Millie Perkins on Filming The Diary of Anne Frank

Q&A with Millie Perkins

By Erin J. Shea

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ES: What was it like for you during filming?

MP: I didn't have a social life for six months. I lived in a one-room apartment on Fountain Avenue, and I used to buy frozen macaroni and cheese and eat that every night and go home and go to sleep and then get back up and do it all over again.

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Published on July 17, 2009

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