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

"Brackett's diaries read like a funnier, better-paced version of Barton Fink." —Newsweek

Screenwriter Charles Brackett 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 and Sunset Boulevard. He was also a perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry, and in this annotated collection of writings from dozens of Brackett's unpublished diaries, film ...