ValTagliaferri · @valtagliaferri
63 followers · 771 posts · Server mastodon.uno
#primapagina Siamo agli inizi degli anni Settanta, e la carta stampata ma soprattutto la televisione plasmano, spesso senza remore, l’opinione pubblica. Così il grande #BillyWilder decide di riportare sul grande schermo la commedia teatrale #TheFrontPage scritta da #BenHecht (fra i più importanti e prolifici sceneggiatori della prima epoca d’oro di Hollywood, autore di script come #Scarface http://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/?p=19650 #UnoCinema #cinema #film #UnoFilm #waltermatthau #jacklemmon
#primapagina #billywilder #thefrontpage #benhecht #Scarface #unocinema #cinema #film #unofilm #waltermatthau #jacklemmon
Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
6 followers · 260 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity, for a time.”
Leopoldine Konstantin in Notorious
#Notorious #Hitchcock #AlfredHitchcock #BenHecht
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
#notorious #hitchcock #alfredhitchcock #benhecht #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
4 followers · 253 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Flowers are for dead people.”
Erich von Stroheim in The Great Gabbo
#TheGreatGabbo #JamesCruze #ErichVonStroheim #BenHecht #HughHerbert #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
#thegreatgabbo #jamescruze #erichvonstroheim #benhecht #hughherbert #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
Classic Movies Today · @classicmovies
197 followers · 815 posts · Server botsin.space
88 years ago:
The Scoundrel (US)
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
1935-04-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37089
#TheScoundrel #BenHecht #NoëlCoward #EduardoCiannelli #Movies
#thescoundrel #benhecht #noelcoward #eduardociannelli #movies
Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
4 followers · 59 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Well, boys, it’s the only thing we can do. Let’s forget sex . No sex.”
Miriam Hopkins in Design for Living
#designforliving #lubitsch #ernstlubitsch #miriamhopkins #benhecht #noelcoward
#moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
#designforliving #lubitsch #ernstlubitsch #miriamhopkins #benhecht #noelcoward #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
3 followers · 33 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Owen, I was aiming at myself. He grabbed the gun away from me and shot me. That's the final irony . . . Killed by a lunatic!!!”
John Barrymore in Twentieth Century
#twentiethcentury #howardhawks #benhecht #charlesmacarthur #johnbarrymore #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
#twentiethcentury #howardhawks #benhecht #charlesmacarthur #johnbarrymore #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
jackhutton · @jackhutton
280 followers · 1112 posts · Server mstdn.social“And the crowd of men and women shuffle up and down the aisles, up and down the streets outside. The holidays bring them all an identical gift. The holidays bring them the gift of memory.”
“Christmas Thoughts” by Ben Hecht, 1921 from American Christmas Stories edited by Connie Willis
#americanchristmasstories #benhecht #1920s #christmasstories
#christmasstories #1920s #benhecht #americanchristmasstories
jackhutton · @jackhutton
280 followers · 1112 posts · Server mstdn.social“We once lived in a world of toys. In a world of adventure. In a world of strange thoughts and weird imaginings. Adventure, thoughts and imaginings were toys like these. Yes, these toys have souls because we remember that they meant something, were something. What is it they meant or were? But we’ve forgotten that—almost.”…
#benhecht #americanchristmsstories
#americanchristmsstories #benhecht
jackhutton · @jackhutton
280 followers · 1112 posts · Server mstdn.social
What an amazing writer, what an amazing life —Ben Hecht
(here in 1945), Born February 28, 1894, New York City,
Died April 18, 1964 (aged 70)
Occupation Screenwriter, director, producer,novelist, playwright, journalist
Style Comedy, newspapers, gangster
Spouse(s) Marie Armstrong (m. 1915; divorced), Rose Caylor (m. 1926)
#twentiethcentury #screenwriter #newspaperman #chicago #losangeles #americanhistory #palestine #israel #benhecht #holocaust
#holocaust #benhecht #Israel #Palestine #americanhistory #losangeles #Chicago #newspaperman #screenwriter #twentiethcentury
Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
2 followers · 4 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“ Hildy, I was in love once — with my third wife.”
Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)
#thefrontpage #lewismilestone #benhecht #charlesmacarthur #charleslederer #adolphemenjou #thefrontpage1931 #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday
#thefrontpage #lewismilestone #benhecht #charlesmacarthur #charleslederer #adolphemenjou #thefrontpage1931 #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday