The film academy will screen a new 4K restoration of 1959’s “The Diary of Anne Frank” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
George Stevens made a name for himself directing such classics as the sophisticated 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical “Swing Time,” the rip-roaring 1939 adventure “Gunga Din” and the charming 1943 romantic comedy “The More the Merrier.”Stevens, as a member of Special Services, documented the Normandy invasion on D-day and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
Anne Frank was an eternally optimistic teenager who wrote about her hopes and dreams and coming-of-age difficulties while hiding from the Nazis from 1942 to ’44 with her family and others in a small attic in Amsterdam above a business. They were captured in 1944; Anne died in Bergen-Belsen shortly before the end of World War II.
The screening, co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, will feature a discussion led by filmmaker Jon Kean with Perkins, Baker, George Stevens Jr. and Holocaust survivor Lya Frank. “It was Otto Frank. We went in and sat with him and his wife, whom he met in Auschwitz. He was getting the first look at the man who was going to tell his daughter’s story. After a moment, he went over to the filing cabinet and brought something wrapped in cloth and put it on the desk and unfolded it in front of us. It was [Anne’s] red diary.”
American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre; Millie Perkins as Anne Frank. DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, 1959, 20th Century Fox, 171 min. Dir. George Stevens. Adapted from the diary of 13-year-old Anne Frank, recounting the real-life story of a Jewish family that went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland.Shortly thereafter, the two actresses were invited to have dinner with Frank at the home of Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, who had written the “Diary” play and screenplay.“George said to me, Mr.
But when she was invited to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam for a special event recently, “one of the girls who works there came up to me and said, ‘Do you have a copy of the letter Mr. Frank sent you?’ I said, ‘What letter?”’Perkins learned that he had sent her a letter after he saw the movie. “It went to California,” the woman told her. “We assumed that you always had it. But they sent us a copy of it because they have archives here with all these records.”She has a copy now.
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