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- He practised law for several years, before commencing work as drama critic for The New Yorker (1925-29), in addition to submitting short stories to The Saturday Evening Post.
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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.
Aug 7, 2016 · Brackett had become a screenwriter even before he moved to Los Angeles, selling and then adapting some of his stories for fairly forgettable films such as Risky Business (1926) and Pointed Heels (1929).
In 1932, he signed a writing contract with Paramount and the ten or so pictures he worked on before joining forces with Billy Wilder are mostly forgettable. His first collaboration with Wilder was the screenplay for Bluebeard's Eighth Wife , directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
He practised law for several years, before commencing work as drama critic for The New Yorker (1925-29), in addition to submitting short stories to The Saturday Evening Post. In 1932, Brackett left for Hollywood as a screenwriter.
- November 26, 1892
- March 9, 1969
He practised law for several years, before commencing work as drama critic for The New Yorker (1925-29), in addition to submitting short stories to The Saturday Evening Post. In 1932, Brackett left for Hollywood as a screenwriter.
- January 1, 1
- Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- January 1, 1
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
American writer/producer Charles Brackett followed in the tradition of his father, a New York legislator, by attending Harvard University.
