Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett (1900-1995) made his New York stage debut as an actor as a little girl in Lottie, the Poor Saleslady in 1906. He appeared in productions of Peter Pan, Crime, Whoopee and The Nervous Wreck.
With Frances Goodrich, whom he married in 1931, he wrote the plays Bridal Wise, Up Pops the Devil, The Great Big Doorstep and The Diary of Anne Frank, for which they received a Tony Award, NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.The Diary of Anne Frank was used as the basis for the musical Yours, Anne.
The team also wrote the screenplays for the first three films of the series The Thin Man, along with Naughty Marietta, Ah, Wilderness, Rose Marie, It's a Wonderful Life, Easter Parade, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Pirate, In the Good Old Summertime, Father of the Bride, Father's Little Dividend and The Diary of Anne Frank.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (One-Act Version)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Diary of Anne Frank (One-Act Version)
Wendy Kesselman , Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
This 75-minute version of Wendy Kesselman's adaptation of Goodrich and Hackett's classic play interweaves survivor accounts and newly discovered writings from Anne Frank’s diary to create a contemporary, impassioned story of those persecuted under Nazi rule.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Diary of Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
Few more poignant true stories emerged from World War II than the diary of young Anne Frank. Published long afterwards by her father, the only family survivor, it records the minutiae of twenty-five months that two Jewish families spent in hiding from the Gestapo in an Amsterdam warehouse attic.
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The Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Play, DramaThe Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett , Wendy Kesselman
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
In Wendy Kesselman's gripping new adaptation of the original stage play by Goodrich and Hackett, survivor accounts and newly discovered writings from the diary of Anne Frank are interwoven to create a contemporary, impassioned story of those persecuted under Nazi rule. This is an adaptation for a new generation able to confront the true horrors of the Holocaust.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Full-Length Play, Drama
The Diary of Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
The Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Play, Drama
The Diary of Anne Frank (Adaptation by Wendy Kesselman)
Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett , Wendy Kesselman
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 5m
