Charles William Brackett was an American screenwriter and film producer.
10 Facts About Charles Brackett
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Charles Brackett joined the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War I Charles Brackett was awarded the French Medal of Honor.
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Charles Brackett was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and Vanity Fair, and a drama critic for The New Yorker.
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Charles Brackett wrote five novels: The Counsel of the Ungodly, Week-End, That Last Infirmity, American Colony, and Entirely Surrounded.
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Charles Brackett was a president of the Screen Writers Guild and for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Charles Brackett received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1958.
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Charles Brackett's diaries covering his screenwriting and social life from 1932 to 1949 were edited by Anthony Slide into Slide's book It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age.
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Charles Brackett married Elizabeth Barrows Fletcher, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, on June 2,1919.
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In 1953, Charles Brackett married Lillian Fletcher, the sister of his first wife.
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Charles Brackett was a Republican who voted for Alf Landon in 1936 and supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 United States presidential election.