Playwright David Mamet to pen Anne Frank film | Entertainment | Reuters Playwright David Mamet, whose works often revolve around cutthroat men who use bruising dialogue, will write a screenplay about Holocaust victim Anne Frank, the Walt Disney Co said on Wednesday. The film will be based on Frank's famous diary, a 1950s U.S. play about Frank by writers Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, and Mamet's own take on the material, Disney officials said. No date has been set for the film's production or release.
Anne Frank video: Museum publishes only known footage of diarist on YouTube | Mail Online The only known film footage of diarist Anne Frank has been released for the first time to a worldwide audience. The haunting black-and-white images show the then 12-year-old schoolgirl leaning out a window in her home city of Amsterdam at the height of World War II in July 1941.
