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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
Mankiewicz, Joseph Leo. (b. 11 February 1909 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; d. 5 February 1993 in Mount Kisco, New York), one of the most celebrated writer-directors in U.S. cinema, known for such classics as The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950). Mankiewicz was the youngest of three children ...
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 ...
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
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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909. After graduating from Columbia University in New York, New York, in 1928, he worked as a news reporter. Mankiewicz launched his Hollywood career in 1929 when his brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz, cowriter of Citizen Kane (1941), got him a job as a scriptwriter for Paramount Pictures .
