Charles Brackett
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Howard HawksFilms of the 1940s…of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks’s Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young, and Arthur Kennedy as part of the…
Read More…of Fire (1941), written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, was a well-conceived romantic comedy centred on Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The patriotic Air Force (1943) transposed Hawks’s Air Corps experience and men-at-work ethos to World War II, with John Garfield, Gig Young, and Arthur Kennedy as part of the…
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Ernst LubitschFilms of the mid- and late 1930s of Ernst Lubitsch…Wife (1938), but, despite a Charles Brackett–Billy Wilder script, it also failed at the box office, and Paramount finally let Lubitsch go to MGM.
Read More…Wife (1938), but, despite a Charles Brackett–Billy Wilder script, it also failed at the box office, and Paramount finally let Lubitsch go to MGM.
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Billy WilderEarly life and work…former New Yorker theatre critic Charles Brackett. After first collaborating on Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938), they wrote such romantic-comedy gems as Mitchell Leisen’s Midnight (1939), Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939), and Howard Hawks’s Ball of Fire
Read More…former New Yorker theatre critic Charles Brackett. After first collaborating on Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938), they wrote such romantic-comedy gems as Mitchell Leisen’s Midnight (1939), Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939), and Howard Hawks’s Ball of Fire
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