Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as 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 ...

State Fair
1962
Producer
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking....

High Time
1960
Producer
Despite the dissapproval of his grown son and daughter, 51-year-old widdower and wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard decides it's 'high time' to he ge...

Journey to the Center of the Earth
1959
Screenplay, Producer
An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Blue Denim
1959
Producer
Two naive high-school students must deal with the unexpected consequences after a night of passion.

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
1959
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 Harrisb...

Ten North Frederick
1958
Producer
After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by...

The Gift of Love
1958
Producer
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.

The Wayward Bus
1957
Producer
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 shortcom...

Teenage Rebel
1956
Writer
Nancy Fallon gets her teenage daughter back from her ex-husband when she remarries and must win her love.

The King and I
1956
Producer
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...

D-Day the Sixth of June
1956
Producer
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
1955
Producer, Screenplay
Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but u...

The Virgin Queen
1955
Producer
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Woman's World
1954
Producer
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 indus...

Garden of Evil
1954
Producer
A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband from Apaches.

Titanic
1953
Producer, Screenplay
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxu...

Niagara
1953
Writer, Producer
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who a...

The Model and the Marriage Broker
1951
Writer, Producer
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

The Mating Season
1951
Writer, 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 daugh...
The Screen Writer
1950
as Self (uncredited)
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.

Sunset Boulevard
1950
Producer, Screenplay
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Edge of Doom
1950
Writer
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

Miss Tatlock's Millions
1948
Screenplay, 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 esta...

A Foreign Affair
1948
Screenplay, Producer
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.

The Emperor Waltz
1948
Writer, Producer
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, who...

The Bishop's Wife
1947
Additional Writing
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily...

To Each His Own
1946
Story, Screenplay, Producer
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 ...

The Lost Weekend
1945
Screenplay, Producer
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Eva...

Skirmish on the Home Front
1944
Director
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.

The Uninvited
1944
Producer
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is hau...

Five Graves to Cairo
1943
Screenplay, Associate Producer
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He a...

The Major and the Minor
1942
Writer
Returning to her hometown from New York, Susan Applegate learns that she hasn't enough for the train fare and disguises herself as a twelve-year-old t...

Ball of Fire
1941
Screenplay
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is...

Hold Back the Dawn
1941
Writer
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 ...

Arise, My Love
1940
Screenplay
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.

Ninotchka
1939
Screenplay
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

What a Life
1939
Screenplay
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Midnight
1939
Screenplay
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

That Certain Age
1938
Writer
Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send h...

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938
Screenplay
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a ...

Live, Love and Learn
1937
Screenplay
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...

Piccadilly Jim
1936
Writer
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 L...

Woman Trap
1936
Story
A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the m...

Rose of the Rancho
1936
Screenplay
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 C...

The Last Outpost
1935
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 le...

Without Regret
1935
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 de...

College Scandal
1935
Screenplay
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...

Enter Madame
1935
Writer
Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

Secrets of a Secretary
1931
Story
Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

Pointed Heels
1929
Short 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 Wr...

Risky Business
1926
Story
A domineering mother sets out to break up the romance and possible marriage of her daughter, Cecily Stoughton, with Ted Pyncheon by several contrived ...