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Frances Goodrich

Known For
Writing

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Gender
Female

Birthday
December 20, 1890 (135 years old)

Place of Birth
Belleville, New Jersey, USA

Frances Goodrich

Biography

Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 – January 29, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett.

Goodrich was born in Belleville, New Jersey, the daughter of Madeleine Christy (née Lloyd) and Henry Wickes Goodrich. The family moved to nearby Nutley when Goodrich was two. She married actor Robert Ames in 1917 (divorced 1923), the writer H.W. Van Loon in 1927 (divorced 1930), and Albert Hackett in 1931. Goodrich and Hackett remained married until her death.

Not long after marrying Hackett, the couple went 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). The resulting film was one of the major hits of the year, and the script, considered to show a modern relationship in a realistic manner for the first time, is considered groundbreaking.

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 won Writers Guild of America awards for Easter Parade (1949), Father's Little Dividend (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), as well as nominations for In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Father of the Bride (1950) and The Long, Long Trailer (1954). They also won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for their original play The Diary of Anne Frank. Some of their other films include: Another Thin Man (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Frances Goodrich Hackett died from lung cancer on January 29, 1984 at the age of 93, in New York City.

Known For

Writing

1995Father of the Bride Part II...Original Film Writer
1991Father of the Bride...Original Film Writer
1980The Diary of Anne Frank...Theatre Play
1980The Diary of Anne Frank...Screenplay
1967The Diary of Anne Frank...Theatre Play
1962Five Finger Exercise...Screenplay
1959The Diary of Anne Frank...Screenplay
1959The Diary of Anne Frank...Theatre Play
1958A Certain Smile...Screenplay
1956Gaby...Screenplay
1954Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...Screenplay
1954The Long, Long Trailer...Screenplay
1953Give a Girl a Break...Writer
1951Too Young to Kiss...Writer
1951Father's Little Dividend...Screenplay
1950Father of the Bride...Screenplay
1949In the Good Old Summertime...Screenplay
1948Easter Parade...Screenplay
1948Easter Parade...Original Story
1948The Pirate...Screenplay
1948Summer Holiday...Screenplay
1946It's a Wonderful Life...Screenplay
1946The Virginian...Screenplay
1944The Hitler Gang...Screenplay
1944Lady in the Dark...Screenplay
1939Another Thin Man...Writer
1939Society Lawyer...Screenplay
1938Thanks for the Memory...Theatre Play
1937The Firefly...Screenplay
1936After the Thin Man...Screenplay
1936Small Town Girl...Screenplay
1936Rose Marie...Screenplay
1935Ah, Wilderness!...Screenplay
1935Naughty Marietta...Screenplay
1934Hide-Out...Screenplay
1934The Thin Man...Screenplay
1934Fugitive Lovers...Screenplay
1933Penthouse...Screenplay
1933The Secret of Madame Blanche...Screenplay
1931Up Pops the Devil...Theatre Play

Acting