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Charles William Brackett (November 26, 1892 – March 9, 1969) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his long collaboration with Billy Wilder. ==Life and career== Born on November 26, 1892 in Saratoga Springs, New York, Charles William Brackett was the son of Mary Emma Corliss and New York State Senator, lawyer, and banker Edgar Truman Brackett. Brackett's American roots traced back to the arrival of Richard Brackett in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629, near present-day Springfield, Massachusetts and all descendants of Theodore Brackett. His mother was Mary Emma Corliss, whose uncle, George Henry Corliss, built the Centennial Engine that powered the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Brackett was a 1915 graduate of Williams College, and received his degree from Harvard University. He joined the Allied Expeditionary Force during World War I. He was awarded the French Medal of Honor. He was a frequent contributor to the ''Saturday Evening Post'', ''Collier's'', and ''Vanity Fair'', and a drama critic for ''The New Yorker'' from 1925 to 1929. Brackett married Elizabeth Barrows Fletcher, a descendant of Stephen Hopkins of the ''Mayflower'', on June 2, 1919, in Indianapolis, Indiana. They had two daughters, Alexandra Corliss Brackett (1920–1968) and Elizabeth Fletcher Brackett (1922–1997). Elizabeth died on June 7, 1948. In 1953, Brackett married Elizabeth's sister, Lillian Fletcher.〔Hopper, H. (1953, Dec 27). Charlie brackett marries sister of his first wife. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File) Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/166556164?accountid=13902 〕 There were no children from that marriage. Brackett wrote five novels: ''Counsel of the Ungodly'' (1920), ''Week-End'' (1925), ''That Last Infirmity'' (1926), ''American Colony'' (1929), and ''Entirely Surrounded'' (1934). Brackett was president of the Screen Writers Guild (1938–1939). He was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1949 through 1955. Brackett either wrote or produced over 40 films during his career, including ''To Each His Own'', ''Ninotchka'', ''The Major and the Minor'', ''The Mating Season'' (1951), ''Niagara'', ''The King and I'', ''Ten North Frederick'', ''The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker'', and ''Blue Denim''. From 1936 until 1950, Brackett worked with Billy Wilder as his collaborator on thirteen movies, including ''The Lost Weekend'' (1945) and ''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950), which won Academy Awards for their screenplays. Wilder was the more profane of the two partners, while Brackett held to his upper-crust upbringing and was known as the "gentleman" of the two men. Their social and cultural backgrounds often clashed, but Brackett acknowledged later in his life that Wilder's baser instincts about human nature were invaluable to their collaboration. By the late 1940s, a schism based on personal, creative, and contractual differences, festering for many years, began to threaten the partnership. Brackett and Wilder's professional partnership ended in 1950, after the completion of ''Sunset Boulevard''. Brackett then went to work at 20th Century-Fox as a screenwriter and producer. His script for ''Titanic'' (1953) won him another Academy Award. He received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1959. He died on March 9, 1969. Bracket's diaries covering the years 1932 until the breakup with Wilder were edited by Anthony Slide under the title ''It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age'' (Columbia University Press, 2014). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Brackett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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