Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood (2008)

As a newspaper writer in Chicago, young Ben Hecht saw it all and learned how to captivate an audience with his writing. By the 1920s, he took that talent to Hollywood as a screenwriter, where he crafted some of the classic Hollywood films.

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John Parsons

Narrator

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Rick Jewell

Self

Leonard Maltin

Self

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Sarah Marcus

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Bill Savage

Self

Richard Schickel

Self

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