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Ladies and Gentlemen is a play by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht. The courtroom drama inspired by a Hungarian play Twelve in a Box by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete centers on the relationship that develops between two sequestered jurors Miss Scott and Mr. Campbell during a lengthy murder trial.The play premiered in Santa Barbara then ran for two weeks each in San Francisco and Los Angeles with Helen Hayes and Herbert Marshall in the lead roles.