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  1. Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Life and career. Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the son of Mary Emma Corliss and New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett.

  2. Died March 9, 1969 (76) Add to list. Won 3 Oscars. 7 wins & 13 nominations total. Photos. Known for. Sunset Blvd. 8.4. Writer. 1950. The Lost Weekend.

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    • Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
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    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  3. Mini Bio. Charles Brackett, born in Saratoga Springs, New York, of Scottish ancestry, followed in his attorney-father's footsteps and graduated with a law degree from Harvard University in 1920. He practised law for several years, before commencing work as drama critic for The New Yorker (1925-29), in addition to submitting short stories to The ...

    • November 26, 1892
    • March 9, 1969
  4. In Billy Wilder: Early life and work. …former New Yorker theatre critic Charles Brackett. After first collaborating on Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938), they wrote such romantic-comedy gems as Mitchell Leisen’s Midnight (1939), Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939), and Howard Hawks’s Ball of Fire (1941).

  5. Jan 10, 2015 · Jan. 9, 2015 1:10 PM PT. In screenwriter Charles Bracketts diary entry for Aug. 18, 1936, he recalls working for the first time with Billy Wilder, with whom Paramount had paired him to write...

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  7. Feb 23, 2024 · After curating a 2013 program called Strange Magic for Cinematheque of all the films written together, then eventually produced and directed by the Brackett/Wilder team, I am currently curating a follow-up Cinematheque program selection slated for 2024: Double Solitaire: The Unlikely Cinema of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. It will showcase ...

  8. Aug 7, 2016 · But Wilder’s first great screenwriting partner, Charles Brackett, was arguably even more important to him, as it was Wilder’s work with Brackett on classics such as Ninotchka (1939), The Lost Weekend (1945) and, above all, Sunset Boulevard (1950) that enabled him to make his breakthrough in Hollywood after fleeing the rise of the Nazis in ...

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