The place, the suffering, the prisoners ' accounts were beyond comprehension.
One month later, on November 17, Hecht was awarded the National Medal of Arts, accepted on his behalf by his wife, Helen Hecht.
Other distinguished writers who contributed articles included Erskine Caldwell, Myril Axlerod, McGeorge Bundy, Saul K. Padover, James Wechsler ( eventually the paper's editorialist ); Penn Kimball, later a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism ; Heywood Hale Broun ; James Thurber ; Dorothy Parker ; Ernest Hemingway ; Eugene Lyons ; Ben Stolberg ; Malcolm Cowley ; future Speaker of the House Tip O ' Neill and Ben Hecht.
Hecht was chosen as the captain for the month of October 2007 and later during February 2008.

Hecht and formed
* Fortean Society, formed by New York's literati led by Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Ben Hecht

Hecht and several
26 NHL players came to play the season in the DEL, including Jamie Langenbrunner, Erik Cole, Stéphane Robidas, Doug Weight, Mike York and several German national team players -- Jochen Hecht, Olaf Kölzig, and Marco Sturm.
He wrote, "... the plausibility of the script by Ben Hecht, an old hand with station houses and sleazy underworldlings, is open to question on several counts.

Hecht and production
The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.
Frawley made his first dramatic role in 1932, playing press agent Owen O ’ Malley in the original production of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's Twentieth Century.
Mainly known for her work in Yiddish theater, where she was associated with the Yiddish Art Theater movement of the 1920s and 1930s, she also gave one of the first theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor, in Luther Adler's 1946 Broadway production of A Flag Is Born ( written by Ben Hecht and featuring a 22-year-old Marlon Brando, Stella Adler's prize pupil in method acting ).< ref >
In May 2012, a new production of the original play began previews in New York City at Studio 54 Theatre, starring Jim Parsons, Charles Kimbrough, Jessica Hecht, and Carol Kane.

Hecht and companies
Hecht has conducted training and research for companies such as Xerox, ARCO, GTE, Jackson National Life Insurance, and U-Haul.

Hecht and 1950s
Most elements from 1950s and 60s bars routines, such as the Hecht dismount and the Radolcha somersault, are now completely obsolete ; others, such as the once-traditional beats and wraps, are impossible given the current diagonal separation between bars ; and still others, such as static holds and the Korbut Flip, are not permitted under the current Code of Points.

Hecht and give
He became increasingly dependent on more independent producers such as Ben Hecht to give him work, such as Angels Over Broadway ( 1940 ) and Specter of the Rose ( 1946 ).

Hecht and .
Madero's leadership of the Revolution, presidency and assassination are depicted in at least two Hollywood movies, Viva Villa !, ( 1934 ) directed by Jack Conway, screenplay by Ben Hecht, and Viva Zapata !, ( 1952 ) directed by Elia Kazan, screenplay by John Steinbeck.
* 1894 – Ben Hecht, American playwright ( d. 1964 )
Groucho was not allowed to join an informal symphonietta of friends, organized by Ben Hecht, that included Harpo because he could only play the mandolin.
Scarface was the first film in which Hawks worked with screenwriter Ben Hecht, who became a close friend and collaborator for twenty years.
The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night ( released the same year ) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.
The film was an adaptation of the hit Broadway play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which had already been made into a film in 1931.
Brian De Palma dedicated his version of Scarface to Hawks and Ben Hecht.
* 1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet ( d. 2004 )
But Rabbi Benjamin Hecht writes that one Orthodox rabbi views homosexuality as a deliberate rebellion against God.
Note that all Jones vectors and matrices on this page assumes that the phase of the light wave is, which is used by Hecht.
* 2004 – Anthony Hecht, American poet ( b. 1923 )
It was directed by Derek Goldby and designed by Desmond Heeley and starred Paul Hecht as the Player, Brian Murray as Rosencrantz and John Wood as Guildenstern.
* April 18 – Ben Hecht, American screenwriter ( b. 1894 )
* February 28 – Ben Hecht, American playwright, film writer ( d. 1964 )
** Anthony Hecht, American poet ( d. 2004 )
* Optics, 4th edition, Eugene Hecht, Addison Wesley 2002, ISBN 0-8053-8566-5.
Scarface also became one of Hollywood's first major gangster films, and was written by Ben Hecht, a leading screenwriter.
Also in 1946, he appeared on Broadway in A Flag is Born, also written by Ben Hecht, to help promote the creation of a Jewish state in Israel.
* American ( U. S. A .)— Hecht, Anthony: " Clair de lune " ( before 1977 ); Nyhart, Nina: " Captive Pierrot " ( 1988 ; after the Paul Klee painting above under # Works on canvas, paper, and board | Works on Canvas, Paper and Board ); Peachum, Jack: " Our Pierrot in Autumn " ( 2008 ).

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