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

Name: It's the Pictures That Got Small Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age
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ISBN: 9780231167086

ISBN-10: 0231167083

ISBN-13: 9780231167086

Edition: 2014

Authors: Anthony Slide

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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). In this annotated collection of writings taken from dozens of Brackett's unpublished diaries, leading film historian Anthony Slide clarifies Brackett's critical contribution to Wilder's films and Hollywood history while enriching our knowledge of Wilder's achievements in writing, direction, and style.…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/16/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Anthony Slide is the author or editor of some sixty books on the history of popular entertainment, & editor of the "Filmmakers" series published by Scarecrow Press. He has served as an associate archivist of the American Film Institute & resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In 1990, in recognition of his work on the history of popular culture, Mr. Slide was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University. Anthony Slide resides in Studio City, California.