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Charles Brackett

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Charles Brackett

Charles Brackett is a writer born on November 26, 1892 in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He died on March 9, 1969, aged 76. He is known for Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend and Journey to the Center of the Earth. GloboWatch shows where to watch one of his movies and TV shows, country by country.

Known for
Writing
Born
November 26, 1892
Place of birth
Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Died
March 9, 1969
Also known as
Charles William Brackett

Biography

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. The family's roots traced back to the arrival of Richard Brackett in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, near present-day Springfield, Massachusetts. His mother's uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. A 1915 graduate of Williams College, he earned his law degree from Harvard University. He joined the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War I. He was awarded the French Medal of Honor. He was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and Vanity Fair, and a drama critic for The New Yorker. He wrote five novels: The Counsel of the Ungodly (1920), Week-End (1925), That Last Infirmity (1926), and American Colony (1929). and Entirely Surrounded (1934). Brackett was a president of the Screen Writers Guild (1938–1939) and 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. Pennypacker, and Blue Denim. Beginning in August 1936, Brackett worked with Billy Wilder, writing the film classics The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard, both of which won Academy Awards for their respective screenplays. Brackett described their collaboration process as follows: "The thing to do was suggest an idea, have it torn apart and despised. In a few days, it would be apt to turn up, slightly changed, as Wilder's idea. Once I got adjusted to that way of working, our lives were simpler." His partnership with Wilder ended in 1950 and Brackett went to work at 20th Century-Fox as a screenwriter and producer. His script for Titanic (1953) won him another Academy Award. He received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1958. Charles Brackett died on March 9, 1969. His diaries covering his screenwriting and social life from 1932 to 1949 were edited by Anthony Slide into Slide's book It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age.

Filmography

  1. 1962State FairProducer
  2. 1960High TimeProducer
  3. 1959Journey to the Center of the EarthScreenplay · Producer
  4. 1959Blue DenimProducer
  5. 1959The Remarkable Mr. PennypackerProducer
  6. 1958Ten North FrederickProducer
  7. 1958The Gift of LoveProducer
  8. 1957The Wayward BusProducer
  9. 1956Teenage RebelScreenplay · Producer
  10. 1956The King and IProducer
  11. 1956D-Day the Sixth of JuneProducer
  12. 1955The Girl in the Red Velvet SwingProducer · Screenplay
  13. 1955The Virgin QueenProducer
  14. 1954Woman's WorldProducer
  15. 1954Garden of EvilProducer
  16. 1953TitanicProducer · Screenplay
  17. 1953The Oscarsas Self · 2 episodes
  18. 1953NiagaraWriter · Producer
  19. 1951The Model and the Marriage BrokerWriter · Producer
  20. 1951The Mating SeasonWriter · Producer
  21. 1950The Screen Writeras Self (uncredited)
  22. 1950Sunset BoulevardProducer · Screenplay
  23. 1950Edge of DoomWriter
  24. 1948Miss Tatlock's MillionsScreenplay · Producer
  25. 1948A Foreign AffairScreenplay · Producer
  26. 1948The Emperor WaltzWriter · Producer
  27. 1946To Each His OwnStory · Screenplay · Producer
  28. 1945The Lost WeekendScreenplay · Producer
  29. 1944Skirmish on the Home FrontDirector
  30. 1944The UninvitedProducer
  31. 1943Five Graves to CairoScreenplay
  32. 1942The Major and the MinorWriter
  33. 1941Ball of FireScreenplay
  34. 1941Hold Back the DawnWriter
  35. 1940Arise, My LoveScreenplay
  36. 1939NinotchkaScreenplay
  37. 1939What a LifeScreenplay
  38. 1939MidnightScreenplay
  39. 1938That Certain AgeWriter
  40. 1938Bluebeard's 8th WifeScreenplay
  41. 1937Live, Love and LearnScreenplay
  42. 1936Piccadilly JimWriter
  43. 1936Woman TrapStory
  44. 1936Rose of the RanchoScreenplay
  45. 1935Without RegretWriter
  46. 1935College ScandalScreenplay
  47. 1935Enter MadameWriter
  48. 1931Secrets of a SecretaryStory
  49. 1926Risky BusinessStory
  50. 1925Tomorrow's LoveStory