In late November 1932 Hecht became involved in a series of Mae West projects, which all eventually culminated into a single picture. Earlier that year Paramount had signed Mae West to a contract and the actress was eager to step up from the lower-billed role she received in her first picture, "Night After Night". She was billed fourth, after George Raft, Constance Cummings and Wynne Gibson. West was working to adapt her notoriously banned play, "Diamond Lil", into a film, initially titled "Honky Tonk". But the censors objected and Paramount worked quickly to change a few scenes, re-title the film to "Diamond Lil" and tried again to get it into production. The censors objected again, Paramount went back to work and, hoping to fool the censors into thinking they were submitting an all-new film, re-titled the project "Ruby Red". But the censors found far too many similarities between "Ruby Red" and "Diamond Lil" and blocked the production completely. West and Paramount decided to merge "Ruby Red" into another West film in the writing stages, "She Done Him Wrong", using the cast and crew already hired for "Ruby Red". This final version of the script made it into production. Producer LeBaron, who had left RKO to work for Paramount, hired Hecht to work on "She Done Him Wrong" back when it was still a separate entity from "Ruby Red". Hecht was also hired for dance routines on "Ruby Red". Ultimately, all of Hecht's material was merged into a single film and used on "She Done Him Wrong". The film was directed by Lowell Sherman and starred West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore and Noah Beery. Hecht was interviewed by Motion Picture Magazine in 1933, in response to Mae West's media comments regarding "curvy women being the new trend", to which he answered in her favor; "Dangerous curves are not only ahead, but actually with us. Present-day chorus girls must be slightly more round and more curved than those of a few years ago. Girls with thin, boyish figures definitely are out."