Charles Brackett
Nascimento : 1892-11-26, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Morte : 1969-03-09
História
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.
Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
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As aventuras da expedição liderada pelo Professor Linderbrook rumo ao centro da Terra. Também são membros do grupo um estudante de astronomia Alec e a viúva de um colega. Perigos como sequestro, morte, sabotagem preparada por um explorador rival, entre outros, espreitam pelo caminho.
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As aventuras da expedição liderada pelo Professor Linderbrook rumo ao centro da Terra. Também são membros do grupo um estudante de astronomia Alec e a viúva de um colega. Perigos como sequestro, morte, sabotagem preparada por um explorador rival, entre outros, espreitam pelo caminho.
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Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.
Producer
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
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O físico Bill Beck se casa com Julie, recepcionista de um médico. Após cinco anos de um casamento feliz, ela descobre que tem uma doença cardíaca grave. Temendo deixar Bill sozinho por causa de sua morte prematura, decide adotar Hitty, uma doce órfã.
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Three strangers embark on a life-changing journey on a fateful bus ride. As the road presents challenges, each character faces his or her own shortcomings, not knowing where life will lead next.
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Nancy Fallon gets her teenage daughter back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.
Producer
A história verídica de uma inglesa, Anna Leonowens, que vai ao Sião para tornar-se professora da corte real em 1860. Apesar de ela logo se desentender com o teimoso monarca, com o passar do tempo, Anna e o Rei deixam de tentar mudar um ao outro e começam a se entender. Refilmagem de 'Anna e o Rei do Sião (1946)' e refilmado em 'Anna e o Rei (1999)'.
Producer
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
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Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
Producer
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.
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A rainha Elizabeth I se apaixona pelo cobiçado Sir Walter Raleigh. Além de lidar com os problemas do reino, a rainha ainda deve disputar a atração do rapaz com uma bela mulher mais nova.
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Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.
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Três americanos dirigem-se de navio à volta do cabo para os campos de ouro da Califórnia quando são colocados em terra durante várias semanas numa pequena aldeia mexicana adormecida. Enquanto lá estão, é-lhes oferecido o trabalho de seguir uma senhora até às montanhas infestadas de índios do México para salvar o marido das senhoras presas preso por um desmoronamento na sua mina de ouro. Para o trabalho são-lhes prometidos dois mil dólares cada. Enquanto cada uma contempla as suas próprias hipóteses de conseguir a dama e/ou a mina de ouro, se conseguirem sobreviver para desfrutar dela.
Producer
1912. Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck), uma socialite, embarca no Titanic acompanhada pelos filhos, Annette (Audrey Dalton) e Norman (Harper Carter), e deixa para trás o marido, Richard Ward Sturges (Clifton Webb). Julia está cansada do estilo sofisticado do seu esposo e planeja viver nos Estados Unidos com os filhos. Richard arruma um jeito de embarcar no último minuto e descobre que Julia quer se divorciar dele. Eles acabam discutindo e coisas duras são ditas, mas quando o Titanic bate num iceberg e começa a afundar todos os problemas deles se tornam bem pequenos.
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1912. Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck), uma socialite, embarca no Titanic acompanhada pelos filhos, Annette (Audrey Dalton) e Norman (Harper Carter), e deixa para trás o marido, Richard Ward Sturges (Clifton Webb). Julia está cansada do estilo sofisticado do seu esposo e planeja viver nos Estados Unidos com os filhos. Richard arruma um jeito de embarcar no último minuto e descobre que Julia quer se divorciar dele. Eles acabam discutindo e coisas duras são ditas, mas quando o Titanic bate num iceberg e começa a afundar todos os problemas deles se tornam bem pequenos.
Producer
George e Rose Loomis estão em lua de mel em Niagara Falls, mas ele não sabe que sua infiel mulher planeja o seu assassinato forjando um falso suicídio, com a ajuda do amante a quem pede que mate o seu marido.
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George e Rose Loomis estão em lua de mel em Niagara Falls, mas ele não sabe que sua infiel mulher planeja o seu assassinato forjando um falso suicídio, com a ajuda do amante a quem pede que mate o seu marido.
Producer
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
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A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
Writer
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
Producer
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her son and his new bride. When Ellen arrives, her daughter-in-law mistakes her for the maid she has hired for a big party they are throwing. Rather than cause any embarrassment, Ellen goes along with the charade, which leads to many complications.
Himself (uncredited)
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.
Producer
Uma estrela veterana do cinema mudo se recusa a aceitar que seu reinado acabou. Então ela contrata um jovem roteirista para ajudá-la a reconquistar o sucesso. O escritor acredita que pode manipular a atriz, mas percebe que está redondamente enganado.
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Uma estrela veterana do cinema mudo se recusa a aceitar que seu reinado acabou. Então ela contrata um jovem roteirista para ajudá-la a reconquistar o sucesso. O escritor acredita que pode manipular a atriz, mas percebe que está redondamente enganado.
Writer
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Producer
After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.
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After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the estate of Miss Tatlock's millions.
Producer
Uma congressista (Jean Arthur) vai à Berlim destruída pela Segunda Guerra Mundial, para verificar o moral das tropas norte-americanas. Durante a inspeção, um capitão (John Lund) tenta seduzi-la para que ela não descubra seu envolvimento com uma cantora alemã (Marlene Dietrich), suspeita de ser simpatizante nazista.
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Uma congressista (Jean Arthur) vai à Berlim destruída pela Segunda Guerra Mundial, para verificar o moral das tropas norte-americanas. Durante a inspeção, um capitão (John Lund) tenta seduzi-la para que ela não descubra seu envolvimento com uma cantora alemã (Marlene Dietrich), suspeita de ser simpatizante nazista.
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At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
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At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.
Writer
Um bispo tentando construir uma nova catedral pede a Deus uma orientação. Um anjo (Cary Grant) chega, mas a sua ajuda não é sobre a captação de recursos. Henry Brougham é um bispo dedicado à nova construção de uma catedral que será paga pela viúva Agnes Hamilton. Dudley, um anjo, é enviado pelo céu para ajudá-lo. Mas Dudley acaba sendo tão prestativo e bondoso para todos que Henry acaba se sentindo ameaçado.
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Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial a menina de uma pequena cidade, Josephine Norris, tem um filho ilegítimo com um piloto itinerante. Após um esquema para adotá-lo acaba entregando-o a outra família, ela se dedica a amá-lo de longe.
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Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial a menina de uma pequena cidade, Josephine Norris, tem um filho ilegítimo com um piloto itinerante. Após um esquema para adotá-lo acaba entregando-o a outra família, ela se dedica a amá-lo de longe.
Producer
Em Nova York, Don Birman (Ray Milland) sonhava ser escritor, mas não consegue seu objetivo por estar sofrendo de um bloqueio. Assim, é completamente dominado pelo álcool e passa a ter como única meta obter dinheiro para continuar se embriagando, se esquecendo que as pessoas que o rodeiam sofrem por vê-lo neste estado e tudo fazem para afastá-lo da bebida. Mas enquanto a namorada, Helen St. James (Jane Wyman), editora de uma revista, quer ajudá-lo, ele bebe cada vez mais.
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Em Nova York, Don Birman (Ray Milland) sonhava ser escritor, mas não consegue seu objetivo por estar sofrendo de um bloqueio. Assim, é completamente dominado pelo álcool e passa a ter como única meta obter dinheiro para continuar se embriagando, se esquecendo que as pessoas que o rodeiam sofrem por vê-lo neste estado e tudo fazem para afastá-lo da bebida. Mas enquanto a namorada, Helen St. James (Jane Wyman), editora de uma revista, quer ajudá-lo, ele bebe cada vez mais.
Director
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
Producer
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
Associate Producer
O Exército Britânico, retirando-se à frente do vitorioso Rommel, deixa um único sobrevivente na fronteira egípcio que encontra refúgio em um remoto hotel no deserto. Ele é ajudado pelo proprietário do hotel, apesar dos protestos da camareira francesa, com medo da chegada iminente de Rommel e os alemães. Para sobreviver John assume a identidade do garçom do hotel, recentemente falecido.
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O Exército Britânico, retirando-se à frente do vitorioso Rommel, deixa um único sobrevivente na fronteira egípcio que encontra refúgio em um remoto hotel no deserto. Ele é ajudado pelo proprietário do hotel, apesar dos protestos da camareira francesa, com medo da chegada iminente de Rommel e os alemães. Para sobreviver John assume a identidade do garçom do hotel, recentemente falecido.
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Susan Applegate, tired of New York after one year and twenty-five jobs, decides to return to her home town in Iowa. Discovering she hasn't enough money for the train fare, Susan disguises herself as a twelve-year-old and travels for half the price. Caught out by the conductors, she hides in the compartment of Major Philip Kirby, a military school instructor who takes the "child" under his wing.
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Oito professores estão voltados exclusivamente para a elaboração de um enciclopédia. Nenhum deles é casado, pois acredita-se que ter uma família pode ser prejudicial para o andamento dos trabalhos. Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), o mais novo dos professores, tem como função preparar a parte de literatura inglesa e quer incluir no seu trabalho as mais variadas formas de gíria. Assim anda entre a população fazendo anotações e encontra em Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), uma sexy cantora de boate, uma fonte inesgotável de termos popularescos. Inicialmente ela não colabora, mas ela namora um gângster, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), que foi solto por falta de provas. A Promotoria pretende detê-la para interrogatório até conseguir provas contra Joe, então O'Shea tem a idéia de se hospedar na casa onde os professores estão reunidos, usando o pretexto de que vai colaborar na enciclopédia, pois a polícia não a procurará em uma casa habitada por intelectuais.
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Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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Claudette Colbert faz o papel de uma jornalista americana baseada em Paris que envia para seu jornal notícias sobre a Guerra Civil Espanhola e se envolve com um aviador aventureiro que luta do lado dos republicanos (o papel de Ray Milland).
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Nina Yakushova (Greta Garbo), comissária do governo soviético, é mandada a Paris para averiguar o comportamento de três representantes do governo que têm como missão negociar uma jóia. Aos poucos sucumbe ao capitalismo e a Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas), um galanteador francês que está apaixonado por ela.
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Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
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An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.
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Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'
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American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
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Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with Lord Priory. He meets her the next day at the riding path, but she quickly loses him. He searches all over for her, not knowing that his father's hopeful fiancée is her Aunt. As his caricature work suffers as he searches, he is fired from his paper. But he makes a comeback with the comics 'Rags to Riches' which is based upon the Pett's. But this upsets the Pett's so much that they go back to New York, and he follows, being careful not to let them know that he is the one who draws the strip that parodies them.
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A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the murder leads to a tenure as a temporary FBI agent.
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It is California in 1852 that only recently being surrendered by Mexico to the United States and admitted into the union. Most of the land-owners of California were the descendants of the Dons who had colonized it a hundred years before and whose title deeds bore the signature and seal of a long-dead Spanish king. But, by a loop-hole in the law, the title-deeds of the Dons could not be recognized, and this opened the door of organized gangs of land-grabbers, such as the one led by Joe Kincaid, to operate with a prime excuse for legitimate plunder and robbery. In most cases the law was unable to cope with the situation. Then Rosita Castro, the daughter of Don Pasqual Castro, masked and disguised as a man, organized a band of vigilantes to fight against the tyranny of the outlaws, aided by an undercover federal agent, Jim Kearney.
Adaptation
During WW1, the destinies of British officers Michael Andrews and John Stevenson seem intertwined on the battle front as much as on a more personal level.
Writer
In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to England. Later, believing that her new husband is dead, she marries a wealthy man. Her new husband's ex-girlfriend, learning of the woman's past and that her first husband is indeed alive, threatens to expose the new wife as a bigamist.
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Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.
Story
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.
Story
Fay Wray plays a beautiful showgirl who falls for a rich Park Avenue guy played by Phillips Holmes. William Powell is a producer in love with Miss Wray, but he won't use his influences to take any advantages.... as usual, he's a perfect gentleman.
Pointed Heels was supposed to have been a vehicle for "boop-boop-a-doop" girl Helen Kane, but by the time the film was released, Kane's role was reduced to a supporting part.
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A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived devices and bringing in other candidates more to her liking.
