Manhattan-born Albert Hacketts mother was stage star Florence Hackett, and his brother was matinee idol Raymond Hackett. Albert made his own stage bow at age six, studying his trade at New York's Professional Children's School. Though a moderately successful actor, Hackett longed to break into playwrighting, but would not realize this dream until meeting and marrying another performer with writing ambitions, Frances Goodrich. Hackett and his wife collaborated on the 1929 play Up Pops the Devil. The show was a success, and Hackett was invited to Hollywood to work as dialogue director of the film version. But Hackett refused to leave his wife behind in New York; nor did he want Goodrich to be regarded as merely a "writer's wife." When Hackett finally did come to Hollywood, it was as his wife's writing partner, a collaboration that lasted professionally until the team's 1962 retirement--and personally until Goodrich's death in 1984. The projects on which this exceptional duo worked include their adaptation of Eugene O'Neil's only comedy Ah! Wilderness (1935), Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and Stanley Donen's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954). Once he'd dedicated himself to writing, Hackett halted his acting career; he returned to the stage just once in the 1940 Broadway play Mr. and Mrs. North -- and then only as a favor to an old friend, playwright Owen Davis Jr.
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Father of the Bride II
From Screenplay by |
1995 | |||
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Father of the Bride
From Screenplay by, Screenwriter |
1991 | |||
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Screenwriter |
1980 | |||
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Five Finger Exercise
Screenwriter |
1962 | |||
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1959 | |||
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A Certain Smile
Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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Gaby
Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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The Long, Long Trailer
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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Give a Girl a Break
Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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Father's Little Dividend
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Too Young to Kiss
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Father of the Bride
Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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In the Good Old Summertime
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Easter Parade
Screen Story, Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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Summer Holiday
Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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The Pirate
Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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It's a Wonderful Life
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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The Virginian
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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The Hitler Gang
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Lady in the Dark
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Another Thin Man
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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Society Lawyer
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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Thanks for the Memory
Play Author |
1938 | |||
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The Firefly
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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After the Thin Man
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Rose Marie
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Small Town Girl
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Ah, Wilderness!
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Naughty Marietta
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Fugitive Lovers
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Hide-Out
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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The Thin Man
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Penthouse
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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The Secret of Madame Blanche
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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Up Pops the Devil
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Whoopee!
Actor |
1930 | |||
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The Darling of the Rich
Actor |
1923 | |||
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Country Flapper
Actor |
1922 | |||
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Woman's Woman
Actor |
1922 | |||
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Molly O'
Actor |
1921 | |||
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Away Goes Prudence
Actor |
1920 | |||
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Anne of Green Gables
Actor |
1919 | |||
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Come Out of the Kitchen
Actor |
1919 |




