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Frank, Anne
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...Anne Frank, 1929–45, German diarist, b. Frankfurt...on the 50th anniversary of her death. Anne Frank also wrote stories, fables, and essays...and C. A. Lee (1999); M. Gies, Anne Frank Remembered (1988); R. Van Der Rol and......
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Kanin, Garson
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......films. Kanin's Broadway hits included the comedy Born Yesterday (1946), which he also wrote, the drama The Diary of Anne Frank (1955), and the musical Funny Girl (1964). In Hollywood he specialized in light comedy, directing movies that included......
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Schildkraut, Rudolph
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......production of Liliom (1921). He appeared in many motion pictures after 1921. His performance as the father in The Diary of Anne Frank (1955) was outstanding. See his autobiography, My Father and I (1959)....
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Bergen (town, Lower Saxony, Germany)
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......prisoner-of-war camp, it was converted to a concentration camp in 1942. Some 100,000 camp inmates, among them Anne Frank and Josef Čapek, died of disease, starvation, and other causes. A museum and memorial are there....
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Amsterdam (city, Netherlands)
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......museum, the Van Gogh museum, the Stedelijk Museum with an outstanding collection of contemporary art, the house of Anne Frank, and Rembrandt's house. Amsterdam is also famous for the Concertgebouw Orchestra. The Univ. of Amsterdam, which......
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Dutch and Flemish literature
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......existentialism. His contemporary Gerrit Achterberg explored similar themes of life and death in his powerful poems. The diary of Anne Frank is only the best known of a vast number of works that concern the Dutch experience during World War II. The character......
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diary
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......accounts of daily life in the American colonies by William Bradford, John Winthrop, William Byrd, and Samuel Sewall; Anne Frank's diary (1947, tr. 1953), an account of the early days of World War II by a young German-Jewish girl who died......
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Stevens, George Cooper
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......1935), Gunga Din (1939), Woman of the Year (1942), I Remember Mama (1948), Shane (1952), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). Stevens won Acadamy Awards as best director for A Place in the......
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Oakley, Annie
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......performer, b. Darke co., Ohio. Her original name was Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee. From childhood on she was a "dead shot" with a rifle. She defeated in contest the marksman and vaudeville star Frank E. Butler, who subsequently married her and became her manager......
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dime novels
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......Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860), by Anne Stephens, which is said to have sold 300,000 copies in the...and series of stories such as those about the Rover Boys and Frank Merriwell. See E. Pearson, Dime Novels (1929); A. Johannsen......