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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 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.
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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).
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 · 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.
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.
Learn about Charles Brackett, an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer who worked with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Find his biography, filmography, awards, and diaries on TMDB.
