TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1914-1979
Series 3: Outgoing Correspondence, 1931-1977
Series 4: Family Correspondence, 1915-1976
Series 5: Subject Files, 1919-1981
Series 6: Publicity, 1920-1979
Series 7: Legal / Financial Files, 1929-1979
Series 8: Jenny Hecht Materials, 1943-1973
Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1920-1954
Series 10: Photographs, 1879-1977 (bulk 1893-1977)
Series 11: Audio and Moving Images, 1937-1970
Series 12: Miscellaneous, 1885-1974
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Inventory of the Ben Hecht Papers, 1879-1983
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Alison Hinderliter, 2003. ©2003. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Hecht, Ben, 1893-1964 |
| Title | Ben Hecht Papers |
| Dates | 1879-1983 |
| Extent | 94 cubic ft. (144 boxes and 19 oversize boxes) |
| 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). |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Hecht |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 39 1-3; 3a 40 1-4 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Ben Hecht Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Behest of Rose Caylor Hecht, 1979.
Processed by
Molly Green, 1980; Martha Briggs, Alison Hinderliter, Pamela Olson, and Monica Petraglia, 2003.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The Ben Hecht Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 5 folders at a time maximum (Priority II).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Ben Hecht Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Ben Hecht
Chicago and New York journalist, novelist, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter.
Ben Hecht was born on Feb. 28, 1893, in New York City, to Russian immigrants. His family moved soon after to Racine, Wisconsin, where Hecht went to school, read voraciously, learned to play violin, and joined a touring circus as an acrobat for a short time. In June of 1910, he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, decided after three days that it wasn't for him, and left for Chicago. It was there he met up with his uncle, who introduced him to the publisher of the Chicago Daily Journal, for whom he wrote a poem and was hired immediately as a "picture chaser" (whose job it was to remove photographs from peoples' homes to be later published with scandalous articles of those individuals). In Chicago Hecht became one of the youngest participants in the celebrated Chicago renaissance of literature, befriending other luminaries such as author Sherwood Anderson, poets Carl Sandburg and Maxwell Bodenheim, author and critic H.L. Mencken, and Little Review editor Margaret Anderson.
In 1914, Hecht left the Chicago Daily Journal to work for the Chicago Daily News, and he married Marie Armstrong the next year. He worked for the Daily News for 9 years; in 1918 the newspaper sent him to Berlin for a year to be a post-World War I foreign correspondent, and when he returned he penned the columns entitled "1001 Afternoons in Chicago" for the paper. He was fired from the paper in 1923, due to the scandal he created in writing obscene literature (as his novel Fantazius Mallare was deemed by the U.S. Postal Service). After being let go from the paper, Hecht decided to write a paper of his own, and the short-lived Chicago Literary Times was born. For personal and financial reasons, the paper only lasted just over a year, and in 1924 Hecht left Chicago with Rose Caylor, to live in New York City; Rose became his wife after his divorce from Marie Armstrong Hecht in 1925. In New York Hecht collaborated with his friend, former Chicago Tribune reporter Charles MacArthur. The two had a fruitful partnership, the most famous product of which is the play The Front Page, completed in 1928.
On the encouragement of his friend Herman J. "Mank" Mankiewicz (screenwriter for the movie Citizen Kane), Hecht went to Hollywood and embarked on his next career as a movie screenwriter. In fact, he was the first screenwriter to ever receive an Oscar for original screenplay - the movie Underworld, in 1929. The number of screenplays he wrote or worked on that are now considered classics is astounding: Scarface (1930), A Star is Born (1937), The Goldwyn Follies (1938), Stagecoach, Some Like It Hot, and Gone With the Wind (all 1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Spellbound (1945), Notorious (1946), Rope (1948), Love Happy (1949), The Thing and Strangers on a Train (both 1951), Roman Holiday (1953), The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), A Farewell to Arms (1957), Walk on the Wild Side and Mutiny on the Bounty (both 1962), and Casino Royale (posthumously, in 1967). It is estimated that he wrote from seventy to ninety screenplays, many anonymously during the British boycott of his work in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
The boycott was a response to Hecht's active support of the radical Zionist movement in Palestine. Through his efforts to raise money for the beleaguered Jews of Europe, he won the friendship of Irgun tseva'i le'umi (Irgun Zvai Leumi) founders Menachem Begin, Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook), and others. A supply ship for Palestine was renamed the S.S. Ben Hecht, and millions of dollars earned by the proceeds of such pageants penned by Hecht as We Will Never Die(1943) and A Flag is Born (1946) helped to pay for it and its contents.
Hecht died of a heart attack in New York City on April 19, 1964, leaving behind a wife (Rose), two daughters (Edwina "Teddy" Hecht, from his first marriage, and Jenny Hecht, from his second), and many grieving friends and admirers. He also left behind a vast output of plays, novels, essays, more than three hundred short stories, innumerable newspaper articles, and a highly entertaining autobiography, A Child of the Century.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, works, subject files, personal papers, photographs, scrapbooks, sound recordings, film, video, artifacts, and miscellaneous ephemera documenting the life and literary output of Ben Hecht, his wife Rose, and his daughter Jenny. Hecht's wife Rose, a one-time actress and a novelist in her own right, was in integral part of Ben's career and life. Many of his works and letters include editions and annotations by Rose, and much of his fan mail and most of his financial and legal dealings were handled by her as well. Because of this inextricable connection, many series in the collection contain both Ben's and Rose's materials, identified and separated where possible. Series where Ben's and Rose's papers are filed together are Works, Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence, Subject Files, Publicity, Legal / Financial Files, Audio and Moving Images, Miscellaneous, and Art and Artifacts. Family Correspondence and Photographs involve all members of Hecht's immediate family and in-laws.
Jenny Hecht's materials, for the most part (except for the aforementioned Family Correspondence and Photographs), are in their own series since she had her own acting career separate from her father's career (although she did act in several of Ben Hecht's plays and movies, such as Concerning a Woman of Sin and Simone). The scrapbooks she kept are with her materials, since they consist of collections of her memorabilia or her artwork. Ben Hecht's scrapbooks are reviews and publicity about his books and plays.
This collection is also rich in artifacts and non-textual items that document the life of the Hecht family. From home movies and sound recordings of plays and interviews to press passes, I.D. cards, recipe books, pipes, reading glasses, writing desks, and an Academy Award, the collection provides a three-dimensional glimpse into the life of a man and a family very active in the literary, political, and popular circles of Chicago, New York, and Hollywood in the first half of the twentieth century.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Works, 1908-1983. Box(es) 1 - 54
- Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1914-1979. Box(es) 55 - 65
- Series 3: Outgoing Correspondence, 1931-1977. Box(es) 66 - 70
- Series 4: Family Correspondence, 1915-1976. Box(es) 71-76
- Series 5: Subject Files, 1919-1981. Box(es) 77
- Series 6: Publicity, 1920-1979. Box(es) 78-80
- Series 7: Legal / Financial Files, 1929-1979. Box(es) 81-91
- Series 8: Jenny Hecht Materials, 1943-1973. Box(es) 92-102
- Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1920-1954. Box(es) 103-106
- Series 10: Photographs, 1879-1977 . Box(es) 107-114
- Series 11: Audio and Moving Images, 1937-1970. Box(es) 115-131
- Series 12: Miscellaneous, 1885-1974. Box(es) 132-134
- Series 13: Art and Artifacts, 1899-1963. Box(es) 135---
- Series 14: Rose Hecht Notes and Annotations, [n.d.]. Box(es) 141-163
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Anderson, Margaret C.
- Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941
- Antheil, George, 1900-1959
- Begin, Menachem, 1913-
- Bodenheim, Maxwell, 1893-1954
- Brent, Stuart
- Caylor, Rose
- Chicago Daily Journal.
- Chicago Daily News, Inc.
- Doubleday and Company, inc.
- Essipoff, Marie Armstrong, 1892-
- Fowler, Gene, 1890-1960
- Hart, Moss, 1904-1961
- Hecht Family
- Irgun tseva'i le'umi
- Jessel, George, 1898-1981
- Kogan, Herman
- Kook, Hillel, 1915-
- Kroch, Adolph, b. 1882
- Lenya, Lotte
- MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956
- Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953
- Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
- Simon and Schuster, inc.
- Wallace, Mike, 1918-
- Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950
Subjects
- Artifacts
- Authors, American--20th century
- Chicago (Ill.)--Intellectual life--20th century
- Clippings
- Dramatists, American
- Manuscripts, American
- Moving images
- Novelists, American--Illinois--Chicago
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Screenplays
- Screenwriters, American
- Sound recordings
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Palestine
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Aftermath--Germany--Berlin
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Container List
Series 1: Works, 1908-1983 |
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| Originals (mostly typescript), photocopies, printed, and reprinted versions of the literary output of Ben Hecht, Rose Hecht, and other writers who either collaborated with Ben Hecht or offered their writings to him for his consideration or amusement. This series includes novels, articles, essays, speeches, notes, scripts, poems, sketches, epigrams, and revisions. Untitled prose and poetry are identified with the first line of the piece. Unidentified materials are manuscript scraps and fragments, or items missing title pages. A few other writers wrote essays, articles, and eulogies about Ben Hecht; these works are included in the last section of the series. | |||||||||||
| Organized into three sections: Works by Ben Hecht, Works by Rose Hecht, and Works by Other Writers. Arranged alphabetically by title therein. Two boxes of oversize works are at the end of the series. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | a | 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, (newspaper articles), see also oversize Box 53, 1921 | |||||||||
| 1 | b | 1001 Afternoons in New York, (newspaper article), see also oversize Box 53, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1001 Nights in New York, 1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Actor's Blood, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Actress, The, 1961(?) | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Adultery Dance, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | All Day He Fell, 1955-1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | All Day He Fell, Elvina, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Annie-Pierce-of-Sky, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 8-11 | Aphrodite, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Ballad of the Doomed Jews of Europe, 1943 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Ballerina, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Bandit, The, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14a | Before I Die, two copies, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Ben Hecht Doffs His Coat, Puts on an Old Harness, see oversize Box 53, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Ben Hecht Show, 1958 | |||||||||
| 2 | 17-116 | Berlin Dispatches, 1919 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | Billy Mitchell Story, The, 1948 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Birth of a Soul n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Black Umbrellas, 1919 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Bodenheim, notes on, c. 1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Bomb Thrower, The, 1922 | |||||||||
| 2 | 122 | Bosoms Away, 1957 | |||||||||
| 3 | 123-125 | Bring Me Joe Feeney, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 126 | Broadway's Largest Ego [Jed Harris], n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 127 | Bum, The, 1963 | |||||||||
| 3 | 128 | CBS Television script, untitled, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 129 | Captain Kidd, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 130 | Casey, (preface to Bob Casey book), n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 131-136 | Casino Royale, 1967 | |||||||||
| 3 | 137 | Cat that Jumped out of the Story, The, 1947 | |||||||||
| 3 | 138 | Champion in Chains, A, 1942 | |||||||||
| 4 | 139-148 | Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur, 1957 | |||||||||
| 4 | 149 | Chicago, 1964 | |||||||||
| 4 | 150 | Chicago, The New Lyrics Ben Started for Chicago, Songs, ca. 1964 | |||||||||
| 4 | 151 | Chicago, Three Songs for O'Bannion, 1964 | |||||||||
| 4 | 152 | Chicago Days, 1959 | |||||||||
| 5 | 153 | Child as a Teacher, A, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 154-196 | Child of the Century, A, see also oversize Box 53, 1954 | |||||||||
| 6 | 197-213 | Child of the Century, A, see also oversize Box 53, | |||||||||
| 7 | 214 | Clara, 1962 | |||||||||
| 7 | 215 | Club 118, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 216-225 | Cohen, Mickey, MS draft, 1958-1959 | |||||||||
| 7 | 226-227 | Cohen, Mickey, Notes On, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 228-229 | Cohen, Mickey, Research Notes on Crime and People, 1958-59 | |||||||||
| 7 | 230 | Cohen, Mickey, The Incomplete Life of Mickey Cohen, as published in Scanlon's, 1970 | |||||||||
| 7 | 230a | Collings Murder Articles, see also: oversize, 1931 | |||||||||
| 7 | 231 | Concerning a True Sickness, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 232 | Concerning a Woman of Sin, 1943 | |||||||||
| 7 | 233 | Crime Without Passion, 1942 | |||||||||
| 7 | 234 | Curtain Rises, A, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 234a | Cyrano de Bergerac, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 235 | Death, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 236 | Death and Dr. Jung, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 237 | Death Dance, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 238 | Death of Hollywood, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 238a | Design for Living (script), Jun. 14, 1933 | |||||||||
| [purchase, Society of Collectors, 2008] | |||||||||||
| 8 | 239 | Dialogues With a Wolf - The Epistles of the Lucky Husband, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 240 | Diary, 1908 | |||||||||
| 8 | 241-243 | Disenchanted Diary, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 244-246 | Don't Pick Your Money Up Till You're Finished Singing [about Fannie Brice], n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 247-252 | Dorian Tree, The, 1963 | |||||||||
| 8 | 253 | Doting Burglar, The, 1953 | |||||||||
| 9 | 254 | Double Exposure, 1949 | |||||||||
| 9 | 255-256 | Dregs, 1915 | |||||||||
| 9 | 257 | Elliott, Bertram - Forward to The Arts Club of Chicago Exhibition of Drawings, 1926 | |||||||||
| 9 | 258 | Essay on Happiness, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 259 | Evil, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 260 | Ezra Pound, Dec. 1917 | |||||||||
| 9 | 260a | Fairy Who Was Hanged, A [Playboy Magazine], Jul. 9, 1962 | |||||||||
| 9 | 261 | Famous Reporter's Death Recalls Marco Polo Tribe, (Bob Casey), see oversize Box 53, 1962 | |||||||||
| 9 | 262 | Fanny Brice, Miscellaneous incidents and reminders, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 263 | Fanny Brice Movie Treatment, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 264 | Fargo, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 265 | Fingers at the Window, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 9 | 266 | First Words on First Nights, Radio Address, Apr. 9, 1964 | |||||||||
| 9 | 267-271 | Flag is Born, A, 1946 | |||||||||
| 9 | 272 | Ford Motor Company Television Show, c. 1954-55 | |||||||||
| 9 | 272a | Foreign Correspondent (script), Aug. 30, 1930 | |||||||||
| [purchase, Society of Collectors, 2008] | |||||||||||
| 9 | 273 | Fragmentary Writing, n.d. | |||||||||
| 10 | 274-282 | Gaily, Gaily, see oversize Box 53, 1963 | |||||||||
| 10 | 283 | Gargoyles: An Analytical Sex Novel (Ben's Review), 1923 | |||||||||
| 10 | 284 | Gene Fowler, c. 1960 | |||||||||
| 10 | 285 | George Jessel, n.d. | |||||||||
| 10 | 286 | Girl Friday, n.d. | |||||||||
| 10 | 287 | Go Chicago!, 1925 | |||||||||
| 10 | 288 | Go, Scholar Gipsy!, 1941 | |||||||||
| 10 | 289 | Goldberg, Leon, Eulogy, 1962 | |||||||||
| 10 | 290 | Good Old Nyack, 1962 | |||||||||
| 10 | 290a | Great Magoo (script), n.d. | |||||||||
| [purchase, Society of Collectors, 2008] | |||||||||||
| 10 | 291-294 | Grimaces (early unpublished novel), n.d. | |||||||||
| Note: Grimaces is also available on microfilm. | |||||||||||
| 10 | 295 | Groucho Plot, 1952 | |||||||||
| 11 | 296-297 | Guide for the Bedevilled, A, 1944 | |||||||||
| 11 | 298 | Hazel Flagg, 1953 | |||||||||
| 11 | 299 | Hearts and Flowers, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 300 | Hello, Charlie, 1959 | |||||||||
| 11 | 301 | Hirshfeld, Samuel, M.D., Funeral Address delivered by Ben Hecht, 1946 | |||||||||
| 11 | 302 | Hollywood Nostalgia [Playboy Magazine], see oversize 54, 1960 | |||||||||
| 11 | 303 | Homage to Minna Emch, 1958 | |||||||||
| 11 | 304 | Honeymoon Postcard, A, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 305 | How to Enjoy Death, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 306 | I Didn't Need an Atlas, (The Front Page Then and Now), see oversize Box 54, 1961 | |||||||||
| 11 | 307 | I, Finesse or The Man Who Bid Eight Spades, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 308 | Introducing Broadway Entertainment, 1954 | |||||||||
| 11 | 309 | Italian Diary, c. 1955 | |||||||||
| 11 | 310 | It's Fun to Be Free, 1941 | |||||||||
| 11 | 311 | Jack Pot of Corpses, A [Playboy Magazine], 1961 | |||||||||
| 11 | 312 | Jenny's Birthday Play, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 313 | Jewish Situation Less Complex, (Los Angeles Times), 1943 | |||||||||
| 11 | 314-315 | Joan of Arc, 1940's-mid | |||||||||
| 11 | 316 | Jumbo, 1969 | |||||||||
| 11 | 317 | Kaufman [George], 1961 | |||||||||
| 11 | 318 | Kingdom of Evil, The, 1924 | |||||||||
| 11 | 319 | Kismet, Preface to Musical Version, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 320 | Labor Pageant, 1942 | |||||||||
| 11 | 321 | Lanza, Mario (speech), n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 322 | Last Dream, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 323 | Last Word, (Ben Hecht's contribution to Billy Rose's column, The New York Post), 1952 | |||||||||
| 11 | 324 | Lawyers (includes notes from Rose), n.d. | |||||||||
| 11 | 325 | Lentil, Introduction to, 1956 | |||||||||
| 11 | 325a | Letitia [Playboy Magazine], Oct. 10, 1962 | |||||||||
| 11 | 326-330 | Letters From Bohemia, see also oversize Box 54, 1964 | |||||||||
| 12 | 331-346a | Letters From Bohemia, see also oversize Box 54, 1964 | |||||||||
| 12 | 347 | Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine, see oversize Box 54, 1947 | |||||||||
| 12 | 348 | MacArthur, Charles, Eulogy 1956 | |||||||||
| 12 | 349 | MacArthur, Late Playwright, Lived A Thousand Stories, see oversize Box 54, 1956 | |||||||||
| 12 | 350 | McSweeney Outline, n.d. | |||||||||
| 12 | 351 | Magdalene: A Harlot From Jerusalem (or a Woman Named Mary) story outline and part of script, n.d. | |||||||||
| 12 | 352 | Maggie (in memoriam for Margaret Sullivan), (New York Post), 1960 | |||||||||
| 12 | 353 | Marcia and Jane (2nd television script), n.d. | |||||||||
| 12 | 354 | Mary Todd Lincoln, [story discussion], n.d. | |||||||||
| 12 | 355 | Mask, The, 1954 | |||||||||
| 12 | 356 | Max Band, n.d. | |||||||||
| 13 | 357 | Memories of Love, n.d. | |||||||||
| 13 | 357a | Midsummer, [Ben's rewrites for Midsummer], n.d. | |||||||||
| 13 | 358 | Miracle in the Rain, 1943 | |||||||||
| 13 | 359 | Miracle on the Pullman, 1945 | |||||||||
| 13 | 360 | Modernism, 1921-22? | |||||||||
| 13 | 361 | Most Unforgettable Character I've Ever Met, The, 1944 | |||||||||
| 13 | 362 | Mouths of the Beast, n.d. | |||||||||
| 13 | 363-365 | Movie Star, n.d. | |||||||||
| 13 | 366 | Murder in the Dressing Room, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 13 | 367-374 | My Story, (Marilyn Monroe), 1954 | |||||||||
| 13 | 375-378 | My Testament, n.d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 379-381 | My Testament - Notes, n. d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 382 | My Uncle Abraham Reports..., 1943 | |||||||||
| 14 | 383 | Mystery of the Man with the Accordion, The, 1931 | |||||||||
| 14 | 383a | Newspaper Articles, Chicago Daily Journal, 1912-1913 | |||||||||
| 14 | 383b | Newspaper Articles, Chicago Daily News, 1919 | |||||||||
| 14 | 384 | No Room for Vice [Playboy Magazine], 1959 | |||||||||
| 14 | 385 | Noble Experiment, The, 1963 | |||||||||
| 14 | 386 | Norma Nevers and the Great Adventure, n.d. | |||||||||
| 14 | 387-388 | Notebooks, n.d. | |||||||||
| 15 | 389-397 | Notebooks, | |||||||||
| 15 | 398-402 | Notes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 16 | 403-406 | Notes, | |||||||||
| 16 | 407 | On Change, n.d. | |||||||||
| 16 | 408 | On Death (again), n.d. | |||||||||
| 16 | 409 | On Love, n.d. | |||||||||
| 16 | 410 | On Sickness. . . [epigrams], n.d. | |||||||||
| 16 | 411-418 | Orpheus in the Underworld, 1953 | |||||||||
| 17 | 419-434 | Orpheus in the Underworld, | |||||||||
| 17 | 435 | Packy Hudson, n.d. | |||||||||
| 17 | 436 | Pageant of American Labor, The, - see Oversize Box 54, 1942 | |||||||||
| 17 | 437 | Parable of a Critic (dedicated to Brooks Atkinson), n.d. | |||||||||
| 17 | 438 | Paradine Case, The, 1947 | |||||||||
| 17 | 439-449 | Perfidy, 1961 | |||||||||
| 18 | 450 | Phantasmagoriophobia, 1940 | |||||||||
| 18 | 451 | Phantom Killing, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 452 | Poetry, Ah Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, or Why Yenta Had her Shoes Re-soled (by Alfred Pupick-student), n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 453 | Poetry, Allegro, Adagio, Andante, The Legacy, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 454 | Poetry, A Answer [to Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 455 | Poetry, As a brightly plumaged bird..., Apr. 1949 | |||||||||
| 18 | 456 | Poetry, Ballad of the Doomed Jews of Europe, Mar. 1943 | |||||||||
| 18 | 457 | Poetry, Ballad of 53 Years, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 458 | Poetry, Ballad of Newspaper Critics, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 459 | Poetry, Ballad of Three Graces, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 460 | Poetry, Ballad of Vanishing Editors, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 461 | Poetry, Before time turns our locks to gray..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 462 | Poetry, Black Boy, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 463 | Poetry, Bread and Butter Letter, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 464-466 | Poetry, Child of the Century [epic poem], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 467 | Poetry, City Sketches, Mother and Child, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 468 | Poetry, Class History, The, [Racine High], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 469 | Poetry, Complaint, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 470 | Poetry, Curled up in Bed..., [includes notes from Rose], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 471 | Poetry, The dark land where..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 472 | Poetry, The day we buried love..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 473 | Poetry, Death makes a circle..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 474 | Poetry, Debut [for Jenny], 1952 | |||||||||
| 18 | 475 | Poetry, Ego, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 476 | Poetry, Flowers come out of the ground... [to Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 477 | Poetry, For an Analyst, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 478 | Poetry, For Helen and Charlie's 19th Wedding Anniversary, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 479 | Poetry, For sitting in the dentist's chair... [to Jenny from tooth fairy?], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 480 | Poetry, A great white leopard..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 481 | Poetry, He Gave Her ah Swell Massage, or The Barber's Heppy Sweetheart (by Alfred Pupick-student), n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 482 | Poetry, Her skin of sun and milk..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 483 | Poetry, Here is our gay old Xmas tree..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 484 | Poetry, Here is the rhyme of a wretched year [to Marie Armstrong Hecht], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 485 | Poetry, Here was the land of..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 486 | Poetry, Hollywood 1936, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 487 | Poetry, How nice it is that time does pass..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 488 | Poetry, Humoresques, An Invitation to Cheat Posterity [published in The Little Review, Sept.], 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 489 | Poetry, Humoresques, The Diabolical Pedestrian I, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 490 | Poetry, Humoresques, The Diabolical Pedestrian II, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 491 | Poetry, Humoresques, The Doctor Operates, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 492 | Poetry, Humoresques, The Ewig Weibliche, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 493 | Poetry, Humoresques, The Man Who Walks Like a Toy, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 494 | Poetry, Humoresques, Romance, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 495 | Poetry, Humoresques, Sorrow [published in The Little Review, Sept.] 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 496 | Poetry, Humoresques, There is Something Wrong with the Race, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 497 | Poetry, Humoresques, To a Rival Imagist, 1915 | |||||||||
| 18 | 498 | Poetry, I am one in whom the emptiness..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 499 | Poetry, I have come to the cool place where..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 500 | Poetry, I have lived long enough to find..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 501 | Poetry, If I could pray I'd pray for this..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 502 | Poetry, I'm sorry for whoever doesn't like me..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 503 | Poetry, In 1913, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 504 | Poetry, [Incomplete or fragmentary], n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 505 | Poetry, Jenny doesn't know me yet..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 506 | Poetry, Jenny Duck Club, [with drawing], 1952 | |||||||||
| 18 | 507 | Poetry, Jenny Hecht is my name..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 508 | Poetry, Jenny's High School Cheer, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 509 | Poetry, Jenny's Joke, n.d. | |||||||||
| 18 | 510 | Poetry, Jenny's Long and Narrow, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 511 | Poetry, July 25, 1960, 1960? | |||||||||
| 19 | 512 | Poetry, Let's Play Cops and Robbers..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 513 | Poetry, Lindy Flies Again, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 514 | Poetry, Lost, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 515 | Poetry, Love me darling..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 516 | Poetry, March 2, 1963, 1963? | |||||||||
| 19 | 517 | Poetry, Martial's Epigrams [Translations from Latin], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 518 | Poetry, Merry Xmas to Jeannie Sims [copy], 1958 | |||||||||
| 19 | 519 | Poetry, Moon Toons [to Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 520-521 | Poetry, Mrs. Heinemann's Saturday Night, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 522 | Poetry, Much I have done..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 523 | Poetry, My heart is like a bird at rest..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 524 | Poetry, My Valentine is Jenny, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 525 | Poetry, Nativity-Schmivity, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 526 | Poetry, The negro hero stood up for his kind..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 527 | Poetry, New Years 1961, 1961 | |||||||||
| 19 | 527a | Poetry, No rubbish heap of Broken Bottles..., (To Jenny, Xmas 1962), see oversize Box 54 1962 | |||||||||
| 19 | 528 | Poetry, Nothing has changed..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 529 | Poetry, Now that she is dead..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 530 | Poetry, Oh hark to the grim disaster..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 531 | Poetry, Oh lady alert and pneumatic..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 532 | Poetry, Oh silver... [to Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 533 | Poetry, Oh this is the tale of an iconoclast... [about Mencken], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 534 | Poetry, On a Sleepless Night, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 535 | Poetry, Only Ah Mother From Children (by Alfred Pupick-Student), n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 536 | Poetry, Playwright's Morning After, A, (New York World-Telegram), 1942 | |||||||||
| 19 | 537 | Poetry, [poem on Bernie Hyman], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 538 | Poetry, [Pornographic Poems], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 539 | Poetry, Quest, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 540 | Poetry, Real Estate Note, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 541 | Poetry, Remembering the Friends who Died, Feb. 4, 1962, 1962? | |||||||||
| 19 | 542 | Poetry, The Reporter's Soliloquy, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 543 | Poetry, Rose [7 poems], 1950, 1958, 1960, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 544 | Poetry, Sketches [some published in the Little Review], 1915 | |||||||||
| 19 | 545 | Poetry, Some writer grow excited viewing..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 546 | Poetry, Song of a Palestinian, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 547 | Poetry, Songs - Wooing Song, c. 1915 | |||||||||
| 19 | 548 | Poetry, Sonnet to the Cast of Lily of the Valley, 1942 | |||||||||
| 19 | 549 | Poetry, Speak of love when love is new..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 550 | Poetry, Speakeasy Sighs [5 poems, by Alfred Pupick-Student], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 551 | Poetry, Swan Song Cast Farewell, 1946 | |||||||||
| 19 | 552 | Poetry, Thoughts of the Man on Strike, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 553 | Poetry, Time Stand Still..., 1958 | |||||||||
| 19 | 554 | Poetry, To a Phonograph Hussar, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 555 | Poetry, To a Stowaway [in anticipation of Jenny's birth], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 556 | Poetry, To Dr. Cave, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 557 | Poetry, To Jack Barrymore, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 558-559 | Poetry, To Jack [Kreindler], 1950 | |||||||||
| 19 | 560 | Poetry, To Jenny Three Days Old, (SEE: Guide for the Bedevilled - Dedication), 1943 | |||||||||
| 19 | 561 | Poetry, To Jenny from Ben - Christmas, 1943 | |||||||||
| 19 | 562 | Poetry, To Jenny, Christmas, 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 563 | Poetry, To Jenny, New Years, 1949 | |||||||||
| 19 | 564 | Poetry, To Jenny, Christmas, 1949 | |||||||||
| 19 | 565 | Poetry, To Jenny, 1950 | |||||||||
| 19 | 566 | Poetry, To Jenny at 16, 1959 | |||||||||
| 19 | 567 | Poetry, To the Phoenix Players, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 568 | Poetry, Unanswered, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 569 | Poetry, Uncle Sam Stands Up, Dec. 18, 1941 | |||||||||
| 19 | 570 | Poetry, Under the White Umbrella, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 571 | Poetry, The way a tree buds, [for Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 572 | Poetry, The Weary Author, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 573 | Poetry, What do I ask of women..., [copy from book inscription], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 574 | Poetry, What is your name little girl?... [to Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 575 | Poetry, What'll you have?..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 576 | Poetry, When all the marching was through..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 577 | Poetry, When I'm dead..., 1949 | |||||||||
| 19 | 578 | Poetry, When I was ill..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 579 | Poetry, When I was young..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 580 | Poetry, When you're playing in the hinterlands... [to Jenny], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 581 | Poetry, Whether a serpent with a fiery tail..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 582 | Poetry, Who gives a hoot in hell..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 583 | Poetry, Who Will Protect de Woiking Goil [by Alfred Pupick-Student], n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 584 | Poetry, Why Abie Eloped with an Irish Rose, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 585 | Poetry, Writing is my pleasure, 1960 | |||||||||
| 19 | 586 | Poetry, The year is 1934..., n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 587 | Pontius Pilot, n.d. | |||||||||
| 19 | 588 | Praying Mantis, The (2 copies), ca. 1964 | |||||||||
| 19 | 588a | Prohibition Era, The [Playboy Magazine], 1963 | |||||||||
| 19 | 588b | Queen Dido [Playboy Magazine], 1962 | |||||||||
| 19 | 589 | Queen of Outer Space, (formerly Queen of the Universe), 1958 | |||||||||
| 19 | 590-591 | Remember Us, 1943 | |||||||||
| 20 | 592 | Rendezvous of Love, 1945 | |||||||||
| 20 | 593 | Requiem for Three, 1965 | |||||||||
| 20 | 593a | Rival Dummy, The [Ellery Queen's Magazine], 1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 594 | Romeo and Juliet, 1952 | |||||||||
| 20 | 595 | Sadness of Odette, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 20 | 596 | Scarecrows, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 20 | 597 | Scoundrel, The, 1935 | |||||||||
| 20 | 598 | Shadow, The, 1926 | |||||||||
| 20 | 599 | Shedding Light, n.d. | |||||||||
| 20 | 600-607 | Shylock, My Brother, 1964 | |||||||||
| 21 | 608-619 | Shylock, My Brother, 1964 | |||||||||
| 22 | 620-628 | Shylock, My Brother, 1964 | |||||||||
| 23 | 629-635 | Shylock, My Brother, 1964 | |||||||||
| 24 | 636-642 | Shylock, My Brother, 1964 | |||||||||
| 24 | 643 | Sic Transit, 1954 | |||||||||
| 24 | 644 | Silent Heart, n.d. | |||||||||
| 25 | 645-656 | Simone, ca. 1962 | |||||||||
| 26 | 657-666 | Simone, ca. 1962 | |||||||||
| 27 | 667-675 | Simone, ca. 1962 | |||||||||
| 27 | 675a | Snowfall in Childhood, (1983 reprint of 1934 article from Esquire), see oversize Box 54, 1983 | |||||||||
| 27 | 676 | Snowstorm Reverie, 1942 | |||||||||
| 27 | 677 | Solitaire, The, n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 678 | Some Trouble with the Caveman, n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 679 | Specter of the Rose [Diner's Club Magazine], 1962 | |||||||||
| 27 | 680 | Speeches: [about early days in Chicago], n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 681 | Speeches: [begins, I'm no talker...], n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 682 | Speeches: [begins, I've been told... autobiographical], n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 683 | Speeches: [delivered at Slapsie Maxie's - financed by Mickey Cohen], ca. 1943 | |||||||||
| 27 | 684 | Speeches: [Irgun related, similar to that delivered at Slapsie Maxie's], n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 685 | Speeches: [It's Not Just the City - The World Has Changed, see oversize Box 54, 1963 | |||||||||
| 27 | 686 | Speeches: [made at Newsday], Apr. 15, 1964 | |||||||||
| 27 | 687 | Speeches: [Menachem Begin Welcome], n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 688 | Speeches: [Palestinian Jews], n.d. | |||||||||
| 27 | 689 | Speeches: [To Crew of Ben Hecht], 1947 | |||||||||
| 28 | 690 | Spy Plane Incident, The, May 13, 1960 | |||||||||
| 28 | 691 | Student and the Beggar, 1942 | |||||||||
| 28 | 692 | Sunset Kid, The, (reprint of Swindler's Luck), 1964 | |||||||||
| 28 | 693 | Tales of the City, 1953 | |||||||||
| 28 | 694 | Testament, n.d. | |||||||||
| 28 | 695 | Testament of a Reporter, (unknown publication), 1941 | |||||||||
| 28 | 696 | Thank God I was Born Poor, n.d. | |||||||||
| 28 | 697 | Tired Horse, The, 1954 | |||||||||
| 28 | 698 | To Jenny, 1957 | |||||||||
| 28 | 699 | To Jenny, Nine Years Old, c. 1952 | |||||||||
| 28 | 699a | To Jimmy Durante, c. 1962-1964 | |||||||||
| 28 | 700 | To Write Truthfully About Love, n.d. | |||||||||
| 28 | 701 | Too Much Sex, n.d. | |||||||||
| 28 | 702 | Treasury of Ben Hecht, Preface, 1958 | |||||||||
| 28 | 703 | Trilby, 1948 | |||||||||
| 28 | 704-706a | Twentieth Century, 1933 | |||||||||
| 28 | 706b | Twentieth Century, New Haven Theatre production script, 1933 | |||||||||
| 28 | 706c | Twentieth Century, Broadhurst Theatre (New York) production script, 1932 | |||||||||
| 28 | 707 | Uncle Joe, n.d. | |||||||||
| 28 | 707a - 707b | Underworld, A Musical, ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 29 | 707c-731 | Underworld, A Musical Play, ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 29a | 732-735 | Underworld, A Musical Play, scripts ca. 1960 | |||||||||
| 29a | 736 | Underworld Soiree [Rogue Magazine], Jun. 1960 | |||||||||
| 29a | 737 | Unidentified, n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 738 | Unidentified [begins Act I: It is one o'clock of a Monday afternoon], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 739 | Unidentified [collaboration with Gene Fowler], 1957 | |||||||||
| 29a | 740 | Unidentified [fragment], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 741 | Unidentified [fragment], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 742 | Unidentified [fragments], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 743 | Unidentified [fragments], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 744 | Unidentified [fragment about censorship], ca. 1960's | |||||||||
| 29a | 745 | Unidentified [incomplete], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 746 | Unidentified [manuscript fragments], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 747 | Unidentified [manuscript fragments with Rose's notes in re: Shylock], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 748 | Unidentified [manuscript pages with Rose's Notes], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 749 | Unidentified [movie continuity], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 750 | [folder intentionally left blank] | |||||||||
| 29a | 751 | Unidentified [movie outline], n.d. | |||||||||
| 29a | 752 | ||||||||||