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.

* Sensatsiia, 1930 ( from the play The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles Mac Arthur )

* April 18 – Ben Hecht, American screenwriter ( b. 1894 )

* February 28 – Ben Hecht, American playwright, film writer ( d. 1964 )

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.

Beaumont famously scripted the film Queen of Outer Space from an outline by Ben Hecht, deliberately writing the screenplay as a parody.

The Front Page is a hit Broadway comedy about tabloid newspaper reporters on the police beat, written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur which was first produced in 1928.

Category: Plays by Ben Hecht

is a 1934 American film starring Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa and was written by Ben Hecht, adapted from a biography by Edgecumb Pinchon and Odo B. Stade.

* Writing ( Adaptation ) ( Ben Hecht )

The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of " The Stage to Lordsburg ", a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox.

His next, The Front Page, brought the Ben Hecht / Charles MacArthur play to the screen.

Ben Hecht ( ; 1894 – 1964 )

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.

His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur.

The story was by Myles Connolly, its screenplay was by Moss Hart and Ben Hecht ( uncredited ), and was produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions.

It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel The House of Dr. Edwardes ( 1927 ) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer ( writing as " Francis Beeding ").

According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.

The show was judged by Ben Folds, Shawn Stockman, and Nicole Scherzinger and was won by an all-male group from Puerto Rico called Nota.

The film gained eight Academy Awards nominations, including Best Director, and won two statues, for Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson in the supporting acting categories.

In 1950, he won 11 events, placing him third in that category behind Byron Nelson ( 18, in 1945 ) and Ben Hogan ( 13, in 1946 ).

Second was Ben Ulenga from the Congress of Democrats ( COD ), that won 10. 49 % of the votes.

In addition to that, Wyler has the distinction of having won the Academy Award for Best Direction on three occasions, for his direction of Ben Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Mrs. Miniver.

Although finishing second to the Frenchman Hermann Panzo by 0. 01 secs in the 100, Wells emphatically won the 200 beating the top four American sprinters Mel Lattany, Jeff Phillips, Stanley Floyd, Steve Williams as well as Canada's Ben Johnson in the 100 / 200, 10. 15 / 20. 15 ( 200 wind assist ) for Wells to win the event in an aggregate 30. 30.

In 1906, the " Milwaukee Meteor " repeated his Olympic 100 m victory in Athens, a feat not equalled until 1988, when Carl Lewis won the 100 m twice in a row ( albeit after disqualification of Ben Johnson ).

" It won four Academy Awards: Best Original Score, Best Sound ( Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, Gene Cantamessa ), Best Sound Effects Editing ( Charles L. Campbell and Ben Burtt )

The Last Picture Show won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor ( Ben Johnson ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Cloris Leachman ).

After Ben Hogan won that championship in 1953, few American professionals had travelled to play in The Open, due to its travel requirements, relatively small prize purses, and the style of its links courses ( radically different from most American courses ).

Under owner James Ben Ali Haggin, the Rancho was famous for its horse breeding ; one of the horses bred on the Rancho won the Ben Ali Stakes, also known as the Kentucky Derby.

In light of 1997's big winner, Titanic, the film won only the Oscar for Best Original Music Score ( Musical or Comedy ) by Anne Dudley, with the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars going to Titanic and its director James Cameron, and the Best Original Screenplay Oscar going to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting.

Other notable winners include Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Ben Crenshaw and José María Olazábal, who have all won the Masters twice.

Ben Lee used a toy piano in the song " Catch My Disease " which became popular in 2005 and won several awards.

Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE ( born Krishna Pandit Bhanji ; Gujarati: ક ૃ ષ ્ ણ ા પ ં ડ િ ત ભ ા ણજ ી; 31 December 1943 ) is an English actor who has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career.

During this period, The Open often had a schedule conflict with the match-play PGA Championship, which meant that Ben Hogan, the best American golfer at this time, competed in The Open just once, in 1953 at Carnoustie, a tournament he won.

* " Hogan's Alley ", a nickname for the Colonial Country Club because of Ben Hogan's success there in the annual PGA Tour event, which he won a record five times

A hotheaded and intemperate debater, Tillman became known as " Pitchfork Ben " after a 1896 Senate speech in which he " won the voters ' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland.

Ben Hogan, who has won the career grand slam once

Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.

Its staff of Sound Designers and Re-Recording Mixers have either won or been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound and Best Sound Editing every year since Star Wars in 1977 ( in that year Ben Burtt was given a Special Achievement Award, since the category for Sound Editing had not yet been established ).

McLendon had several of his star players from Tennessee State such as John Barnhill and Ben Warley, plus several former Akron Wingfoots, such as Johnny Cox and Jimmy Darrow, who had won the AAU National Championship the year before.