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Brackett was a president of the Screen Writers Guild (1938–1939) and for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1949–1955). He either wrote and/or produced over forty films, including To Each His Own, Ninotchka, The Major and the Minor, The Mating Season (1951), Niagara, The King and I, Ten North Frederick, The Remarkable Mr ...
Charles Brackett. Writer: Sunset Boulevard. 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 ...
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- Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Feb 23, 2024 · —Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder’s longtime writing partner and producer As an art critic and film historian, I have long asserted that cinema was not only a legitimate part of formal art history; it was in fact the actual culmination of that art history after evolving from the roots of photography and was, as Godard astutely pointed out ...
Charles Brackett. Writer: Sunset Boulevard. 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 Saturday ...
- November 26, 1892
- March 9, 1969
Nov 1, 2014 · Brackett and Wilder were the oddest of couples, just as Brackett himself was a misfit in Hollywood: He was a Republican Wasp, a pairing of traits unusual to the point of singularity in the screenwriting community, which was dominated, then as now, by left-leaning liberal Jews. But the two men shared a coolly detached sense of humor, and each ...
Other articles where Charles Brackett is discussed: Howard Hawks: Films of the 1940s: …of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks’s Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young, and Arthur Kennedy as ...
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Jan 10, 2015 · 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 the comedy "Bluebeard's ...
