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“Brackett’s diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink .” — Newsweek Screenwriter Charles Brackett is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as “the happiest couple in Hollywood,” collaborating on such classics as The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard . He was also a perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry, and in this annotated collection of writings from dozens of Brackett’s unpublished diaries, film historian Anthony Slide clarifies Brackett's critical contribution to Wilder’s films and enriches our knowledge of Wilder’s achievements in writing, direction, and style. Brackett’s diaries re-create the initial meetings of the talent responsible for Ninotchka , Hold Back the Dawn , Ball of Fir e, The Major and the Minor , Five Graves to Cairo , The Lost Weekend , and Sunset Boulevard , recounting the breakthroughs and the breakdowns that ultimately forced these collaborators to part ways. In addition to a portrait of Wilder, this is rare view of a producer who was a president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Screen Writers Guild, a New Yorker drama critic,

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Author

Brackett, Charles;Slide, Anthony;Wilder, Billy

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231167086

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Performing Arts, Art

Rating

3.56 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13