Biography
Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 – January 29, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter, best known for her collaborations with her partner and husband Albert Hackett. Goodrich was born in Belleville, New Jersey, the daughter of Madeleine Christy (née Lloyd) and Henry Wickes Goodrich. The family moved to nearby Nutley when Goodrich was two. She married actor Robert Ames in 1917 (divorced 1923), the writer H.W. Van Loon in 1927 (divorced 1930), and Albert Hackett in 1931. Goodrich and...
Complete Filmography

Father of the Bride Part II
1995
Original Film Writer
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too...

Father of the Bride
1991
Original Film Writer
George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't...

The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
Theatre Play, Screenplay
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during World War II.

The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
Theatre Play
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Five Finger Exercise
1962
Screenplay
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.

The Diary of Anne Frank
1959
Screenplay, Theatre Play
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

A Certain Smile
1958
Screenplay
A pretty Parisian law student falls in love with her boyfriend's uncle.

Gaby
1956
Screenplay
A French ballerina falls in love with an American paratrooper on a two day pass in London near the end of World War II.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954
Screenplay
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

The Long, Long Trailer
1954
Screenplay
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage...

Give a Girl a Break
1953
Writer
When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknow...

Too Young to Kiss
1951
Writer
Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talent...

Father's Little Dividend
1951
Screenplay
Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be...

Father of the Bride
1950
Screenplay
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself,...

In the Good Old Summertime
1949
Screenplay
Two co-workers in a music shop dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Easter Parade
1948
Screenplay, Original Story
On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract ...

The Pirate
1948
Screenplay
A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and ...

Summer Holiday
1948
Screenplay
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi...

It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Screenplay
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinfli...

The Virginian
1946
Screenplay
Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong foot...

The Hitler Gang
1944
Screenplay
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.

Lady in the Dark
1944
Screenplay
A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life.

Another Thin Man
1939
Writer
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Society Lawyer
1939
Screenplay
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help ...

Thanks for the Memory
1938
Theatre Play
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publishe...

The Firefly
1937
Screenplay
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order fo...

After the Thin Man
1936
Screenplay
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady...

Small Town Girl
1936
Screenplay
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dak...

Rose Marie
1936
Screenplay
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.

Ah, Wilderness!
1935
Screenplay
At the turn of the century, a young man graduates high school and realizes the joys and sorrows of growing up, with some loving help and guidance from...

Naughty Marietta
1935
Screenplay
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unli...

Hide-Out
1934
Screenplay
Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his cr...

The Thin Man
1934
Screenplay
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Fugitive Lovers
1934
Screenplay
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels...

Penthouse
1933
Screenplay
Gertie Waxted knows how notorious gangster Jim Crelliman runs his rackets, because she's long been under the hoodlum's thumb. She's secretly helping l...

The Secret of Madame Blanche
1933
Screenplay
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.

Up Pops the Devil
1931
Theatre Play
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writi...