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Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich met at Elitch Theatre in 1928 when they were both in the summer stock cast. Goodrich and Hackett remained married until her death. Goodrich was Jewish. Muckraking writer Henry Demarest Lloyd was Goodrich's uncle. References
GOODRICH, FRANCES (1890–1984) and HACKETT, AL-BERT (1900–1995), U.S. writers. Born in Belleville, New Jersey, Goodrich attended Passaic High School. She graduated from Vassar College in 1912, and then spent a year at the New York School of Social Work. She first appeared on stage in Massachusetts in 1913, and her first Broadway show was ...
But as a depiction of a Jewish family in a life-and-death situation, the adaptation by non-Jewish playwrights Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett projects a generalized portrait of Jews, with many of the diary’s most significant Jewish themes deleted.
- Joel Shatzky
Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 – January 29, 1984) was an American actress, dramatist, and screenwriter, best known for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with her husband in 1956 for The Diary of Anne Frank which had premiered the previous year.
What once was seen, in the words of Walter Kerr writing for the New York Times in 1979, as a “10-scene structure that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett so carefully, so persuasively, constructed out of the unfinished memoir left by a Jewish girl in a Dutch loft,” became, in the words of Markland Taylor writing for Variety, more “a ...
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett's play The Diary of Anne Frank, an adaptation of the famous diary, was first produced on Broadway in 1955 and won the Pulitzer Prize. Goodrich and Hackett, a husband-and-wife MGM screenwriting team, had earlier smash hits such as Father of the Bride and It's a Wonderful Life.
The play is a dramatization by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, and opened at the Cort Theatre on Broadway on October 5, 1955. The play was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and directed by Garson Kanin, with scenic design by Boris Aronson and lighting design by Lee Watson.
