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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (/ ˈ m æ ŋ k ə w ɪ t s / MANG-kə-wits; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter ...
Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Writer: All About Eve. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928).
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Writer: All About Eve. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount productions in Hollywood, most of them Jack Oakie vehicles ...
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- February 5, 1993
Aug 31, 2023 · He’s based on another boy genius, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who was a twentysomething writer and producer at M-G-M when he and Fitzgerald butted heads. (Mankiewicz offended Fitzgerald by rewriting ...
Jul 30, 2021 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1954 drama features Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner in one of the great movies about filmmaking. By Richard Brody. July 30, 2021.
Feb 6, 1993 · Feb. 6, 1993 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the witty writer who became a director and won Academy Awards for both disciplines in such classic films as “A Letter to Three ...
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Aug 29, 2011 · The Complete Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The brilliant films and career of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) have long occupied a paradoxical and stubbornly unclassifiable place in the history of the American cinema. In many ways Mankiewicz's immeasurable talents as both screenwriter and director seem to be neatly summarized in All About Eve, the ...
