Hecht is said to have worked on the Edmond Goulding film "Hollywood Party" (at the time known under the title "Star Spangled Banquet") at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in March 1934, though no official credit has surfaced to confirm this. In the fall of 1934 Hecht started working on a series of shorts, which he was to direct, under the title "Goonies". The shorts were to be based on errors made by college students in filing out official forms, hence making them "goonies". Hecht's new production unit, formed for the purpose of making these shorts in December 1934, was called Goonies Inc. However, the "Goonies" shorts were never produced, for reasons unknown.