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Charles Brackett
Writer 1892 - 1969

Charles Brackett

Saratoga Springs, New York, 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... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

23 titles
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Henry Levin 1959 2h 12m 7.2

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Teenage Rebel

Teenage Rebel

Edmund Goulding 1956 1h 34m

Ginger Rogers get her teenage daughter (Betty Lou Keim) back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

Richard Fleischer 1955 1h 49m 7.0

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing is the true story of Evelyn Nesbit (Dame Joan Collins), a beautiful showgirl caught in a love triangle with elderly architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and eccentric young millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Farley Granger).

Titanic

Titanic

Jean Negulesco 1953 1h 38m 7.0

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Niagara

Niagara

Henry Hathaway 1953 1h 32m 7.2

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man.

The Model and the Marriage Broker

The Model and the Marriage Broker

George Cukor 1951 1h 43m 7.0

A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

The Mating Season

The Mating Season

Mitchell Leisen 1951 1h 41m 7.0

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.

Sunset Blvd.

Sunset Blvd.

Billy Wilder 1950 1h 50m 9.0

Director Billy Wilder is ice cold in his captivating Hollywood drama Sunset Blvd. A screenwriter begins an affair with a silent film actress who thinks she’s at the top of her field...

Edge of Doom

Edge of Doom

Mark Robson 1950 1h 39m 6.0

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

The Emperor Waltz

The Emperor Waltz

Billy Wilder 1948 1h 46m 6.0

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.

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair

Billy Wilder 1948 1h 56m 7.6

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her

To Each His Own

To Each His Own

Mitchell Leisen 1946 2h 2m 7.0

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

The Lost Weekend

The Lost Weekend

Billy Wilder 1945 1h 41m 8.3

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Five Graves to Cairo

Five Graves to Cairo

Billy Wilder 1943 1h 36m 7.0

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor

Billy Wilder 1942 1h 40m 7.0

A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn

Mitchell Leisen 1941 1h 56m 7.5

A Romanian gigolo tries to enter the US from Mexico by marrying an American.

Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

Howard Hawks 1941 1h 51m 7.7

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while residing in a Manhattan mansion take in a sassy nightclub singer who the police need to help them bring down her mob-boss lover.

Arise, My Love

Arise, My Love

Mitchell Leisen 1940 1h 50m

A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka

Ernst Lubitsch 1939 1h 50m 8.1

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Midnight

Midnight

Mitchell Leisen 1939 1h 34m 7.0

An unemployed showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian society.

That Certain Age

That Certain Age

Edward Ludwig 1938 1h 35m

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.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Ernst Lubitsch 1938 1h 25m 7.6

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Secrets of a Secretary

Secrets of a Secretary

George Abbott 1931 1h 11m

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

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