'It''s the Pictures That Got Small' - Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood''s Golden Age

Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He 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 (1945) and Sunset Blvd (1950).

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jim Moore
Introduction by Anthony Slide
The Diaries
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
Leading Names and Subjects in the Diaries
Notes to Introduction
Index

About the author

Anthony Slide is the author or editor of more than two hundred books on the history of popular entertainment. He has served as both associate archivist of the American Film Institute and as resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His most recent publications include Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses; Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazines: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers; and Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Ins.

Summary

Private revelations from a prominent Hollywood screenwriter and producer who worked closely with Billy Wilder from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Report

"Charles Brackett was an outstanding writer and producer of his era. Like him, I have served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and also like him, I had had a long association with Billy Wilder. I am therefore delighted that Charlie's diaries are being published, providing us with his unique insight into Billy and Hollywood's golden age." - Walter Mirisch

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Slide
• Assisted by: Anthony Slide (Editor), Slide Anthony (Editor), Jim Moore (Foreword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2014
• EAN: 9780231167086
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16708-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film & Culture (COUP); Film & Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; USA, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Films, cinema, United States of America, USA, Diaries, letters and journals, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film; biography; screenwriting