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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
    by De Luxe, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film, produced by Charles Brackett and directed by Henry Levin, stars James Mason, Pat Boone, and Arlene...
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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 and Charles Brackett. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood. The...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Charles Boyer (French: [ʃaʁl bwaje]; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and...
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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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  • Woman's World (1954 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
    script. In January 1954 producer Charles Brackett announced the team of Lindsay and Crouse would write the script. Brackett wanted to cast six stars and aimed...
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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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  • A Foreign Affair (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
    starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and John Lund. The screenplay by Charles Brackett, Wilder and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted...
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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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  • Brackett (born 1944) American politician Brett Brackett, American football player Bruce Godfrey Brackett (1915–1943), American naval aviator Charles Brackett...
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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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  • 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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  • Five Graves to Cairo (category Films with screenplays by Charles Brackett)
    "As though this fanciful story weren't sufficiently hard to take, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, a couple of old-hand Paramount wags, have dressed...
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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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    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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  • 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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    (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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    team of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett. Wilder had wanted Katherine Hepburn or Barbara Stanwyck for the female lead but Brackett had been impressed by...
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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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    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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  • The King and I (1956 film) (category Films produced by Charles Brackett)
    made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Walter Lang and produced by Charles Brackett and Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is based on the...
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