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==Career== Soon after she left the New York School of Social Work, Goodrich began the acting portion of her career at the [[The Players (New York City)|Players Club]] in New York City. From there she went to Northampton, Massachusetts, where she acted in stock theater.<ref name="naw">{{cite book |last1=Ware |first1=Susan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSaMu4F06AQC&dq=%22Robert+Ames%22+actor&pg=PA240 |title=Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century |date=2004 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01488-6 |pages=240β241 |language=en |access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> Her acting credits on Broadway included ''Perkins'' (1918), ''Daddy Long Legs'' (1918), ''Fashions for Men'' (1922), ''Queen Victoria'' (1923), ''A Good Bad Woman'' (1925), ''Skin Deep'' (1927), and ''Excess Baggage'' (1927).<ref>{{cite web |title=Frances Goodrich |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/frances-goodrich-5555 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=January 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110024933/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/frances-goodrich-5555 |archive-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> For the summer of 1928, Goodrich joined the summer stock cast at Denver's [[Elitch Theatre]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Parrish |first=Vicki |date=1995-01-01 |title=The American Stage Careers of Fredric March and Florence Eldridge. |url=https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6042 |journal=LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses |doi=10.31390/gradschool_disstheses.6042|s2cid=165391241 |doi-access=free }}https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/6042</ref> Goodrich showed Hackett a script she had written, entitled ''Such A Lady'', and they rewrote it together. This was the beginning of their collaboration.<ref name=":0" /> Not long after marrying Hackett, the couple settled in 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 early assignments was writing the screenplay for ''[[The Thin Man (film)|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]] (played by [[William Powell]] and [[Myrna Loy]]). The resulting film was one of the major hits of the year, and the script was considered to show a modern relationship in a realistic manner for the first time.{{Citation needed |date=September 2024}} The couple received [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Academy Award for Screenplay]] nominations for ''The Thin Man'', ''[[After the Thin Man]]'' (1936), ''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]'' (1950) and ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' (1955). They won [[Writers Guild of America]] awards for ''[[Easter Parade (film)|Easter Parade]]'' (1949), ''[[Father's Little Dividend]]'' (1951), ''Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'' (1954), and ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)|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 play ''[[The Diary of Anne Frank (play)|The Diary of Anne Frank]]''. Some of their other films include: ''[[Another Thin Man]]'' (1939) and ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]'' (1946).{{Citation needed |date=September 2024}}
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