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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.
Charles Brackett was a screenwriter and producer who worked with Billy Wilder on 13 films, including Sunset Blvd. and The Lost Weekend. He won three Oscars and retired in 1962 due to illness.
Wilder. 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).
Jan 10, 2015 · New book on Hollywood's Golden Age includes insights from Billy Wilder's oft-overlooked writing partner Charles Brackett
Aug 7, 2016 · Unlike Wilder, Charles Brackett (1892-1969) was a long-established American. Indeed, Brackett’s family could trace their roots back to the arrival of their ancestor Richard Brackett at the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1629, one of the earliest colonial outposts in America.
Learn about the life and career of Charles Brackett, a renowned screenwriter and producer who collaborated with Billy Wilder on 13 movies, including Sunset Boulevard. Find out his awards, family, trivia and more on IMDb.
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.
