![]() ![]() The story of her hiring, oft repeated by both Hawks and Brackett, is that the director told his secretary to “get me this Leigh Brackett fella on the phone.” The Brackett fella turned out to be a young woman, not yet thirty, who had just written her first film, the cheapie horror flick The Vampire’s Ghost. The novel caught the eye of director Howard Hawks, who was preparing his adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. After compiling an impressive body of work in the science fiction market, Brackett published a mystery novel, No Good From A Corpse. She started writing early, publishing her first story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1940 when she was still in her mid-twenties. ![]() How does one person knock down both the ultimate private eye movie and the ultimate deconstruction of the private eye movie? And how does that same person write what is considered by some fans to be the best western of all time and a remake of that same movie? And how does the person who pulled off those two neat tricks write, in her sixties no less, the ultimate pop sci-fi flick of all time? Well, the answer to all these questions is that Leigh Brackett was awesome.īrackett was born in 1915 and raised in Los Angeles. ![]() Pop quiz: What do The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, El Dorado, The Long Goodbye, and The Empire Strikes Back have in common?Īnswer: They were all written or co-written by the same woman, the amazing Leigh Brackett. ![]()
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