Hecht also worked uncredited on numerous classic scripts including "Back Street" (1932), "Topaze", "Queen Christina" (both 1933), "The Hurricane" (1937), "Gone With the Wind" (1939), "Foreign Correspondent", "The Shop Around the Corner" (both 1940), "Gilda" (1946), and "Roman Holiday" (1953) and directed a number of films, none of which were particularly successful. In the late 1940s, due to his outspoken criticism of English policy in Palestine, his name was removed from any of his films shown in British theaters.