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Feb 23, 2024 · Like McCartney and Lennon, another of the most influential creative partnerships in history, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder each needed the balancing and opposite aspects of the other’s artistic and emotional temperament in order to most fruitfully produce and manage their mutual gifts.
May 10, 2024 · Director: Mitchell Leisen. Screenplay: Billy Wilder & Charles Brackett. Starring: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor, Elaine Barrie, Rex O’Malley, Hedda Hopper, Monty Woolley, Armand Kaliz & Billy Daniel.
Jun 8, 2021 · As the war years approached, Paramount assigned some scripts by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett to Leisen, starting a tumultuous partnership that left no one happy.
Nov 1, 2014 · His command of English was limited, which meant he was lucky to have forged a writing partnership with Brackett, with whom the studio placed him in 1936. The two found themselves turning out screenplays for such top-tier directors as Howard Hawks, Mitchell Leisen, and Ernst Lubitsch.
After Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett fought with director Mitchell Leisen to make sure as much of their work made on the screen as possible, Wilder was persuaded he had to direct the...
May 22, 2024 · In 1937 Paramount assigned him to work with 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).
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If nothing else, it is revealing that the “I” which Wilder used in later years in discussing the films on which Brackett and he had worked together is equally prevalent during the years the two men were together—much to the obvious and well-recorded irritation of Brackett.
