Diary of Anne Frank. A Dramatization.
First Play Version Of Anne Frank’s Story,
Inscribed By The Dramatists
Frank, Anne. The Diary Of Anne Frank. Dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett... With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. New York: Random House, 1956.
8vo.; upper hinge tender; green cloth, photographic label on front cover; green and tan dust-jacket.
First edition of the stage adaptation of Frank’s legendary Diary of a Young Girl. The diary itself was first published in English in 1952; three years later The Diary of Anne Frank opened at New York’s Cort Theatre. The play won every major theatrical award, including the Tony, the Critic’s Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.
A presentation copy, inscribed to the preeminent English theatrical producer Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont by the authors of the adaptation: To Binkie from Frances and Albert, ‘Your authors are purring’, September 3rd 1956. The production of The Diary of Anne Frank was an intense experience for all involved:
Once...Mr. and Mrs. Hackett [had been persuaded] to write the play, The Diary of Anne Frank became virtually a mission. Everyone approached the production with a particular sense of responsibility. Garson Kanin, who had undertaken to direct the performance, went to Amsterdam to meet Anne’s father, who came from Switzerland to help. Although Mr. and Mrs. Hackett had completed the script, they went, too. For ten days Mr. Kanin and Mr. and Mrs. Hackett visited the attic, studied the neighborhood, listened to the street and canal sounds and ransacked Mr. Frank’s mind and memory for details and general impressions. (Foreword, x)
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