![]() ![]() The legend goes he shouted to his assistant, "Get me that guy, Brackett." Brackett-Leigh Brackett-turned up. Hawks remembered reading Brackett's story, No Good from a Corpse. ![]() ![]() The stories might be set in the dark and windy city or on the gleaming sands of Mars, but the quick-witted characters and cleverly crafted plots were consistent whatever the scenery.įamed forties film director Howard Hawks was looking for another screenwriter for his soon-to-be-smash film, The Big Sleep, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and the radio dramas of the 30s and 40s, her stories filled with tough guy heroes and sometimes dangerous heroines. , opens a new window / Public Domain Leigh Brackett in 1941īorn December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles, Leigh Brackett was an athletic young woman who took a job as a swimming instructor at Muscle Beach to pay the bills while she churned out adventure fiction for the pulp magazines. Princess Leia to Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Backįrom sharp-tongued space princesses to Bogey's grim gumshoe, some of Leigh Brackett's most enduring legacies are the scripts she wrote for movies that are considered among the 20th century's very best. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion-that’s Plot.” ![]()
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