• Ernest Hecht OBE (21 September 1929 – 13 February 2018) was a British publisher, producer, and philanthropist. In 1951, he founded Souvenir Press Ltd,...
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  • Modesty Blaise and had provided a proposal for a film script, approached Ernest Hecht, publisher of Souvenir Press, with the idea to write a novel different...
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  • player Michael Hecht, German soccer player Raymond Hecht, German javelin-thrower Ernest Hecht (1929–2018), British publisher Lotte Irene Hecht (1919-1983)...
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    Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist...
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  • and author, Chief Inspector of Constabulary (1983–1987). 13 February Ernest Hecht, 88, Czechoslovakian-born British publisher. 14 February Angus Black...
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    frequent co-star Kirk Douglas. During the 1950s, his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was highly successful, with Lancaster acting in films such...
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    Sweet Smell of Success (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    released from his commitment. Harold Hecht refused and asked him to start work on another project – adapting Ernest Lehman’s novellette Sweet Smell of Success...
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    Vera Cruz (film) (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    begin to have second thoughts about their allegiances. It was produced by Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists on 25 December 1954...
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  • that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson." At the request of publisher Ernest Hecht, O'Donnell began writing gothic romance and adventure novels under the...
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  • Harold Adolphe Hecht (June 1, 1907 – May 26, 1985) was an American film producer, dance director and talent agent. He was also, though less noted for...
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  • David Attenborough 2003 – Alan Bennett 2002 – Mark Barty-King 2001 – Ernest Hecht 2000 – Spike Milligan 1999 – Maeve Binchy 1998 – Jilly Cooper 1997 –...
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  • European émigrés who became British publishers include André Deutsch, Ernest Hecht and George Weidenfeld. Tim Rix, "Hamlyn, Paul Bertrand Wolfgang, Baron...
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    the Magazine with articles on Donyale Luna and the Houston Astrodome. Ernest Hecht of Souvenir Press commissioned a “fashion novel”, preferably centred...
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  • baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles). Ernest Hecht, 88, Czechoslovakian-born British publisher. Henrik, Prince Consort of...
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    Marty (film) (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    Harold Hecht and Burt Lancaster, the film's producers, demanded Steiger sign a multiple-picture commitment as a condition of retaining his role. Ernest Borgnine...
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  • 1922) Françoise Xenakis, French writer, 87 (born 1930) February 13 – Ernest Hecht OBE, Czechoslovak-born English publisher and founder of Souvenir Press...
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  • first came into publishing, there was André Deutsch, Fredric Warburg, Ernest Hecht, Manya Harari, George Weidenfeld – a generation of multilingual people...
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  • and author, Chief Inspector of Constabulary (1983–1987). 13 February Ernest Hecht, 88, Czechoslovakian-born British publisher. 14 February Al Garner, 88...
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  • 25 April 1983. The firm she founded still exists as Rosica Colin Ltd. Ernest Hecht, "Rosica Colin", The Times, 19 May 1983, p. 14. Diana Pullein-Thompson...
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  • services to Education, Criminal Justice and charity in Hertfordshire. Ernest Hecht – managing director, Souvenir Press Ltd. For services to Publishing and...
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    The Flame and the Arrow (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    produced by Harold Hecht and Frank Ross from a screenplay by Waldo Salt. The music score was by Max Steiner and the cinematography by Ernest Haller. During...
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  • A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
    The screenplay by Ben Hecht, based in part on a 1930 play by Laurence Stallings, was the second feature film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical...
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    Apache (film) (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    star in a film based on the novel, to be produced by himself and Harold Hecht. Lancaster had previously played an American Indian in Jim Thorpe – All-American...
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  • The Kentuckian (1955 film) (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    Wind and Steamboat Round the Bend. As part of the publicity, the producer, Hecht, and Lancaster, commissioned Thomas Hart Benton to create the painting The...
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  • Nothing Sacred (film) (category Films with screenplays by Ben Hecht)
    a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on the 1937 story "Letter to the...
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  • Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959 film) (category Films produced by Harold Hecht)
    purchased by Hecht Hill Lancaster (HHL) in July 1957 for a reported US$300,000 (or £134,000). The play had reportedly been recommended to Harold Hecht of HHL...
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  • Sloan Ming-Na Wen as Trudy Sloan Ernest Borgnine as Manny Cordoba Mark Moses as Matt Parker (season 1) Jessica Hecht as Janeane Percy-Parker (season 1)...
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    wife. The screenplay was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. This was the second time the play had been adapted...
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  • Area served Worldwide Key people Christopher Taber (CEO) Ernest Dorazio III (COO) Marshall Hecht (Senior Engineer) Kevin Horton (Director of FPGA Development)...
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  • person at this time" in the South African network. She began working for Ernest Hecht's Souvenir Press in 1975, and in 1981 moved to the Women's Press (co-founded...
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