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  1. Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 24, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." [ 1 ] She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973).

  2. May 21, 2021 · Learn how sci-fi legend Leigh Brackett shaped the sequel to Star Wars with her script, which introduced Yoda, Lando, and the ice planet Hoth. See the handwritten notes and crossed out lines from her original draft, which differed from the final film in some ways.

  3. Leigh Brackett was a prolific and influential science fiction author and screenwriter, known for her work on The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, and Star Wars. She died in 1978 and was posthumously honored with the Nebula Grand Master Award in 2018.

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  4. Brackett, Leigh. Entry updated 11 March 2024. Tagged: Author. (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. Her film work includes screenplays ...

  5. Leigh Brackett was born on December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, and raised near Santa Monica. Having spent her youth as an athletic tom-boy - playing volleyball and reading stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs and H Rider Haggard - she began writing fantastic adventures of her own.

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  6. Leigh Douglass Brackett was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She wrote the screenplays for The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959), and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980), elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the ...

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  8. 5 days ago · Charles Cyphers, who played the gruff and broad-shouldered Sheriff Leigh Brackett alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in the classic horror film “Halloween” (1978) and in two sequels, has died. He was 85.

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