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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.
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.
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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.”
…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).
Donald Brackett, an SFU Continuing Studies instructor, explored the dynamics behind the creation of the 1950 film noir classic Sunset Boulevard and the highly combustible and competitive partnership between its director, Billy Wilder, and its writer/producer, Charles Brackett. The lecture also covered the film’s large social impact on popular ...
Jan 10, 2015 · New book on Hollywood's Golden Age includes insights from Billy Wilder's oft-overlooked writing partner Charles Brackett.
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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 ...
