The DVD and Blu-ray released on June 16, 2009 by 20th Century Fox not only commemorates the film's 50th anniversary, but also what would have been Anne Frank's 80th birthday. She was born four days prior in 1929.
The following prologue is featured at the beginning of this movie: "The filming of scenes at the house where Anne Frank wrote her diary was made possible through the cooperation of the City of Amsterdam."
The original Broadway production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett opened at the Cort Theater on October 5, 1955, ran for 717 performances and won the 1956 Tony Award for the Best Play. Joseph Schildkraut, Gusti Huber and Lou Jacobi recreated their stage roles in the movie version for which Goodrich and Hackett also wrote the screenplay.
The play "The Diary of Anne Frank" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1956.