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Release Date: 1959

Cast: Douglas Spencer, Mariah Gale, Lou Jacobi, Nicholas Farrell, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn, Charles Wagenheim, Ellie Kendrick, Geoff Breton, Lesley Sharp, Robert Boon, Dodie Heath ...MORE

Cast: Douglas Spencer, Mariah Gale, Lou Jacobi, Nicholas Farrell, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn, Charles Wagenheim, Ellie Kendrick, Geoff Breton, Lesley Sharp, Robert Boon, Dodie Heath, William Kirschner, Shelley Winters, Gretchen Goertz, Delmar Erickson, Joseph Schildkraut, Richard Beymer, Tim Dantay, Millie Perkins, Hendrik Hoeve van, Frank Tweddell, Gusti Huber, Edmund Purdom, Ron Cook, Kate Ashfield ...LESS

Categories: Movies, War Film, Film Adaptation, Drama Film, Black-And-White, Biographical Film

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It won three Academy Awards. The movie was based on the personal diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in a hiding place with her family during World War II. All her writings to her diary were addressed as 'Dear Kitty'. The diary was published after the end of the war by her father Otto Frank (played by Joseph Schildkraut, also a Jew). By this time all... MORE

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It won three Academy Awards. The movie was based on the personal diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in a hiding place with her family during World War II. All her writings to her diary were addressed as 'Dear Kitty'. The diary was published after the end of the war by her father Otto Frank (played by Joseph Schildkraut, also a Jew). By this time all his other family members were killed by the Nazis. As a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter Anne. Miep promptly retrieves the journal for Otto, and he receives solace reading the words written by LESS