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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.
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
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
Jan 10, 2015 · Jan. 9, 2015 1:10 PM PT. In screenwriter Charles Brackett’s 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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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 ...
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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).
Nov 1, 2014 · He collaborated with the same man, Charles Brackett, on all but one of the features he co-wrote in Hollywood prior to 1951. In 1948, he went so far as to describe himself and Brackett, who produced the films that they wrote together, as “the happiest couple in Hollywood.”
