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Nikita Balieff

He appeared in the Ben Hecht - Charles MacArthur film Once in a Blue Moon (1935) with Jimmy Savo.

Carl Wanderer

The case was cracked in part by famed Chicago-based reporter and future screenwriter Ben Hecht, of the Chicago Daily News and reporter and future playwright Charles MacArthur of the Chicago Examiner.

Hubbard Street

Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's hit play "The Front Page" was set in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building on 54 West Hubbard Street.

John D. MacArthur

MacArthur's brother Charles MacArthur was an American playwright and screenwriter, best known as co-author of the play The Front Page.

Ken Ludwig

Other Broadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo (1995) with Carol Burnett and Lynn Redgrave (on Broadway) and Frank Langella and Joan Collins at the Old Vic in London, the book for a musical adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001), and a new adaptation of the classic Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play, Twentieth Century (2004) starring Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche.

Walter Howey

Howey was the prototype for Walter Burns, the scheming, ruthless managing editor, in Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page (1928).

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