One of the first and most important screenwriters of talking films, Joseph Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the son of Johanna Blumenau and Frank Mankiewicz, German immigrants who ha...
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Darryl Zanuck loved the story but hated the choice of writer-director-an "arrogant bastard" with "four flops" to his name already, as he blustered to the producer, Sol C. Siegel. Zanuck wanted Erns...
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Joseph L(eo) Mankiewicz
Arrogant Bastard's Contempt Enlivens Waspish Melodrama
