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Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the scripts for a number of America’s many cherished films, including It’s an Excellent Life, The Thin Man, Easter Celebration, Father of the Bride, Sexy Marietta, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Renowned movies, certainly, but writing both play and script for The Diary of Anne Frank was their glorious achievement. Controlled mayhem best explains their writing technique. They mentioned a picture at length, occasionally performing it out. They each wrote a draft, which they traded, afterwards.