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The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the screenplays for some of America’s most treasured movies, including It’s a Wonderful Life, The Thin Man, Easter Parade, Father of the Bride, Naughty Marietta, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Legendary films, indeed, but writing both the play and screenplay for The Diary of Anne Frank was their crowning achievement. Controlled chaos best describes their writing method. They discussed a scene at length, sometimes acting it out. Afterwards, they each wrote a draft, which they exchanged. “Then,” Frances said, “began ‘free criticism’—which sometimes erupted into screaming matches.” Noisy and contentious, the method worked splendidly. Enormously successful and remarkably prolific, Goodrich and Hackett began their thirty-four-year collaboration in 1928. Married after the first of their five plays became a hit, they were in many ways an unlikely pair. Frances, the privileged daughter of well-to-do parents, graduated from Vassar, then played minor parts on Broadway. Albert’s mother put him on stage at age five, when his father died, to help pay the bills, and he became a highly paid comedian. The Hacketts were known for their wit and high spirits and the pleasure of their Bel Air dinner parties. They waged memorable battles with their powerful bosses and were key activists in the stressful creation of the Screen Writers Guild. Once they had created Nick and Nora Charles, The Thin Man’s bright, charming, sophisticated lead couple, played memorably by William Powell and Myrna Loy, many people saw a strong resemblance, and the Hacketts acknowledged that they “put themselves into” Nick and Nora. The Real Nick and Nora is a dazzling assemblage of anecdotes featuring some of the most talented writers and the brightest lights of American stage and screen. The work was arduous, the parties luminous. On any given night the guests singing and acting out scripts at a party might include F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham, S. J. Perelman, Oscar Levant, Ogden Nash, Judy Garland, Abe Burrows, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell and June Allyson, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, James Cagney, and Dorothy Parker.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 809324083

 

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The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert
The Real Nick and Nora book. Read 6 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the screenplays for...
Nick and Nora Charles
Nora is also shown to have a network of blue blood relatives and friends in San Francisco and New York society, while Nick is a beloved celebrity among the criminal classes and those who associate with them (such as police, athletes, nightclub owners, etc.), particularly among San Francisco and New York's Irish communities.
The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert
In ''The Real Nick and Nora Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics,'' author and Frances' nephew David L. Goodrich puts together a comprehensive and delightful portrait of his aunt and her husband and writing partner Albert Hackett.
The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert
The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, Writers of Stage and Screen Classics. For those who wonder how screenwriting teams, as well as married folks, stay happily together ...
Why Nick & Nora are my favorite vintage movie couple
Nora Charles: “They say you were shot in the tabloids.” Nick Charles: “They never got near my tabloids.” Their pup is always by their side. If Nick and Nora provide the sizzle to the screen, Asta provides the spunk. This little terrier has plot lines of his own to follow while his owners traipse about town to save the day.
The Real Nick and Nora, a CurtainUp book review
In summary, The Real Nick and Nora adds up to a story about two people who embodied the American work ethic and the satisfactions of a close and enduring marriage. Frances Goodridge and Albert Hackett —The Hacketts— may not be as famous as many of their friends, but who needs instant name recognition when life has been a banquet of love, friendship and accomplishment.
The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert
“The Real Nick and Nora” is best in its depiction of the social life of madcap writers at play, a Hollywood group for which the Hacketts were the sane, sensible hub. Studio writers fought so much during word games at lunch they were forced to eat at a separate table.
The Real Nick and Nora: Frances Goodrich and Albert
The Real Nick and Nora is a thoroughly engaging evocation of the old Hollywood through deft portraits of the wonderfully skilled married couple Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett to whom we owe memorable films and plays from The Thin Man to The Diary of Anne Frank. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.; ""[L]iterate, informative, well researched, charming, and personal all at the same time.
The Thin Man (film)
The Thin Man is a 1934 American comedy mystery directed by W. S. Van Dyke and based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. The film stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a leisure class couple who enjoy copious drinking and flirtatious banter. Nick is a retired police detective who left his very successful career when he married Nora, a wealthy heiress accustomed to high society. Their wire haired fox terrier Asta was played by canine actor Skippy. In 1997, the

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