Albert Hackett
Age: 95 | From: New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1900-02-16 13:51:51
Death: 1995-03-16 13:51:51
Aliases: Albert M. Hackett
Gender: Male
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 41
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Maurice Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Hackett was born in New York City, the son of actress Florence Hackett (née Hart) and Maurice Hackett. Not long after marrying screenwriter Frances Goodrich, 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, was considered to be groundbreaking. However this is only because it was written and released before the enactment of the Hollywood Production Code, which strictly censored movies from mid-1934 until the early 1960s (see Pre-Code). The other Nick and Nora films show a steep decline regarding the "groundbreaking maturity" of the Charleses' marriage. The Hacketts 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).[1] 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 and the New York Drama Critics Circle award 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).
Most Famous Work
It's a Wonderful Life
(1946) Screenplay
Father of the Bride Part II
(1995) Original Film Writer
Father of the Bride
(1991) Original Film Writer
The Diary of Anne Frank
(1959) Screenplay
The Thin Man
(1934) Screenplay
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(1954) Screenplay
Easter Parade
(1948) Original Story
After the Thin Man
(1936) ScreenplayActing
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| 1930 | Chester Underwood | |
| 1922 | Kenneth Plummer | |
| Hopp Jumpp | ||
| 1921 | Billy O'Dair | |
| 1920 | Leigh Carter | |
| Jimmie Ryan | ||
| 1919 | Robert | |
| 1912 | Albert Mills - the Little Boy | |
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