 "Napoleon Of Broadway", the play on which Ben Hecht (qv) and  Charles MacArthur (qv) based their screenplay, was based on  playwright Charles Bruce Millholland (qv)s experiences working  for the legendary eccentric theater producer  David Belasco (I) (qv). Although Milhollands play was unproduced,  Hecht and MacArthurs play opened in New York on 29 December 1932  and had 152 performances. In the cast were Etienne Girardot (qv)  (who re