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Who was Charles Brackett? Most people know Charles Brackett because of his partnership with Billy Wilder, with the two men co-writing screenplays, Brackett producing and Wilder directing such classic films as Five Graves to Cairo, The Lost Weekend, A Foreign Affair, and, of course, Sunset Blvd. He was a highly educated, Republican gentleman of the old school, who was drama critic of The New Yorker in the 1920s, the author of five novels, who came to Hollywood in 1932, initially working at RKO and then beginning a long-time relationship with Paramount, where he was teamed with Billy Wilder. When did...

Interview with Anthony Slide on his new book on Bobbie Kimber Who Is Bobbie Kimber?I suspect that is a question that most Americans will be asking. And I am not going to suggest that he is actually known in the U.S. — although he certainly should be. Bobbie Kimber was a British ventriloquist, who began his professional career in the summer of 1938. He worked in female attire in large part because there weren’t any female ventriloquists and he was rather a novelty. His name, of course, is asexual, and so audiences did not necessarily know he was a man...