Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen...
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He then moved to Hollywood in 1934, and had a major hit when he, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award-nominated...
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Niagara (1953 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
thriller film directed by Henry Hathaway, produced by Charles Brackett, and written by Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch. The film stars Marilyn...
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Robert Redford (redirect from Charles Redford)
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA...
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The Bishop's Wife (category Films with screenplays by Charles Brackett)
In early previews, audiences disliked the film, so Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett made uncredited rewrites. Though the premiere of The Bishop's Wife...
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Sunset Boulevard (film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through...
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Frank Partos was brought in by his friend, associate producer Charles Brackett. Brackett wanted to have the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock but could...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
of the same name by Jules Verne, it was written for the screen by Charles Brackett (who also produced) and Walter Reisch. Bernard Herrmann wrote the film...
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little knowledge of English. In 1938, he began collaborating with Charles Brackett on screenplays with Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy Bluebeard's Eighth...
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To Each His Own (1946 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry. A young woman bears a child out of wedlock and has...
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Brackett (born 1944) American politician Brett Brackett, American football player Bruce Godfrey Brackett (1915–1943), American naval aviator Charles Brackett...
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State Fair (1962 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
1960 with Rodgers and Hammerstein slated to write new songs for it. Charles Brackett was named producer and Walter Lang was named director. It would be...
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The Corliss–Brackett House, also known as the Charles Brackett House, is an historic house in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island...
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Titanic (1953 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
Narrator (uncredited) Walter Reisch says Darryl F. Zanuck called him and Charles Brackett in and told them, "I have Clifton Webb under contract, and we have...
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officially recognized him as the winner several years later. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman...
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The Lost Weekend (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
originally wanted Jose Ferrer for the role of Don, but he turned it down. Charles Brackett's first choice for playing Helen was Olivia de Havilland, but she was...
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Ball of Fire (category Films with screenplays by Charles Brackett)
version of the 1869 song "Sweet Genevieve". The script was written by Charles Brackett, Thomas Monroe, and Billy Wilder from a short story titled "From A...
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The Mating Season (film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
film directed by Mitchell Leisen, and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, and Walter Reisch, based on the...
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persuades her to become his eighth wife. Despite the clever screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, and solid performances by Cooper and Colbert, American...
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Ninotchka (category Films with screenplays by Charles Brackett)
starring Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Walter Reisch, based on a story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka...
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Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957) Maurice Chevalier (1958) Buster Keaton / Lee...
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(The Lost Weekend, shared with Charles Brackett), and two for Original Screenplay (Sunset Boulevard, shared with Brackett and D. M. Marshman Jr., and The...
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Zanuck Lex Barker and Arlene Dahl (Presenters: Best Art Direction) Charles Brackett (Presenter: Honorary Awards) Ralph Bunche (Presenter: Best Motion Picture)...
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Charlie Chaplin (redirect from Charles Chaplin)
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent...
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work in the films of John Carpenter, especially his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Carpenter's 1978 movie Halloween. He reprised this role in the 1981...
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My Way Leo McCarey Leo McCarey 1945 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder Charles Brackett 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler Samuel Goldwyn 1947...
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Uninvited was directed by Lewis Allen and was a big success. Producer Charles Brackett wrote that filming with Russell proved difficult; he said that she...
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The Major and the Minor (category Films with screenplays by Charles Brackett)
film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay credited to Wilder and Charles Brackett is "suggested by" the 1923 play Connie Goes Home by Edward Childs Carpenter...
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The Emperor Waltz (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
and starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. Written by Wilder and Charles Brackett, the film is about a brash American gramophone salesman in Austria...
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The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
directed by Richard Fleischer from a screenplay by Walter Reisch and Charles Brackett, and starring Joan Collins, Ray Milland, and Farley Granger. The CinemaScope...
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