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‘Diary of Anne Frank’ opens on Broadway 60 years ago this hour (Oct 5 1955)

(Wednesday, October 5, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EDT)The Diary of Anne Frank, a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank (1929-1945), opened tonight at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in New York.

The cast was led by Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank and Susan Strasberg as Anne Frank.