Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964. Front page
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Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.
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- (lcgft) Drames à clef
- (lcgft) Comedy plays
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found: Howard Hawks' his girl Friday, 1940?
found: Wikipedia, Jan. 10, 2011(Front Page; comedy play written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; first produced in 1928)
found: Ben Hecht biography, via YourDictionary.com, Nov. 15, 2012(The Front Page was very much a drame à clef, with the mayor based on a combination of Fred Busse and William Hale (Big Bill) Thompson, Jr.; the hapless leftist, Earl Williams, based on Terrible Tommy O'Connor who, sentenced to hang in 1921, escaped and was never recaptured; Hildy, the reporter, on Hilding Johnson, a Swedish immigrant who rose from copyboy to top reporter; and Walter Burns, the city editor, on Walter C. Howey, for whom MacArthur had worked on the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Herald and Examiner.)
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