---
name: "Albert Hackett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/albert-hackett"
fi1m_id: "albert-hackett"
imdb_id: "nm0352443"
tmdb_id: 26160
wikidata_id: "Q1367568"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 February 1900"
died: "16 March 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-04T21:43:49.639110+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Albert Hackett

## Identity

Albert Hackett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/albert-hackett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** albert-hackett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0352443
- **TMDB ID:** 26160
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1367568
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hackett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1367568, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26160

Writer. Born 14 February 1900 in Nutley, New Jersey, USA. Died 16 March 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 February 1900, Nutley, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 16 March 1995
- **Active:** 1934–1991
- **Also known as:** Albert M. Hackett, Albert Maurice Hackett
- **Frequently works with:** [Frances Goodrich](https://film.one/person/frances-goodrich.md), [Hunt Stromberg](https://film.one/person/hunt-stromberg.md), [W. S. Van Dyke](https://film.one/person/w-s-van-dyke.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 4 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as writer, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 74 (2), 1940s 91 (1), 1950s 70 (3), 1990s 65 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 70 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 4, Drama 4, Romance 3, Crime 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $147m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hackett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1367568, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/26160

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*It's a Wonderful Life*](https://film.one/film/its-a-wonderful-life.md) (91)
- **Tubi:** [*Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*](https://film.one/film/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers.md) (76)

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## Biography

Albert Hackett was an American dramatist and screenwriter. He collaborated extensively with his wife Frances Goodrich on stage plays and film screenplays.

Their screenwriting credits include *The Thin Man* (1934) and its sequels *After the Thin Man* (1936) and *Another Thin Man* (1939), *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946), *Easter Parade* (1948), *Father of the Bride* (1950), and *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* (1954). They adapted their own Broadway play *The Diary of Anne Frank* for the 1959 film.

Hackett and Goodrich received Academy Award nominations for screenplays including *The Thin Man*, *After the Thin Man*, *Father of the Bride* and *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*. They won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a Tony Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle award for *The Diary of Anne Frank*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Father of the Bride* (1991), Fi1m 65, Original Film Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride-1991.md)
- *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1959), Fi1m 58, Screenplay, Theatre Play — [page](https://film.one/film/the-diary-of-anne-frank.md)
- *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* (1954), Fi1m 76, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers.md)
- *Father of the Bride* (1950), Fi1m 77, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride.md)
- *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946), Fi1m 91, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/its-a-wonderful-life.md)
- *Naughty Marietta* (1935), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/naughty-marietta.md)
- *The Thin Man* (1934), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-man.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Father of the Bride Part II* (1995), Original Film Writer
- *Father of the Bride* (1991), Original Film Writer — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride-1991.md)
- *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1980), Screenplay, Theatre Play
- *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1967), Theatre Play
- *Five Finger Exercise* (1962), Screenplay
- *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1959), Screenplay, Theatre Play — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/the-diary-of-anne-frank.md)
- *A Certain Smile* (1958), Screenplay
- *Gaby* (1956), Screenplay
- *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers* (1954), Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/seven-brides-for-seven-brothers.md)
- *The Long, Long Trailer* (1954), Screenplay
- *Give a Girl a Break* (1953), Writer
- *Too Young to Kiss* (1951), Writer
- *Father's Little Dividend* (1951), Screenplay
- *Father of the Bride* (1950), Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/father-of-the-bride.md)
- *In the Good Old Summertime* (1949), Screenplay
- *Easter Parade* (1948), Screenplay, Original Story
- *The Pirate* (1948), Screenplay
- *Summer Holiday* (1948), Screenplay
- *It's a Wonderful Life* (1946), Screenplay — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/its-a-wonderful-life.md)
- *The Virginian* (1946), Screenplay
- *The Hitler Gang* (1944), Screenplay
- *Lady in the Dark* (1944), Screenplay
- *Another Thin Man* (1939), Writer
- *Society Lawyer* (1939), Screenplay
- *Thanks for the Memory* (1938), Theatre Play
- *The Firefly* (1937), Screenplay
- *After the Thin Man* (1936), Screenplay
- *Small Town Girl* (1936), Screenplay
- *Rose Marie* (1936), Screenplay
- *Ah, Wilderness!* (1935), Screenplay
- *Naughty Marietta* (1935), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/naughty-marietta.md)
- *Hide-Out* (1934), Screenplay
- *The Thin Man* (1934), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thin-man.md)
- *Fugitive Lovers* (1934), Screenplay
- *Penthouse* (1933), Screenplay
- *The Secret of Madame Blanche* (1933), Screenplay
- *Up Pops the Devil* (1931), Theatre Play
- *Whoopee!* (1930), as Chester Underwood
- *A Woman's Woman* (1922), as Kenneth Plummer
- *The Country Flapper* (1922), as Hopp Jumpp
- *Molly O'* (1921), as Billy O'Dair
- *The Good-Bad Wife* (1920), as Leigh Carter
- *Away Goes Prudence* (1920), as Jimmie Ryan
- *Anne of Green Gables* (1919), as Robert
- *The Career of Katherine Bush* (1919), as Bert Bush
- *Come Out of the Kitchen* (1919), as Charles Daingerfield
- *The School Principal* (1913), as Tommy Moriarty
- *Just Pretending* (1912), as Albert Mills - the Little Boy

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 4 nominated

- 1955: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Seven Brides for Seven Brothers*
- 1951: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Father of the Bride*
- 1937: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *After the Thin Man*
- 1935: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Thin Man*

### Other awards — 2 won

- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1956: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *The Diary of Anne Frank*
- Tony Award for Best Play 1956: Tony Award for Best Play (won), for *The Diary of Anne Frank*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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