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Which films did Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett write together before Wilder became a director?
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Billy Wilder in a promotional photograph for Sunset Boulevard (1950), which he directed.
Before Billy Wilder began his career as a director, he and Charles Brackett collaborated as screenwriters on several notable films:
- Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938), directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- Midnight (1939), directed by Mitchell Leisen
- Ninotchka (1939), directed by Ernst Lubitsch
- Ball of Fire (1941), directed by Howard Hawks
- Hold Back the Dawn (1941), directed by Mitchell Leisen1