The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)

The Diary of Anne Frank
Film poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed byGeorge Stevens
Written byFrances Goodrich
Albert Hackett
Based onThe Diary of
Anne Frank
1955 by
Frances Goodrich
Albert Hackett
The Diary of a Young Girl 1947 by
Anne Frank
Produced byGeorge Stevens
StarringMillie Perkins
Joseph Schildkraut
Richard Beymer
Shelley Winters
Diane Baker
Ed Wynn
CinematographyWilliam C. Mellor
Edited byDavid Bretherton
William Mace
Robert Swink
Music byAlfred Newman
Distributed by20th Century-Fox
Release date
  • March 18, 1959 (1959-03-18)
Running time
179 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
German
Budget$3.8 million[1]
Box office$2.3 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2]

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 American biographical drama film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play of the same name, which was in turn based on the posthumously published diary of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl who lived in hiding in Amsterdam with her family during World War II. It was directed by George Stevens, a Hollywood filmmaker previously involved with capturing evidence of concentration camps during the war, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast.

All Frank's writings to her diary were addressed as "Dear Kitty". It was published after the end of the war by her father, Otto Frank (played in the film by Joseph Schildkraut, who was also Jewish). His entire family had been murdered in the Holocaust. The interiors were shot in Los Angeles on a sound stage duplicate of the Amsterdam factory, with exteriors filmed at the actual building.[3]

The film was positively received by critics, currently holding a 81% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[4] It won three Academy Awards in 1960, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Shelley Winters later donated her Oscar to the Anne Frank Museum. In 2006, it was honored as the eighteenth most inspiring American film on the list AFI's 100 Years…100 Cheers.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p252
  2. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34
  3. ^ Carey, Matt (August 10, 2009). "Remembering 'The Diary of Anne Frank'". CNN. Cable News Network. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
  4. ^ The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), retrieved 2020-01-15

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