Word: gooodrich
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...Young Girl (edited by Otto Frank and published in 1947) omitted a good deal of material that her father deemed unsuitable, from Anne's criticisms of her mother to her musings about sex. The Broadway play, written by the husband-wife screenwriting team of Albert Hackett and Frances Gooodrich (It's a Wonderful Life), prettied up the diary even more, downplaying specifics of Nazi crimes against the Jews and recasting the story as a universal tale of suffering and hope. The Hackett-Goodrich version supplanted an earlier, more faithful adaptation written by Jewish novelist Meyer Levin, which was rejected...
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