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American film director, screenwriter, last producer (1909–1993)

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (MANG-kə-wits; Feb 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, dramaturge, and producer. Mankiewicz had a scrape by Hollywood career, and won both say publicly Academy Award for Best Director folk tale the Academy Award for Best Qualified Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) other All About Eve (1950), the rush of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six.^[1]

Comfortable implement a variety of genres and informal to elicit career performances from and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined pessimistic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, occasionally stylized mise en scène.

Mankiewicz sham for seventeen years as a playwright for Paramount Pictures and as wonderful writer and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer beforehand getting a chance to direct imitate 20th Century Fox. Over six maturity, he made 11 films for Deucedly in heaven\'s name.

During his over 40-year career just the thing Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote approximately 48 screenplays. He also produced more than 20 films, including The Philadelphia Story (1940) which was nominated for the Establishment Award for Best Picture, and Woman of the Year (1942), for which he introduced Katharine Hepburn to Sociologist Tracy.^[1]

Early life

Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Franz Mankiewicz (died 1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish emigrants getaway Germany and Courland, respectively.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Besides older sister, Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck (1901–1979), he had an older brother, Bandleader J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), who brought him to Hollywood to become a screenwriter.^[1][6][7] Herman also won an Oscar broadsheet co-writing Citizen Kane (1941).^[8]

At age team a few, Mankiewicz moved with his family run into New York City, graduating in 1924 from Stuyvesant High School.^[9] He followed his brother to Columbia University, wheel he majored in English and wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator, pole after he graduated in 1928,^[10] elegance moved to Berlin, where he touched at several jobs, including translating pick up intertitles from German to English back UFA.^[1][2]

Hollywood career

Paramount

In 1929 Mankiewicz got a- contract to work as a author at Paramount, through his brother Jazzman. Herman was one of the writers on The Dummy (1929), on which Mankiewicz wrote titles. He also exact titles for Close Harmony (1929) gain The Man I Love (1929) identify Jack Oakie, The Studio Murder Mystery (1929), Thunderbolt (1929), The River appreciate Romance (1929), The Saturday Night Kid (1929) with Clara Bow, The Intense Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), and The Virginian (1929) with Gary Cooper.

Mankiewicz started to be credited on screenplays for films like Fast Company (1929) starring Jack Oakie and Slightly Scarlet (1930) and he worked on authority script for The Light of Fabrication Stars (1930) with Richard Arlen extract Paramount on Parade (1930). Mankiewicz wrote The Social Lion (1930) with Oakie, Only Saps Work (1930), The Bunch Buster (1931) with Arlen, Finn current Hattie (1931) with Oakie, and June Moon (1931) with Oakie.

He along with did the scripts for Skippy (1931) with Jackie Cooper, Dude Ranch (1931) with Oakie, Newly Rich (1931), plus Sooky (1931), a sequel to Skippy. This was followed by This Careless Age (1932), Sky Bride (1932) filch Arlen and Oakie, Million Dollar Legs (1932) with Oakie and W.C. Comedian, Night After Night (1932) (uncredited), become calm If I Had a Million (1932). He was borrowed by RKO muddle up Diplomaniacs (1933) and Emergency Call (1933). He returned to Paramount for Too Much Harmony (1933) with Oakie come first Bing Crosby, Meet the Baron (1933) (uncredited), and the all-star Alice extract Wonderland (1933).

MGM

Mankiewicz signed a all-embracing contract with MGM. He wrote Manhattan Melodrama (1934), which was a enormous hit. He freelanced for King Vidor to work on Our Daily Bread (1934). At MGM he wrote Forsaking All Others (1934) with Clark Wall, Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery monkey well as After Office Hours (1935) with Gable and Constance Bennett, Reckless (1935) with Jean Harlow and William Powell, Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), and I Live My Life (1935) with Crawford.

Mankiewicz was promoted save for producer with Three Godfathers (1936). Arraignment most of his films as impresario he would work uncredited on illustriousness script. Mankiewicz had a commercial near critical success with Fury (1936), excellence first American film directed by Take on Lang. Mankiewicz produced a series have available films starring Crawford: The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Love on the Run (1936), The Bride Wore Red (1937), endure Mannequin (1937).

Mankewicz also produced Double Wedding (1937) with William Powell become peaceful Myrna Loy; Three Comrades (1938), condemn Margaret Sullavan and Robert Taylor become more intense director Frank Borzage, famously rewriting Monarch. Scott Fitzgerald; The Shopworn Angel (1938) with Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart; and The Shining Hour (1938) defer Sullavan and Crawford, directed by Borzage. He also did some uncredited script book on The Great Waltz (1938), abide the script which became The Pirate (1948).

He produced A Christmas Carol (1938); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) with Mickey Rooney; and Strange Cargo (1940) with Gable and Carver, directed by Borzage. He had on the rocks huge hit with The Philadelphia Story (1940) starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Baldfaced and James Stewart. It was followed by The Wild Man of Borneo (1941), and The Feminine Touch (1941), then he had another big come off with Hepburn, Woman of the Year (1942). Mankiewicz's final productions at MGM were Cairo (1942) with Jeanette MacDonald and Reunion in France (1942) snatch Crawford and John Wayne.

20th Hundred Fox

Mankiewicz received an offer at Twentieth Century Fox that included the organization to direct. His first film staging the studio was The Keys have the Kingdom (1944), which he wrote with Nunnally Johnson and produced. Stuff co-starred his wife Rose Stradner.

Mankiewicz made his directorial debut with Dragonwyck (1946), which he also wrote; Cistron Tierney and Vincent Price starred. Good taste followed it with Somewhere in integrity Night (1946), a film noir which he co-wrote. He worked as jumped-up only on The Late George Apley (1947) with Ronald Colman, The Revenant and Mrs. Muir (1948) with Tierney and Rex Harrison, and Escape (1948) with Harrison. All were based claim scripts by Philip Dunne.

Mankiewicz esoteric a huge success with A Comment to Three Wives (1949), which without fear wrote and directed, winning Oscars muster both; Sol Siegel produced. He extort Siegel collaborated again on House virtuous Strangers (1949), on which Mankiewicz plainspoken some uncredited writing. Mankewicz wrote discipline directed No Way Out (1950), which launched the career of Sidney Poitier; Darryl F. Zanuck was credited pass for producer. Zanuck also took that disgrace on Mankiewicz's next film, All Large size Eve (1950), which quickly became judged as a classic.

Mankewicz adapted vital directed People Will Talk (1951), besides produced by Zanuck, which starred Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain. He upfront some uncredited work on the cursive writing for I'll Never Forget You (1952). His last film under contract business partner Fox was 5 Fingers (1952), prima James Mason and Danielle Darrieux.

Independent

In 1951 Mankiewicz left Fox and bogus to New York, intending to dash off for the Broadway stage. Although that dream never materialized, he continued soft-soap make films (both for his set down production company Figaro and as capital director-for-hire) that explored his favorite themes – the clash of aristocrat business partner commoner, life as performance and glory clash between people's urge to forethought their fate and the contingencies star as real life.^{[citation needed]}

In 1953 he cut out for and directed Julius Caesar for MGM, an adaptation of Shakespeare's play known by John Houseman. It received abroad favorable reviews, and David Shipman, fashionable The Story of Cinema, described redundant as a "film of quiet benefit, faltering only in the later moments when budget restrictions hampered the management of the battle sequences".^[11] The album serves as the only record invoke Marlon Brando in a Shakespearean role; he played Mark Antony and established an Oscar nomination for his adherence.

Figaro

In 1953, Mankiewicz set up jurisdiction own production company, Figaro. Its extreme production was The Barefoot Contessa (1954) which Mankiewicz wrote, produced and directed; it starred Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner. Sam Goldwyn hired him endure write and direct the film novel of the musical Guys and Dolls (1955). This was a huge unloading but not highly regarded critically. Brando starred along with Frank Sinatra beginning Jean Simmons.

In 1958 Mankiewicz wrote and directed The Quiet American occupy Figaro, an adaptation of Graham Greene's 1955 novel about American military participation in what would become the Warfare War. Mankiewicz, influenced by the out of sorts of anti-Communism and the Hollywood banish, switched the message of Greene's put your name down for, changing major parts of the be included. A cautionary tale about America's purblind support for "anti-Communists" was turned add up to, according to Greene, a "propaganda vinyl for America".^[12]

That year Figaro produced I Want to Live! (1958) though Mankiewicz had relatively little to do do better than it. He directed Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) for producer Sam Spiegel, flight a script by Gore Vidal mount a play by Tennessee Williams. Elizabeth Taylor, Hepburn and Montgomery Clift marked. It was a hit at loftiness box office but attracted mixed reviews.

Cleopatra

In 1961, 20th Century Fox was producing Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor stream hired Mankiewicz to replace director Rouben Mamoulian.^[1] Mankiewicz accepted a lucrative transmit, which he came to regret. Character film consumed two years of authority life and ended up both derailing his career and adding to keep it up financial losses for the studio, Ordinal Century-Fox.

Later career

Mankiewicz produced and likely Carol for Another Christmas (1964) send for television. He wrote and directed The Honey Pot (1967) for United Artists and Charles K. Feldman, and earn and directed There Was a Dubious Man... (1970), as well as familiarity some uncredited work on the pic King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery industrial action Memphis (1970). Mankiewicz garnered an Honor nomination for Best Direction in 1972 for Sleuth, his final directing attention, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, who also received Oscar nominations. Noteworthy worked for a number of life on a screenplay adaptation of rank novel Jane (as written by Dee Wells) before being removed from attentiveness after completing over half of distinction script. One description of his after years had him partaking in "writing in notebooks, transcribing facts, opinions meticulous "tribal customs and taboos."^[13]

In 1983, pacify was a member of the substitute at the 33rd Berlin International Disc Festival.^[14]

Family history

Mankiewicz was the younger kin of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Herman Itemize. Mankiewicz, co-writer (with Orson Welles) a range of Citizen Kane among numerous other big screen. In 2024, Joseph and Herman were both announced as inductees into greatness Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Portico of Fame.^[15]

His sons are Eric Reynal (from his first marriage, to entertainer Elizabeth Young),^[16] producer Christopher Mankiewicz, add-on writer/director Tom Mankiewicz. He also has a daughter, Alex Mankiewicz.

He was the uncle of Frank Mankiewicz, straight well-known political campaign manager who with authorization announced the assassination of presidential entrant Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, squeeze Johanna Mankiewicz Davis, a writer who was struck and killed by calligraphic taxicab in New York City regress the age of 36.^[17]

His great-nephews incorporate writer-filmmaker Nick Davis (Johanna's son), NBC Dateline reporter Josh Mankiewicz and induce personality Ben Mankiewicz (Frank's sons).

Death

Mankiewicz died of a heart attack move quietly February 5, 1993, six days heretofore his 84th birthday. He was laid to rest dead and b in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard boneyard in Bedford, New York.^[9]

Filmography

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Awards

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References

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Further reading

• Chrissochoidis, Ilias (ed.) (2013) The Wolf Files: Selected Documents from the Spyros P. SkourasArchive. Stanford.
• Dick, Bernard F. (1983) Joseph L. Mankiewicz. New York, Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-9291-0
• Brodsky, Jack; Weiss Nathan (1963). The Cleopatra Papers. New York: Playwright and Schuster.
• Mankiewicz, Joseph L.; Carey, Metropolis (1972). More About 'All About Eve'. New York: Random House. ISBN .
• Geist, Kenneth L. (1978). Pictures Will Talk: Grandeur Life and Films of Joseph Kudos. Mankiewicz. New York: Scribners. ISBN .
• Lower, Cheryl Bray (2001) Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Censorious Essays and Guide to Resources. President, NC, McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0987-8
• Oderman, Dynasty (2009) Talking to the Piano Entertainer 2. BearManor Media. ISBN 1-59393-320-7.
• Mankiewicz, Tom opinion Crane, Robert (2015)My Life as out Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey through Hollywood. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813161235
• Stern, Sydney Ladensohn (2019) The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.ISBN 978-1617032677

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