Charles Brackett

Charles Brackett

1892-11-26 Saratoga Springs, New York, USA 52 Credits

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 ...

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And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

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

State Fair

1962

Producer

4.9
Producing

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

High Time

1960

Producer

5.9
Producing

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

Journey to the Center of the Earth

1959

Screenplay, Producer

6.9
Writing Producing

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

Blue Denim

Blue Denim

1959

Producer

5.2
Producing

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

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker

1959

Producer

6.0
Producing

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

Ten North Frederick

1958

Producer

6.9
Producing

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

The Gift of Love

1958

Producer

7.2
Producing

Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.

The Wayward Bus

The Wayward Bus

1957

Producer

5.8
Producing

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

Teenage Rebel

1956

Writer

6.5
Writing

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

The King and I

The King and I

1956

Producer

7.1
Producing

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

D-Day the Sixth of June

1956

Producer

5.4
Producing

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

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing

1955

Producer, Screenplay

6.2
Producing Writing

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

The Virgin Queen

1955

Producer

7.1
Producing

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

Woman's World

1954

Producer

7.1
Producing

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

Garden of Evil

1954

Producer

6.1
Producing

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

Titanic

Titanic

1953

Producer, Screenplay

6.6
Producing Writing

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

Niagara

1953

Writer, Producer

6.8
Writing Producing

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

The Model and the Marriage Broker

1951

Writer, Producer

6.4
Writing Producing

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

The Mating Season

The Mating Season

1951

Writer, Producer

6.6
Writing Producing

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)

Acting

This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard

1950

Producer, Screenplay

8.3
Producing Writing

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Edge of Doom

Edge of Doom

1950

Writer

5.9
Writing

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

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Miss Tatlock's Millions

1948

Screenplay, Producer

5.9
Writing Producing

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

A Foreign Affair

1948

Screenplay, Producer

7.1
Writing Producing

In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.

The Emperor Waltz

The Emperor Waltz

1948

Writer, Producer

5.9
Writing Producing

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

The Bishop's Wife

1947

Additional Writing

7.0

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

To Each His Own

1946

Story, Screenplay, Producer

6.8
Writing Producing

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

The Lost Weekend

1945

Screenplay, Producer

7.6
Writing Producing

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

Skirmish on the Home Front

1944

Director

Directing

Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.

The Uninvited

The Uninvited

1944

Producer

6.9
Producing

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

Five Graves to Cairo

1943

Screenplay, Associate Producer

6.9
Writing Producing

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

The Major and the Minor

1942

Writer

7.0
Writing

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

Ball of Fire

1941

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

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

Hold Back the Dawn

1941

Writer

6.7
Writing

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

Arise, My Love

1940

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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

Ninotchka

Ninotchka

1939

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

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

What a Life

1939

Screenplay

Writing

Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.

Midnight

Midnight

1939

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

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

That Certain Age

That Certain Age

1938

Writer

5.1
Writing

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

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

1938

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

Live, Love and Learn

1937

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

Piccadilly Jim

1936

Writer

6.5
Writing

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

Woman Trap

1936

Story

Writing

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

Rose of the Rancho

1936

Screenplay

Writing

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

The Last Outpost

1935

Adaptation

6.1

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

Without Regret

1935

Writer

Writing

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

College Scandal

1935

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

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

Enter Madame

1935

Writer

5.5
Writing

Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

Secrets of a Secretary

Secrets of a Secretary

1931

Story

5.5
Writing

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

Pointed Heels

Pointed Heels

1929

Short Story

7.2
Writing

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

Risky Business

1926

Story

6.0
Writing

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