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FRANCES GOODRICH AND ALBERT HACKETT
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 Frances Goodrich (1890-1984) and Albert Hackett (1900-1995) were a husband-and-wife writing team for stage and film. They received the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for their stage adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, and a Writers Guild of America Award for its 1959 film version. The Hacketts came to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the Devil for Paramount Pictures. In 1933 they signed a contract with MGM and remained with them until 1939. Among their earliest assignments was writing the screenplay for The Thin Man (1934). They were encouraged by the director W. S. Van Dyke to use the writing of Dashiell Hammett as a basis only, and to concentrate on providing witty exchanges for the principal characters, Nick and Nora Charles (played by William Powell and Myrna Loy). They received Academy Award for Screenplay nominations for The Thin Man, After the Thin Man (1936), Father of the Bride (1950) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1955). They also won Writers Guild of America awards for Easter Parade (1949), Father’s Little Dividend (1951) and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), as well as nominations for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Father of the Bride (1950) and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). Some of their other films include: Another Thin Man (1939) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). |
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