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The Front Page, Farce, and American Comedy

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The success of The Front Page (1928) made Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, both former newspapermen, famous as dramatic collaborators. Together they also wrote Twentieth Century (1932), a farcical comedy about flamboyant movie people, and other plays, as well as a number of screenplays for such popular films as Gunga Din (1939) and Wuthering Heights (1939). Later, they briefly became writer-directors, with one of their pictures, The Scoundrel (1935, from Hecht’s play All He Ever Loved), winning an Oscar for each of them.

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Cardullo, R.J. (2015). The Front Page, Farce, and American Comedy. In: A Play Analysis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-280-6_10

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