Albert Hackett

Albert Maurice HackettTemplate:Citation needed (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>) was an American actor, dramatist and screenwriter most noted for his collaborations with his partner and wife Frances Goodrich. Their film work includes the first three instalments in the Thin Man series, It's a Wonderful Life, Easter Parade, Father of the Bride and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

They won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for their play The Diary of Anne Frank. They received four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Early years

Hackett was born in New York City,<ref name="ocam">Template:Cite book</ref> the son of actress Florence Hackett (née Hart) and Maurice Hackett. He attended Professional Children's School and started out as a child actor, appearing on stage and in films. His brother was actor Raymond Hackett. Their stepfather was the early film actor Arthur V. Johnson, who married their mother Florence around 1910. His sister-in-law was Blanche Sweet, Raymond's second wife.Template:Citation needed

Career

Hackett acted in many films, including Anne of Green Gables (1919).<ref name="g">Template:Cite news</ref> His Broadway credits as a performer include Mr. and Mrs. North (1941), Up Pops the Devil (1930), Mirrors (1928), Off-Key (1927), Twelve Miles Out (1925), The Nervous Wreck (1923), Up the Ladder (1922), Just a Woman (1914) and The Happy Marriage (1909). His Broadway credits as a writer include The Diary of Anne Frank (1955 and 1997), The Great Big Doorstep (1942), Bridal Wise (1932), Everybody's Welcome (1931) and Up Pops the Devil (1930).<ref name="ibdb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

For the summer of 1928, Hackett joined the summer stock cast at Denver's Elitch Theatre. Fellow cast member, Frances Goodrich, showed him a script she had written, entitled Such A Lady, and they rewrote it together. This was the beginning of their collaboration.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Soon after marrying screenwriter Frances Goodrich, the couple moved 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 the studio until 1939. Among their earliest assignments was writing the screenplay for The Thin Man (1934). They were encouraged by 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<ref name="g" /> (played by William Powell and Myrna Loy). The resulting film became one of the year's major hits, and the script, considered to show a modern relationship in a realistic manner for the first time, was considered groundbreaking, although it preceded enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code.Template:Citation needed

Recognition

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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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), and were nominated 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).Template:Citation needed

Personal life

In 1985, one year after Goodrich's death, Hackett married Gisella Svetlik, a former dancer who had appeared in the original Broadway productions of Kiss Me, Kate, Carousel, Follow the Girls, Look, Ma, I'm Dancin'! and Paint Your Wagon.<ref name=":0" /> She was the widow of theatrical agent and Emmy Award-winning The Phil Silvers Show writer Harvey Orkin. Svetlik and Hackett were together until his death in 1995.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1912	My Princess	Davey	Short
1912	A College Girl	TommyTemplate:SndJean's Brother	Short
1912	In After Years	Little Roy Wilson	Short
1912	The Violin's Message	Bennie VaneTemplate:SndBlossom's Younger Brother	Short
1912	The Wooden Bowl	The Grandson	Short
1912	The Spoiled Child	Albert HarroldTemplate:Sndthe Younger Son	Short
1912	Just Pretending	Albert MillsTemplate:Sndthe Little Boy	Short
1912	Two Boys	Albert Manning	Short
1913	Annie Rowley's Fortune	Annie's 2nd Brother	Short
1913	The School Principal	Tommy Moriarty	Short
1913	The Yarn of the 'Nancy Belle'	Child	Short
1914	The Lost Child	The Little Boy	Short
1914	Codes of Honor	Robert Bowditch as a boy (uncredited)	Short
1914	The Lie	Bobbie PhillipsTemplate:Sndthe Little Boy	Short
1914	A Prince of Peace		Short
1914	The House Party	Jack CarstairsTemplate:SndSon	Short
1915	Black Fear	George Martindale
1918	The Venus Model	Boy
1919	Come Out of the Kitchen	Charles Daingerfield
1919	The Career of Katherine Bush	Bert Bush
1919	Anne of Green Gables	Robert
1920	Away Goes Prudence	Jimmie Ryan
1920	The Good-Bad Wife	Leigh Carter
1921	Molly O	Billy O'Dair
1922	The Country Flapper	Hopp Jumpp
1922	A Woman's Woman	Kenneth Plummer
1922	The Darling of the Rich	Fred Winship
1930	Whoopee!	Chester Underwood

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• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 16.

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