Episode 4: Anne on the Road

02/07/23 • 31 min

After "The Diary of Anne Frank" closed on Broadway, the show toured in over 100 U.S. cities, where many audience members encountered stories of Jews and the Holocaust for the first time. We talk to two of the actors from that tour — Pauline Hahn and Steve Press — who read scenes together for the first time in more than 60 years.

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Episode 3: Moving On

For many actors who appeared in "The Diary of Anne Frank," the show proved to be a pinnacle they would never again attain. We talk to six actors who left theater and film after Anne Frank and went on to lead very different lives. Some went on to become world-famous photographers, television directors, and some never spoke about their role in the play at all. Featuring interviews with Leonora Rogers Schildkraut, Peter Dan Levin, Arnold Margolin, Hale Gabrielson, Renee Pessin and Eva Rubinstein.

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Episode 5: Anne Goes to Hollywood

Hear how "The Diary of Anne Frank" became an Oscar-winning movie and how that movie changed the lives of its stars, Millie Perkins and Diane Baker, and its assistant director George Stevens Jr., whose father, George Stevens Sr., directed the film. Featuring interviews with Millie Perkins, Diane Baker, and George Stevens Jr.