Charles Brackett
































Charles William Brackett
Born
(1892-11-26)November 26, 1892

Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.
Died March 9, 1969(1969-03-09) (aged 76)

Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Alma mater Williams College
Occupation Writer, screenwriter
Years active 1925–1962
Awards
Best Original Screenplay
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1953 Titanic
Best Adapted Screenplay
1945 The Lost Weekend
Academy Honorary Award
1959 Lifetime Achievement
WGA Award – Best Written Drama
1950 Sunset Boulevard

Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his long collaboration with Billy Wilder.




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Marriages


  • 3 Death


  • 4 Partial filmography


  • 5 Award and Nominations


    • 5.1 Academy Awards




  • 6 External links


  • 7 References





Life and career


Brackett was born November 26, 1892 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 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 from 1925-29. He wrote five novels: The Counsel of the Ungodly (1920), Week-End (1925), That Last Infirmity (1926), American Colony (1929),[1] and Entirely Surrounded (1934).


Brackett was president of the Screen Writers Guild (1938–1939). He was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1949 through 1955. Brackett either wrote or produced over 40 films during his career, 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.


From 1936-50, Brackett worked with Billy Wilder as his collaborator on thirteen movies, including The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), which won Academy Awards for their screenplays. The duo's professional partnership ended in 1950, after the completion of Sunset Boulevard. Brackett then 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.



Marriages


Brackett married Elizabeth Barrows Fletcher, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, on June 2, 1919, in Indianapolis, Indiana. They had two daughters, Alexandra Corliss Brackett, Mrs. Larmore (1920–1965) and Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett (1922–1997). Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett died on June 7, 1948. In 1953, Brackett married his sister-in-law (Elizabeth's sister, Lillian Fletcher); that union was childless.[2]



Death


Charles Brackett died on March 9, 1969, aged 76, in Beverly Hills, California.[3] His diaries covering the years 1932 until the breakup with Wilder were edited by Anthony Slide under the title It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age (Columbia University Press, 2014).



Partial filmography





  • Tomorrow's Love (1925) – writer; based on his own story Interlocutory


  • Risky Business (1926) – based on his own story Pearls Before Cecily


  • Pointed Heels (1929) – based on his story[citation needed]


  • Secrets of a Secretary (1931) – based on his story[citation needed]


  • College Scandal (1935) – writer


  • Without Regret (1935) – writer


  • The Last Outpost (1935) – writer


  • Rose of the Rancho (1936) – writer


  • Woman Trap (1936) – writer


  • Piccadilly Jim (1936) – writer


  • Live, Love and Learn (1937) – writer


  • Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)* – writer


  • What a Life (1939)* – writer


  • Ninotchka (1939)* – writer


  • Arise, My Love (1940)* – writer


  • Hold Back the Dawn (1941)* – writer


  • Ball of Fire (1941)* – writer


  • The Major and the Minor (1942)* – writer


  • Five Graves to Cairo (1943)* – writer, producer


  • The Uninvited (1944) – producer


  • The Lost Weekend (1945)* – producer, writer


  • To Each His Own (1946) – writer, producer


  • A Foreign Affair (1948)* – writer, producer


  • The Emperor Waltz (1948)* – writer, producer


  • Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) – writer, producer


  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)* – writer, producer


  • Edge of Doom (1950) – writer (uncredited)


  • The Mating Season (1951) – writer, producer


  • The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951) – writer, producer


  • Niagara (1953) – writer, producer


  • Titanic (1953) – writer, producer


  • Woman's World (1954) – producer


  • Garden of Evil (1954) – producer


  • The Virgin Queen (1955) – producer


  • The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) – writer, producer


  • Teenage Rebel (1956) – writer, producer


  • The King and I (1956) – producer


  • D-Day the Sixth of June (1956) – producer


  • The Wayward Bus (1957) – producer


  • The Gift of Love (1958) – producer


  • Ten North Frederick (1958) – producer


  • The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959) – producer


  • Blue Denim (1959) – producer


  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) – writer, producer


  • High Time (1960) – producer


  • State Fair (1962) – producer



("*" indicates collaboration with Billy Wilder)



Award and Nominations



Academy Awards























































































Year
 Category
 Film
 Result
 Shared with

1939
Best Adapted Screenplay
Ninotchka
 Nominated
Billy Wilder & Walter Reisch

1941
 Best Adapted Screenplay
Hold Back the Dawn
 Nominated
Billy Wilder

1945
Best Picture
The Lost Weekend
 Won
 N/A

1945
 Best Adapted Screenplay
 The Lost Weekend
 Won
Billy Wilder

1946
Best Story
To Each His Own
 Nominated

1948
 Best Adapted Screenplay
A Foreign Affair
 Nominated
Billy Wilder & Richard L. Breen

1950
 Best Picture
Sunset Boulevard
 Nominated
 N/A

1950
Best Original Screenplay
 Sunset Boulevard
 Won
Billy Wilder & D. M. Marshman Jr.

1953
 Best Original Screenplay
Titanic
 Won
Richard L. Breen & Walter Reisch

1956
 Best Picture
The King and I
 Nominated
 N/A

1957
Honorary Award
 N/A
 Won
 N/A


External links




  • Charles Brackett on IMDb


  • Charles Brackett papers at the Margaret Herrick Library



References





  1. ^ See Drewey Wayne Gunn, Gay American Novels, 1870-1970: A Reader's Guide (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016), 21-22.


  2. ^ Hopper, H. (December 27, 1953). Charlie Brackett marries sister of his first wife. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File); accessed January 18, 2016.


  3. ^ "Charles Brackett Dies at 77; Made Oscar-Winning Movies. 'Sunset Boulevard,' 'The Lost Weekend' and 'Titanic' among his successes". The New York Times. March 10, 1969. Retrieved January 2, 2011. Charles Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, NY, and graduated in 1915 from Williams College, where he was editor of the literary monthly and a member of….mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}










Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by
Jean Hersholt
President of Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences
1949–1955
 Succeeded by
George Seaton









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