Albert Hackett
Albert Maurice Hackett ( born February 16, 1900 in New York City, New York, USA, † March 16, 1995 ) was an American screenwriter and playwright, and silent film actor.
Biography
Hackett, who was born in Manhattan, was the eldest of two sons of the stage actress Florence Hackett and Maurice Hackett. His younger brother by two years later was to become silent film actor Raymond Hackett. The father of two, however, died in 1905, when Albert five, Raymond was only three years old.
Hackett, confirmed by his mother, attended from the age of six, the New York 's Professional Children 's School, and was present as early as 1912 in some silent films as a supporting actor. Until he was 22 he stood in front of the camera until he decided to write plays and screenplays.
However, his first designs were hardly successful, until he got to the end of the 1920s who know and love also active as a writer Frances Goodrich. Both were married on 7 February 1931. Was it for the ten years older than Goodrich 's third marriage, so for the first Hackett. Together they went to Los Angeles to succeed in Hollywood.
For Albert and Frances Goodrich, a 30 -year-long partnership began in Professional. Both wrote screenplays together, both of which were nominated four times for the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award.
Their dramatization of the diary of Anne Frank for the stage (1959 filmed ) was known. Hackett and his wife were awarded both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
After her last film, the film drama Five Finger Exercises produced in 1962, Albert and Frances moved back to their private lives. After his wife's death, on 29 January 1984 married Albert Hackett 1985, the Swedish born Gisella Svetlik. With her he remained married until his death.
Filmography
Awards
- 4 Oscar nominations 1935: The Thin Man ( The Thin Man)
- 1937: After the Thin Man
- 1951: Father of the Bride ( Father of the Bride )
- 1955: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)