On this day in 1955, the play “The Diary of Anne Frank” had its Broadway premiere at the Cort Theater. Written by Frances Goodrich and Alfred Hackett, the play was based on the worldwide best-selling “Diary of a Young Girl,” an abridged version of the diary kept by the German-Dutch Holocaust victim Anne Frank, who died at Bergen-Belsen camp in March 1945, a few months short of her 16