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1 day ago · By February 1957, screenwriter Charles Brackett brought it to the attention of Walt Disney, who acquired the film rights to the novel on November 26 of that year (after lengthy negotiations) for $25,000.
4 days ago · Finally, there was Ninotchka (1939), with a gift of a comic script by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder and the most deft, light-of-touch direction from the great Ernst Lubitsch. Surrounded by such talent, Garbo boldly shined, playing a brusque Soviet commissar who, assigned to Paris, discovers the delights of Western-style makeup, clothing ...
1 day ago · Paddy Chayefsky and Billy Wilder have also won three screenwriting Oscars: Chayefsky won two for Original Screenplay (The Hospital and Network) and one for Adapted Screenplay , while Wilder won one for Adapted Screenplay (The Lost Weekend, shared with Charles Brackett), and two for Original Screenplay (Sunset Boulevard, shared with Brackett and ...
1 day ago · The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
3 days ago · Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett actually began filming "Sunset Boulevard" without a final shooting script. Wilder wanted to conceal the nature of the story, which was an exposé of Hollywood's dark side, from the studios, and chose the innocuous shooting title.
3 days ago · Classic Post-War American Musicals: South Pacific and Kiss Me, Kate. Joan Almedilla singing "Bali H'ai" to Cameron Loyal and the sailors in South Pacific. Of the trio of Rodgers and Hammerstein mega-hits from the 1940s, South Pacific (1949) gets the fewest productions. Even Carousel, with its rigorous vocal demands and its onstage carousel, is ...
5 days ago · The scariest movie clowns prove that being a famous jester is not always fun and games. Knowing the difference between a truly evil clown and a party entertainer isn't always easy, however, because clowns are inherently creepy looking, despite - or because of - their colorful body paint, big shoes, whimsical clothes, and ridiculous hair.
