The Boston Globe, February 6th, 1993
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 film career began at the end of the silent era, peaked during the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, encompassed the controversy of "Cleopatra" and ended with the hit "Sleuth" in 1972. High points came when he won Academy Awards for writing and direction in 1949 for "A Letter to Three Wives" and repeated the feat in 1950 for "A...
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