This film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play is based on the actual memoirs kept by young Holocaust victim Anne Frank. For two years, Anne and her family shared a small attic space with the Van Daan family, where they hid from the Gestapo occupying Amsterdam. Teenaged Anne not only chronicled the rise of Nazism, but also her personal experiences as a young girl coming of age and the family dynamics of the small group of people with which she lived. Director Stevens, among the first outsiders to witness the atrocities of the concentration camps, turned to more serious subjects such as this after World War II. Among the many accolades it received were three Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. The real Otto Frank, the Frank family’s only survivor, was given script and casting approval and worked as a consultant throughout the entire production.— Jack Fields
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