Frances Goodrich

Frances Goodrich Hackett ( born December 21, 1890 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA, † January 29, 1984 in New York City, New York, United States) was an American screenwriter and playwright, and theater actress.

Life

Frances Goodrich began her career in 1916, first as an actress on Broadway, but was hardly successful. Similarly, initially seemed to run her private life.

They married on May 3, 1917 movie actor Robert Ames, from whom she divorced in 1923. On October 11, 1927, she performed with the native Dutch writer Hendrik Willem van Loon down the aisle. After only two years of marriage took place in 1929 divorce. First, Goodrich did not marry again until she screenwriter Albert Hackett met in the late 1920s. Although Hackett was younger than Goodrich ten years both were married on 7 February 1931.

With Hackett as a partner Goodrich began working for MGM. Goodrich was offered a film project that Hackett is involved as a co -author, and vice versa. They worked together on each film, and have been nominated four times in the course of time together for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. A gold statue remained the two but always denied.

Also, both written stage and theater pieces. So they adapted the diary of Anne Frank in the performance brought to Broadway theater play, which was adapted into the still well-known movie of 1959. Her work has been honored with both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

1962 both wrote with Five Finger Exercise her last film, and retreated then into private life. Frances Goodrich fell ill with lung cancer, where it in 1984, at the age of 93 years, died. Her 33 years -long marriage with Hackett remained childless.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

• 4 Oscar nominations 1935: The Thin Man ( The Thin Man)
• 1937: The Thin Man, Case 2 ( After the Thin Man)
• 1951: Father of the Bride ( Father of the Bride )
• 1955: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)