"The Diary of Anne Frank"
By Alice Henry
@IreneVincent (15960)
United States
September 30, 2016 11:16am CST
Have you ever seen this movie? I saw it years ago and also read the book. I remember the movie very well because Shelley Winters won an Academy Award as a supporting actress for that movie.
I must say that Shelley Winters did a really good job of acting in that movie. Without her role, the movie would not have been so riveting. It seemed like her actions were going to expose their hiding place in scene after scene.
Shelley Winters died in 2006, at the age of 85, of heart failure, after a very successful career of over 100 films. I have seen a lot of her movies and always enjoyed her acting.
She also had a recurring role as Roseanne’s grandmother on the TV show “Roseanne” in the 1990s. I didn’t usually watch that show, but I did see it a couple times.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Sep 16
I have seen the movie with Shelley Winters as well as a college production of the play. I have visited Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and it is an amazing experience.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
I'm sure it was an "amazing experience." We have a huge Holocaust Museum here in Richmond, VA as well as an even bigger museum in Washington D.C. I have been to the one in Richmond but not the one in D.C.
It was very unsettling to go through the museum and read all the information and see the artifacts from some of the concentration camps. What a SAD piece of history. It makes my heart ache just to think about it.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
@JohnRoberts Wow! That must be something to experience. I can only imagine how that would feel.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Oct 16
@IreneVincent When you tour the Anne Frank House, you enter via the "hidden staircase" following the same steps the Germans did when capturing them. The original diary is displayed in her "room."
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
4 Oct 16
I haven't seen the movie but I read the book when I was 14 and it was on our reading list at school. In 1989 a touring exhibition called Anne Frank in the World came to a college in a neighbouring town here in England. It made a big impression on me.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
4 Oct 16
It's an amazing story of survival under very unusual circumstances. I think the movie with Shelley Winters did an excellent job in portraying the events.
I'm sure the exhibition you saw would have been awesome. What a great opportunity to see something like that. I'm sure it would make a big impression on anyone who got to see it.
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@buenavida (9984)
• Sweden
2 Oct 16
I read the book and saw the movie, maybe late 1950s or beginning of 1960s - but have no idea what actors there were in the movie.
I look forward to the resurrection, when so many who lost their lives during the wars come back and can live in a peaceful world, a paradise on earth.. 
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
The movie was in black and white and came out quite a few years ago. I'm really not sure what year. But, the movie comes on TV from time to time.
@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
Hey Kimberley. How are you?
It's good for children to know that story, I think. It was a sad situation and one that should have never happened.
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@IvySaysHi (4603)
• United States
30 Sep 16
I need to look her up. I have seen the movie, but it was long ago. The actresses name sounds so familiar.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
Yes, Shelley Winters started as a chorus girl who some say was not very pretty, but then the studio whose contract she was under, glamorized her and started putting her in seductive roles.
She changed herself from being stereotyped in those types of roles and became a very polished, dramatic actress.
She sometimes played the role of a "dumb blond" but she wasn't dumb. She knew EXACTLY what she needed to do to become an award-winning actress.
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@grvdubey11 (1879)
• India
30 Sep 16
Book is fantastic , havent seen the movie yet.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
Yes, the book AND the movie are worth reviewing. This was a SAD piece of history.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
Darn! That's a shame you didn't get to go see it, but I know how those tour guides have to stick to a PLAN.
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
30 Sep 16
I did not realize that was her in Roseanne. I did not see the movie, but the book was required reading in school. It was very enlightening.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
Yes, the movie, of course, was based on a true-life situation, an actual diary, written by Anne Frank who was just a teenager. I'm sure that the movie was different from what actually happened but I thought it was very realistic.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
Yes, she was. I always enjoyed her movies.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
I didn't know that there was more than one movie, but that doesn't surprise me. I just don't think I've heard of it before this though. I'll have to look into that.
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@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
30 Sep 16
A local theatre company is putting The Diary of Anne Frank sometime in November. I am thinking that I may go. Yes I did see the movie and read the book. I do agree with you that Shelley Winters did a wonderful job in the movie. I also enjoyed watching her on Roseanne. I did watch that show for the most part and I enjoyed it.
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@IreneVincent (15960)
• United States
1 Oct 16
I hope you get to go to the play at the local theatre. I'm sure it would bring back scenes you may remember from the movie and the book. I would go in a heartbeat if we had something here.
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