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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Title:
The Diary of Anne Frank
Year: 1959
Director: George Stevens
Three Oscars for this one!
Millie Perkins is Anne Frank.
IMBD mentions that Audrey Hepburn
was offered the role but declined as she herself saw the
Nazis live and in 3D in the Netherlands herding Jews onto boxcars
like cattle.
Historical Background
Wee Anne Frank
and her family lived in hiding in Amsterdam 1942 - 1944 to escape
Nazi persecution, but the Nazis and the Holocaust
caught up on them.
Here is more on the real
Anne Frank and here is
more on the
Holocaust.
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