#charles brackett

[theaskew]

#movie #film #cinema #American film #American movie #American cinema #Hollywood #classic Hollywood #studio film #studio movie #Sunset Boulevard #Billy Wilder #Gloria Swanson #William Holden #Erich von Stroheim #Charles Brackett #movie poster #film poster #movie trailer #film trailer #Paramount #Paramount Pictures #motion picture

[thebestestwinner]

Top two vote-getters will move on to the next round. See pinned post for all groups!

#best best adapted screenplay tournament #best adapted screenplay #oscars #academy awards #the lost weekend #charles brackett #billy wilder #charles r. jackson #a room with a view #ruth prawer jhabvala #e.m. forster #l.a. confidential #la confidential #curtis hanson #brain helgeland #james ellroy #the treasure of the sierra madre #john huston #b. traven #the life of emile zola #heinz herald #geza herczeg #norman reilly raine #matthew josephson #poll #bracket tournament #polls #brackets

[scenephile]

We didn't need dialog. We had faces.

#sunset boulevard #sunset blvd. #billy wilder #william holden #gloria swanson #charles brackett #joe gillis #norma desmond #scenephile #1950 #film quotes #movie scenes #film scene #movie scene #movie quotes #movie #Black Comedy #film noir

[movie--posters]

#jean arthur #Marlene Dietrich #movie poster #movie posters #billy wilder #millard mitchell #john lund #a foreign affair #movies #posters #40s #post war #film #films #charles brackett #movie

[moviesteve]

The Major and the Minor https://bit.ly/3QTiRuo The Major and the Minor is an elevator pitch movie selling itself on its title. As to what’s in it for the viewer, quite a lot if you like comedy that rides right into inappropriateness. It’s written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and one of the joys of watching this under-regarded 1942 comedy is looking on as two masters of their craft get into one tight spot after another – sometimes deliberately – and then Houdini-like spring free. Maybe when they first came up with the idea Brackett and Wilder didn’t realise that half-price train travel out of New York in the 1940s applied only to the under-12s. Maybe they thought 16 … Read more

#Billy Wilder #Charles Brackett #Ray Milland #Robert Benchley #The Major and the Minor

[streamondemand]

Billy Wilder's WWII thriller 'Five Graves to Cairo' on Criterion Channel

Billy Wilder’s WWII thriller ‘Five Graves to Cairo’ on Criterion Channel

The World War II thriller Five Graves to Cairo (1943) opens with a stark, striking sequence: a lost British tank riding the sand dunes of Africa like an armored Flying Dutchman, the lifeless bodies of the crew swaying with each crest. Until one man wakes up, groggy and confused, and topples out of the tank and into the barren desert when he emerges for fresh air. Franchot Tone plays the sole…

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#1943 #Akim Tamiroff #Anne Baxter #Billy Wilder #Blu-ray #Charles Brackett #Criterion Channel #DVD #Erich von Stroheim #Five Graves to Cairo #Fortunio Bonanova #Franchot Tone #John Seitz #VOD

[brokehorrorfan]

Fright-Rags has released three new Halloween retro-style action figures: Dr. Loomis (with removable coat), Sheriff Brackett (with pistol and flashlight), and Annie (with school books).

Sculpted by Plastic Meatball, each toy stands 3.75" tall and has five points of articulation. They’re packaged on backer cards with art by Justin Osbourn (pictured below). Priced at $20, they’re expected to ship in July.

These characters join the previously released Michael Myers, Laurie, and Lynda, which are back in stock for $20 each.

#halloween #michael myers #john carpenter #horror #donald pleasence #fright rags #toy #gift #plastic meatball #dr. loomis #sam loomis #dr loomis #annie brackett #nancy loomis #charles cyphers

[oldtvlover]

Hey gang,

me again and a new set of Gifs here.

When Johnny complains about emergency vehicles and "Drivers" and gets then caught himself by doing it wrong. Ouch!

Look closely at Gif number two when Johnny's hand takes something from Dr. Brackett's table. Nice, and no one noticed. *hihi*

Enjoy!

P.S.: Will soon start with S3 Gifs, though some episodes are already done. You shall see then.

#emergency! #episode gifset #s02e13 #johnny gage #roy desoto #station 51 #captain hank stanley #mike stoker #chet kelly #marco lopez #rampart cafeteria #dr. kelly brackett #randy's little prank #with taking something from dr. brackett's table #johnny's good ideas for emergency vehicles #yet gets caught himself #officer charles #enjoy!

[writing-good-vibes]

greetings, friends and readers !! 💓📚 i hope you're all making the most of spooky whore autumn !! 😈💓

and as it is that time of year again, i welcome you all to my second annual HALLOWEEN PROMPT FILL !! 👻💀🎃

i'll be accepting prompts from THIS PROMPT LIST from NOW until 24th OCTOBER, so plenty of time for you guys to think and for me to write !! multiple asks are more than welcome, as well as multiple prompts in one !!

*PLEASE REMEMBER TO ADD WHICH CATEGORY YOUR NUMBERED PROMPT IS FROM, THERE ARE BOTH CUTE AND SPOOKY PROMPTS ON THE LIST !!*

CHARACTER LISTS:

the usual brad dourif rogues: charles, jack, tommy, sheriff, doc, grima, billy and tucker.

misc. horror: bo sinclair, vincent sinclair, lester sinclair, otis driftwood and chop top sawyer.

*[if requesting any of the sinclair brothers, please specify is you would like a reader-insert or my usual domestic sibling slices-of-life, the choice is yours !!]*

#brad dourif #bo sinclair #vincent sinclair #charles lee ray #house of wax 2005 #jack dante #grima wormtongue #sheriff brackett #doc cochran #tucker cleveland #billy bibbit #lester sinclair #otis driftwood #chop top sawyer #bo sinclair x reader #vincent sinclair x reader #charles lee ray x reader

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Unkind Philanthropist (3.12, ITC, 1964)

"Do I detect a faint note of hostility in your voice?"

"You do and it wasn't intended to be faint."

"Oh, why?"

"Because I'm one of the few women left in the world who is not remotely interested in the famous Simon Templar."

#the saint #the unkind philanthropist #leslie charteris #1964 #itc #marcus demian #jeremy summers #roger moore #charles farrell #patricia michon #david graham #sarah brackett #garry fulsham #john bloomfield #dawn davis #anthony morton #larry taylor #joan ingram #olive lucius #gerald paris #starts very strong as Brackett's lady lawyer absolutely eviscerates Simon as he's trying to pick her up‚ before the titles have even rolled #alas she of course softens to him eventually‚ but her characterisation (and Brackett's performance) are key to why this episode works so #well. she's easily one of the best female leads the series has had‚ and her partly adversarial relationship with Simon is not only more #convincing and well drawn than the girls who simply fall at his feet‚ it provides genuine chemistry between them for those scenes where he #has finally won her over. it's a curious one this; the Puerto Rican setting immediately rang alarm bells‚ and true to form the show is as #patronising and dismissive as ever in depicting latin america. but this is a surprisingly strong Simon episode; for once it isn't him being #racist‚ and it's fun to see him really invest himself in one of his morally inspired cons for the sheer hell of helping out a local in need #it's fun too to see him meet his match in Brackett‚ or squirm when she catches him in the act of defrauding a bad guy. Simon's very #likeable here‚ with little throwaway lines that are wittier (and kinder) than he often is. idk it's just a pretty good episode for him #even if the larger episode does contain some issues (and a general colonialist vibe)

[mitjalovse]

What am I actually trying to discuss here? I mean, I mentioned two completely different musicians and I attempted to unite them in their propensity for singles, which resulted in the lack of cohesive albums. Well, you can admit there is something there and I can also include Frank Sinatra among the two, since he has a similar issue, though his LPs are not the problem, they're quite coherent. However, they are not really known. For instance – how many have listened the entire collection of song the tune on the link is on? Yes, Sinatra is experienced more through his tunes than the discs these pieces are on. To be honest, this occurs with many of his peers, i.e. they are much more understood through their biggest hits than their whole long plays.

#frank sinatra #strangers in the night album #strangers in the night #bill miller #michel rubini #al casey #bill pitman #glen campbell #tommy tedesco #chuck berghofer #hal blaine #emil richards #eddie brackett jr. #bert kaempfert #charles singleton #eddie snyder #jimmy bowen #60's music #jazz

[theaskew]

Sunset Blvd. Written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder and D.M. Marshman Jr. (Source: Writers Guild of America West)

#movies #film #cinema #Hollywood movie #Hollywood film #Sunset Boulevard #screenplay #Billy Wilder #Charles Brackett #Gloria Swanson #Erich von Stroheim #Norma Desmond #100 Best Screenplays #film script #scriptwriting #screenwriting

[thebestestwinner]

See pinned post for the full bracket!

#best best original screenplay tournament #academy awards #oscars #best original screenplay #dog day afternoon #frank pierson #sunset boulevard #sunset blvd #billy wilder #charles brackett #d.m. marshman jr #bracket tournament #brackets #poll #polls

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

HRH the Princess of Wales in 2023 ♛  

What an interesting year! The Queen of my Heart Princess of Wales' year hinged around the Coronation of King Charles III and she pulled off a truly stunning look at the event itself. She took her family volunteering with the Scouts, met the public twice (x, x), and even met Katie! Her early years work has continued, with the year starting with the Shaping Us: Campaign Launch, meetings with experts including Professor Marc Brackett, and ending with the Early Years Symposium. Catherine has also worked a lot with children and young people in general (x, x, x). This year, Catherine gained three new military positions (Fleet Air Arm, RAF Coningsby, and 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards). She has also undertaken lots of work with the military. She visited both the Welsh and Irish Guards on their national days, and she has joined training days throughout the year (x, x, x). The Princess of Wales has continued to develop her relationships with foreign royal families: she met with the Crown Prince couple of Norway and the Crown Princess Couple of Sweden at Windsor Castle; she met multiple royals at the Heads of State pre-coronation event, including her royal bestie Felipe, whom she also met at Wimbledon; and she joined a huge amount of royals at the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein and Rajwa al Saif. As always, a lot of Catherine's work has been linked to the arts, with a surprise appearance at Eurovision, and re-opening two different museums (x, x). The Princess of Wales continued her role as the Queen of Sports, with multiple Wimbledon appearances (x, x, x), a surprise video with Roger Federer to promote the role of ball boys and girls, multiple Rugby World Cup visits (x, x), an appearance at a 6 Nations match, and several rugby related engagements (x, x, x). Catherine has visited Wales multiple times, Scotland once and a half, and made a truly unexpected podcast appearance, but nothing was as notable as her long-awaited textiles engagements!

#mine #royaltyedit #kate #yearreview

[justbusterkeaton]

Buster’s Cameo in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

“Four old silent movie stars, scornfully dubbed “the waxworks” by a young screenwriter, sit around a table playing bridge. The camera turns from hostess Gloria Swanson to Anna Q. Nilsson and H.B. Warner—two faces only the most recondite of silent film buffs will identify—as they make their bids. Then the camera moves on to Buster’s face, lined beneath thin grey hair, grim and yet still strangely innocent. “Pass,” he says, investing the single word with a weight of stoic discouragement. The camera stays on his face through the next round of bidding, and when his turn comes he repeats his monosyllabic line, now with the wistful air of a poor child pretending he doesn’t mind that he isn’t getting a Christmas present.

Director Billy Wilder, a fan of Keaton’s silent films, said that Buster’s real-life passion for bridge was serendipitous (Wilder shared a mania for both bridge and baseball) but that, “I would have taken him even if he never had played cards. I wanted his face.”

Wilder and his co-writer Charles Brackett might have been thinking of Keaton when they penned one of the best-known lines ever spoken about silent movies, Norma’s boast that, “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces. There just aren’t any faces like that anymore.”

Except from: Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy by Imogen Sara Smith

#buster keaton #gloria swanson #billy wilder #sunset boulevard #anna q nilsson #H.B Warner #silent movies #comedy #1920s #1950 #hollywood #golden age of hollywood #silent film #faces

[blackswaneuroparedux]

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist Billy Wilder is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood‘s golden age. With ‘The Apartment’, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film.

Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria (now part of Poland) in 22 June 1906, Billy Wilder spent his early professional life as a reporter in Vienna. In 1926 he relocated to Berlin, where his reputation as a journalist grew. But by then a different dream had taken hold - the movies. Selling his first script to an extremely grateful and quite naked producer he helped hide from the jealous boyfriend of a neighboring young lady, Wilder’s career as a screenwriter began. After several successful years in the German film industry, Wilder fled to Paris a week after the Reichstag fire in 1933.

Ten months later he emigrated to America, where an initially difficult time in Hollywood gave way to employment as a screenwriter.

In 1938 Wilder was teamed with Charles Brackett. Through their scripts for such films as ‘Bluebeard’s Eight Wife’, ‘Ninotchka’, and ‘Ball of Fire’, they became the best-known and most respected writing team in Hollywood. This success enabled Wilder to fight for and win his first American directing assignment, the now-classic comedy, ‘The Major and the Minor’, and “the Billy Wilder Film” was born.

“The Billy Wilder film.” The phrase is at once as specific and difficult to casually categorise as the filmmaker himself. Billy Wilder, the master of the American comedy who wrote and directed the grand melodramas of ’Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Double Indemnity’. The hard-hitting dramatist who created the funniest movie ever made, ’Some Like It Hot’. The “great cynic” who steeped us in the lyric romanticism of ‘Love in the Afternoon’ and ‘Avanti!’. The “classic romantic” who confronted us with the harsh realities of ‘Ace in the Hole’. Simultaneously one of the most European and American of all directors, the man refuses to stand still long enough to allow us our neat and easy definition. But, to put it in his own words, “Nobody’s perfect.”

Through his work on films as daringly varied as ‘The Lost Weekend’, ‘A Foreign Affair’, ‘The Apartment’, and ‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’, this “imperfect genius” has proven himself a true master of all aspects of the language of film, as comfortable and adept t telling a story thorough his brilliant visual style as through his unparalleled dialogue. And although the characters, the locales, the tone and genres may change, one subject seems to remain constant - the bizarre and glorious state know as the human comedy. Through the drama and the farce and the romance and despair, what we’re watching up there is, as in all great art, a reflection of ourselves.

Often running into criticism for his presentation of taboo topics such as alcoholism and prostitution, the high quality of the films redeemed him in the eyes of both the public and the industry. Of the many great stars he directed, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Shirley MacLaine, Jimmy Stewart and Jack Lemmon are only a few.

The late 1960s and 1970s, however, were not as kind to Wilder. His brand of cynicism, irony and satire were out of step with this generation’s view of peace, love, revolution and individual experimentation

A 7 time Oscar winner, Steven Spielberg called him "the greatest writer/director who ever lived." Here's some amazing footage from his birthday party where he was joined by a host of famous directors.

#wilder #billy wilder #quote #film director #film #film producer #oscar winner #writer #films #cinema #movies #hollywood #hollywood golden age #arts #culture #icon