Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( February 11 , 1909 – February 5 , 1993 ) was a Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer. Sourced Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night. All About Eve (1950), spoken by Margo Channing ( Bette Davis ) I am...
Biography
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Joseph L(eo) Mankiewicz
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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 had met in New York City. When Mankiewicz was a child,...
BEDFORD, N.Y. -- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the Academy Award-winning writer and director whose films included such classics as "All About Eve," "A Letter to Three Wives" and "Suddenly Last Summer," died yesterday of heart failure at his home. He was 83. Mr. Mankiewicz's...
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, a witty and sophisticated Hollywood producer, director and screenwriter who won two Academy Awards apiece for "All About Eve" and "A Letter to Three Wives," died yesterday in Bedford, N.Y. His nephew, Washington public relations executive Frank Mankiewicz, said...
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 Ernst Lubitsch for the job, but Lubitsch already had three heart attacks to his...
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