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Ben Hecht papers [box 00056], 1879-1983

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Title Ben Hecht papers [box 00056], 1879-1983

Creator Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964

Date 1879-1983

Place Germany, Germany--Berlin, Illinois--Chicago, Palestine, United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Chicago Daily News, Inc, Dramatists, American, Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi, Screenwriters

Summary Correspondence, works, subject files, legal and financial materials, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, film, video, artifacts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting the life and literary output of Ben Hecht, his wife Rose, and his actress daughter Jenny. Includes novels, articles, essays, speeches, poems, scripts, and other writings of Hecht, Rose, and friends and collaborators. Extensive correspondence includes letters from Margaret Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Maxwell Bodenheim, Gene Fowler, Moss Hart, George Jessel, Herman Kogan, Hillel Kook, Adolph Kroch, Lotte Lenya, Charles MacArthur, H.L. Mencken, and Carl Sandburg, as well as many letters between Hecht and his wife and children, and other relatives. Also photographs of Hecht and his family, his homes, friends, and the sets of plays and movies he worked on; several audio recordings, including one of the short-lived Ben Hecht Show; and numerous artifacts, including Hecht's 1929 Oscar for "Underworld." There is considerable material documenting Hecht's post-World War I term as a Chicago Daily News war correspondent in Germany, his support for an Israeli state and Irgun, and about Maxwell Bodenheim, Mickey Cohen, Charles MacArthur, Herman Mankiewicz, Carl Sandburg, Stanislaus Szukalski, and Kurt Weill.

Biographical/Historical Note Chicago and New York journalist, novelist, and playwright; Hollywood screenwriter; and Jewish activist.

Extent 94 cubic ft. (144 boxes and 19 oversize boxes)

Format Artifacts, Correspondence, Moving images, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Screenplays, Sound recordings

Archival Collection Title Midwest Manuscript Collection, Society of Collectors

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Call Number Midwest MS Hecht

BibID 259563

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions.

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1825px × 3017px 31.54 MB

File Created 02/21/2024

Filename 992595638805867_midwest_ms_hecht_box_00056_fl_01113a_000003.tif

Unique Identifier NL125IDX

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