Frances Goodrich Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on "Easter Parade" in 1948 and one for "Father's Little Dividend" in 1951
• Won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for her work with then-husband Albert Hackett on the play, "The Diary of Anne Frank․"
• After graduating from Vassar College in 1912, she would go on to study at the New York School of Social Work for another year
• She and husband Albert Hackett's success in playwriting lead to their signing as a writing team with MGM in the 1930s
• Made her Broadway acting debut in 1916 alongside co-star Ruth Chatterton in "Come Out of the Kitchen․"