Hecht collection, [ca. 1915-ca. 1970].

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Hecht collection, [ca. 1915-ca. 1970].

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Collection includes all of the author's first editions (several signed or inscribed), many British and first paperback editions, as well as a selection of reprints. Special attention is paid to variants. Also included are mimeographed copies of five of his screenplays, and Hecht's agent's typescript of the novella "The Pink Hussar". Several items have been added, including the typescript for Marilyn Monroe's "My Story", for which Hecht was the ghostwriter.

ca. 200 items.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964

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The Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe was a Jewish activist group led by Peter H. Bergson and Ben Hecht, among others; founded in 1943, the group publicized the extermination of the Jewish people ongoing under Nazi reign in Europe and pressured the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt to take measures to save Jewish refugees. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943, 1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldC...