![]() ![]() None of her television work is in the fields of the fantastic. ![]() Her last film work, a draft scenario for Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980), for which she posthumously received a 1981 Hugo, was not typical of her efforts in this field, though she clearly felt at home with the Western-derived elements in the overall story the original script was published as The Empire Strikes Back ( 1978 exp vt The Empire Strikes Back: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Script 1999) with Larry Kasdan. Hawks had been impressed by her first novel, the detective thriller No Good from a Corpse ( 1944), and famously (as a Hollywood tale puts it) told his secretary to locate "this guy Brackett" (Hawks, noted for his filming competent women coping with slightly less competent men, was undismayed when Brackett turned out to be female). Her film work includes screenplays for The Vampire's Ghost ( 1945) and The Long Goodbye ( 1973) and for Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep ( 1946) and Rio Bravo ( 1958), novelizing her own script as Rio Bravo ( 1959). ![]() (1915-1978) US scriptwriter and author, for most of her career deeply involved in the writing of fantasy and sf, for which she perhaps remains best known, though her detective novels and her 16 film and television scenarios have been justly praised. ![]()
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