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After curating a 2013 program called Strange Magic for Cinematheque of all the films written together, then eventually produced and directed by the Brackett/Wilder team, I am currently curating a follow up Cinematheque program selection slated for 2024: Double Solitaire: The Unlikely Cinema of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. It will showcase double-features of many of the films they went on to make separately after they broke up their fruitful but volatile partnership.
Jul 5, 2024 · Sunset Boulevard. Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard, American film noir, released in 1950, that is often cited as one of Hollywood ’s greatest films, especially noted for Gloria Swanson ’s portrayal of a fading silent-film star. The movie is named after the iconic street ...
A drama critic for THE NEW YORKER with several published novels to his name, Brackett signed on as staff writer with Paramount Pictures in 1935. His screenplays were generally unexceptional until, in 1938, he teamed up with Billy Wilder. The effective combination of Brackett producing, Wilder...
Brackett, on the other hand, was very definitely of a more sentimental nature and the work he wrote and produced without Wilder proves this. His best work without Wilder was the extremely romantic women's picture To Each His Own , the sensuous marital suspenser Niagara , and the melodramatic Titanic , which earned him, and Reisch, Academy Awards.
Charles Brackett. Charles William Brackett ( Saratoga Springs, Nueva York, 26 de noviembre de 1892 - Los Ángeles (California), 9 de marzo de 1969) fue un novelista estadounidense que trabajó también como guionista y productor cinematográfico . Charles Brackett era hijo de Edgar Truman Brackett, abogado y banquero que fue miembro del Senado ...
Jan 8, 2020 · By the early 1940s, Billy Wilder had written several films with Charles Brackett, and he would write several more, but for Double Indemnity — a tale of murderous infidelity — Wilder would have ...
Sunset Boulevard: Directed by Billy Wilder. With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson. A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
