Albert Hackett, who won a Pulitzer Prize with his first wife and collaborator, Frances Goodrich, for their play "The Diary of Anne Frank," has died in Manhattan. He was 95. The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, Gisele Svetlik Hackett.
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In addition to being Broadway playwrights, Hackett and Goodrich were among the most Hollywood's successful screenwriting teams. During their long, distinguished career, they wrote more than 30 screenplays, principally comedies and musicals, including "The Thin Man," "Easter Parade," "Father of the Bride" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers."Goodrich died in 1984, at the age of 93. Hackett and his second wife were married the following year.