The real Nick and Nora
Subtitle: Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, writers of stage and screen classics
By: David L. Goodrich.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Goodrich, Frances.; Hackett, Albert.; Authorship -- Collaboration -- History -- 20th century.; Dramatists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.; Married people -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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. Their drama based on Anne Frank's immortal diary won the Pulitzer Prize and created controversy that still persists.".

"The Real Nick and Nora is a 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, 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. Featuring twenty-one illustrations, The Real Nick and Nora is a behind-the-scenes pass into the Hollywood and Broadway of yesteryear."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes filmography (p. 275-276).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations ix; title: Acknowledgments xi; title: Introduction s; title: 1 Frances, the Lawn Child 7; title: 2 Albert, the Nickelodeon Child 21; title: 3 Working, Fighting, and Living Together 37; title: 4 Hollywood 1931: A Hopeful Baptism 54; title: 5 Entering Hollywood's Golden Age 59; title: 6 The Thin Man 75; title: 7 Naughty Marietta and Ah, Wilderness! 84; title: 8 Fighting for Writers' Rights 95; title: 9 Rose Marie, Art Collecting, and Thin Man Struggles 1o6; title: 10 The Garden of Allah 115; title: 11 A "Lovely Nervous Breakdown" 123; title: 12 A Working Sabbatical: 1939-1943 136; title: 13 "Paramount's Lot Is Not a Happy One" 150; title: 14 It's Not a Wonderful Life 16o; title: 15 Easter Parade and Other Judy Garland Hits 169; title: 16 Father of the Bride 182; title: 17 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 189; title: 18 Writing The Diary of Anne Frank 203; title: 19 Getting The Diary of Anne Frank on the Stage 218; title: 20 After The Diary 229; title: 21 Hollywood Finale 245; title: 22 Back in New York 255; title: Epilogue 269; title: Filmography 275; title: Notes 277; title: Select Bibliography 289; title: Index 295.