![]() Certainly, other writers have done the same, but on top of that, she moved equally unhindered between different media: novels, short stories, films, TV, radio. She moved freely and without any apparent difficulties between differing genres like mysteries, westerns, fantasy, science fiction. In retrospect, Leigh Brackett turns out to be a somewhat different bird in the world of writers. And lo, in this the 21st century, her old crime stories and space operas are brought to light and praised again. Over the years, he summoned her over and over again. ![]() Hawks straightaway overcame his surprise, hired her and in the long run Leigh Brackett became his favorite scriptwriter. And how could he possibly imagine in those days that a woman wrote the most hardboiled and hard-hitting punch cues in Hollywood? ![]() And who can blame him? Leigh is an ambiguous first name, mostly interpreted as a male name. To his surprise a lanky young woman turned up at his office. “Wow!” he said, “get me that Brackett guy” or words to that effect. The story is perhaps not that good, but the way it is written. ![]() Hawks was not overly impressed by the story, but he most certainly appreciated the dialogues. When Howard Hawks (1896-1977) planned to make a screen version of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep in 1946, he happened to read “No Good from a Corpse” by Leigh Brackett (1915-1978). ![]()
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