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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.
- 1925–1962
- November 26, 1892, Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.
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
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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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…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).
Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. 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.
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Charles Brackett. Founders Award, 1966; Special Academy Award, 1957. Died: In Beverly Hills, California, 9 March 1969. Films as Writer: 1934. Enter Madam! (Nugent) 1935. College Scandal ( The Clock Strikes Eight ) (Nugent); The Crusades (De Mille); The Lost Outpost ( The Last Outpost ) (Gasnier and Barton); Without Regret (Young) 1936.
Charles Brackett was an exceptional individual: a Williams College graduate and Harvard-trained lawyer who joined the Allied Expeditionary Force during WWI and received the French Medal of Honor. A novelist with 5 published books and New Yorker drama critic, Charles was an Algonquin Roundtable regular.
