I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

It's a comedy about a Broadway producer who was losing his leading lady to the seductive Hollywood film industry and will do anything to win her back. He could tear through things and he tore through life.

Film historian Richard Corliss called him "the" Hollywood screenwriter someone who "personified Hollywood itself. Of his seventy to ninety screenplays he wrote many anonymously to avoid the British boycott of his work in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Ben Hecht.