Word: brackett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Tatlock's Millions. Charles Brackett's sure fun from some questionable subjects; with John Lund and Barry Fitzgerald (TIME...
Miss Tatlock's Millions (Paramount) gives Writer-Producer Charles Brackett another chance to practice his favorite sport of skating on dangerously thin ice. Brackett and his fellow worker Billy Wilder are virtually the only Hollywood practitioners, since the penalty for breaking through the ice is almost certain professional death. Brackett and Wilder have already managed to make movies around such dynamite-loaded topics as divorce, alcoholism, adultery-plus-murder, illegitimacy, the black market in Germany...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...
...Thoma is professor of Oval Surgery and Charles A. Brackett, Professor of Oral Pathology, and is the author of two widely used medical texts, "Oral Pathology" and "Oral Surgery...
...Foreign Affair (Paramount), which displays Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur and John Lund against the ruins of Berlin, is obviously intended as a light satirical comedy about victors & vanquished. Unlikely as it sounds, that could be done; done well, it could be salutary as well as entertaining. But Messrs. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder are a little too clever and a lot too inhumane to bring it off much of the time...