 A large number of writers were hired at one time or another to write  the script, including Bert Kalmar (qv), Harry Ruby (qv),  George Jessel (qv), Harry W. Conn (qv),  Alan Campbell (I) (qv), Anita Loos (qv),  John Emerson (I) (qv), Alice Duer Miller (qv) and  Dorothy Parker (qv). Samuel Goldwyn (qv) rejected their scripts  and finally hired Ben Hecht (I) (qv) (who wrote his script in two  weeks) for the final version. It is not known if any of the earlier  work was used in Hechts version.