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Ben Hecht papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract

Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).

Dates: 1879-1983

Kenneth Sawyer Goodman papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman
Abstract

Works and personal materials of Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, including manuscript, typescript, and published plays, poems, and short stories, correspondence, drawings, diaries, and programs from theatrical productions, photographs, and mementoes, including wood printing blocks, military items, and scrapbooks.

Dates: 1883-1971; Majority of material found within 1900-1917

Robert A. Signer - Ben Hecht research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Signer
Abstract

Materials collected by Robert A. Signer during research for an unfinished biography on Ben Hecht during the 1980s. Includes many reproductions of book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and legal documents. Also contains manuscript drafts of Signer’s biography, correspondence, transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews by Signer.

Dates: 1970s-2006; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1996

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  • Names: Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 X
  • Subject: Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century X

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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Palestine 2
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German 1
 
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Caylor, Rose 2
Wallace, Mike, 1918-2012 2
Anderson, Margaret C. 1
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 1
Antheil, George, 1900-1959 1