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  Herman J. Mankiewicz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897—March 5, 1953) was a Jewish-American legendary Hollywood screenwriter.
He won an Academy Award for his collaboration with Orson Welles on the writing for Citizen Kane, and was also known for his work on the original Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Pride of the Yankees.
He was the older brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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 Encyclopedia: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909–February 5, 1993) was a Jewish-American Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer.
He was the younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
On his passing in 1993, Joseph Mankiewicz was interred in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard cemetery, Bedford, New York.
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 Herman Potocnik biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung) (December 12, 1892 - August 27, 1929) was a Slovene rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics).
His father Jožef was born in 1841 in Razbor near Slovenj Gradec and at the time of Herman's birth he served as a doctor and high navy officer in the Austro-Hungarian navy harbour of Pola.
Herman had two brothers Adolf and Gustav (who were both navy officers), and a sister Franci.
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Despite (or because of) his brilliance, Herman J. Mankiewicz had a difficult tim...
Herman J. Mankiewicz's wife Sara had a hellish time dealing with her husband's n...
Herman J. Mankiewicz, having agreed to assume the helm (as director) of the trou...
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 Mankiewicz, Herman --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Mankiewicz, Joseph L. major American producer, director, and screenwriter known for his witty, literary, urbane dialogue and memorable characters.
Mankiewicz, Joseph L. motion-picture director, screenwriter, and producer Joseph Mankiewicz became one of Hollywood's most celebrated writers for creating screenplays with fascinating story lines as well as witty, often biting dialogue.
Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 into an established merchant family.
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 The Director's View Film Festival Film Festival: A Profile of Joseph Mankiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1913, the Mankiewicz family returned to New York City so that Frank Mankiewicz could attain his M.A. at Columbia - and son Herman could begin his B.A. studies (Columbia, Class of '17).
In 1929, his brother Herman J. Mankiewicz, by then already a well-established screenwriter of note (whose career would later include "Citizen Kane") invited his younger brother to join him in California.
Mankiewicz arrived in Hollywood together with the advent of "Talk", and was placed under contract to Paramount (a contract which had to be approved by a judge, since he was not yet of legal age).
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 BUSINESS FORWARD - March 2001 - Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Frank Mankiewicz, vice chairman of PR powerhouse Hill & Knowlton, is about as far as you get from the stereotype of the flashy PR spin-doctor.
Mankiewicz's father, Herman Mankiewicz, won an Academy Award for cowriting Citizen Kane (1941), often considered the best film ever made.
My father [Herman Mankiewicz] wrote for the movies, but he didn’t like it and never talked about it.
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 Joseph L. Mankiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
From that day on, Mankiewicz directed 20 films in a 26 year period, succesfully attempted every kind of movie, from Shakespeare adaptation to western, from urban sociological drama to musical, from epic film with thousands of extras to two character picture.
In 1936, he began producing as well with the powerful lynch mob drama Fury which was followed over the next decade by such superior films as The Shopworn Angel (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), and Keys of the Kingdom (1944).
Mankiewicz finally ascended to the director's chair in 1946 with the period melodrama Dragonwyck and scored another hit the following year with The Ghost and Mrs.
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 Joseph L Mankiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Casablanca was preceded by a 2003 reading of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve, with Stockard Channing, Kirk Douglas, Calista Flockhart and Tim Curry and...
With a screenplay by Wilkes-Barre native Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909February 5, 1993) was a legendary Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer.
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 Alliance for Aging Research - Winter 2003 Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He grew up in Beverly Hills, and his father, Herman Mankiewicz, was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter who is credited with Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the best movie ever made-among his achievements.
Despite his renown, Herman Mankiewicz's was less than enthusiastic about his work, and rarely talked about it.
As a result, Mankiewicz's current job, as vice chairman of the giant PR firm of Hill & Knowlton, continues to keep his batteries charged even after 20 years.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Mankiewicz
A commentary track by Richard Donner and screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz is also available which highlights the film scene by scene.
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles co-wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay, and the film was also nominated for best picture, best actor (Welles), best...
In a 1949 movie, "A Letter to Three Wives," written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the scene is at a New Year's Eve house party and two friends are...
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 Herman J. Mankiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7 1897 — March 5 1953) was a legendary Hollywood screenwriter.
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 Memorable Quotes from RKO 281 (1999) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Me too, but I got used to it.
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: That is love to him.
Herman J. 'Mank' Mankiewicz: Craig is one syllable.
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 MSN - Movies: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Born: February 11, 1909 in Wilkes-Barre, PA Died: February 5, 1993 in Bedford, NY Like his older brother Herman J. Mankiewicz, American producer/ director/ writer Joseph Mankiewicz displayed a streak of brilliance from an early age.
Before he was 20, the younger Mankiewicz was the assistant Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and an English translator for the subtitles of German-made films.
Brother Herman, already ensconced in Hollywood as a high-priced screenwriter, invited Joseph to try his luck in Tinseltown in 1929.
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 carringer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
But part of his job was to ride herd on Mankiewicz, whose drinking habits were legendary and whose screenwriting credentials unfortunately did not include a reputation for seeing things through.
Kael gives the impression that Rita Alexander, Herman Mankiewicz's private secretary, was performing all these specialized studio functions herself.
Robert L. Carringer is associate professor of English and cinema studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author (with Barry Sabath) of Ernst Lubitsch.
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 Encyclopedia: Herman J. Mankiewicz
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 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Critic Pauline Kael, in her 1971 The Citizen Kane Book, revived the debate with her carefully detailed argument that it was Mankiewicz who was primarily responsible for the screenplay, from inception of the idea through the shooting script.
Whatever the balance of the collaboration, this much is known: When Mankiewicz and Welles began work on the script, it was titled American, and its central figure was an even more thinly veiled caricature of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst than appears in the completed film.
Welles' imaginative storytelling skills as a director were reinforced by magnificent performances, beginning with his own in the title role, and groundbreaking techniques in photography, editing and sound.
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 Herman J. Mankiewicz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897—March 5, 1953) was a (The property of being smooth and shiny) Polish- (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American legendary (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood screenwriter.
He was the older brother of (Click link for more info and facts about Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
He received his (Click link for more info and facts about bachelor's degree) bachelor's degree from (A university in New York City) Columbia University in 1917.
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 Shot 71 from the Shooting Script of Citizen Kane
This production created a near-panic in the nation among listeners who did not understand they were hearing a dramatic production, not a real news broadcast about invaders from the planet Mars.
Within a few years Welles, along with Herman J. Mankiewicz, planned a film on a larger-than-life American figure.
Mankiewicz produced a lengthy draft of the script, which was titled first American, and then, a little later, John Citizen, USA.
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 Anecdote - Herman J. Mankiewicz - Herman J. Mankiewicz: Hornblower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One evening the great screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz attended an elegant dinner party hosted by producer Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
When, having drunk too much, Mankiewicz threw up at the table, a disgusted silence spread through the room.
Mankiewicz, Herman J. (1897-1953) American journalist, critic, and screenwriter [noted for his work on scripts for such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928), Girl Crazy (1933), Duck Soup (1933), It's a Wonderful World (1939), Citizen Kane (1941, Screenplay Oscar, with Welles), and The Pride of the Yankees (1942, Oscar nomination)]
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 Biography for Joseph L. Mankiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Muir (1947), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), his only original screenplay, and The Honey Pot (1967) are major artistic achievements as well, showing Mankiewicz as a witty dialoguist, a master in the use of flash-back and a talented actors' director (he favoured English ones and had in Rex Harrison a kind of alter-ego on the screen).
Currently, Frank Mankiewicz serves as Vice Chairman of Hill & Knowlton Public Relations in Washington, DC.
One of America's wittiest and most urbane filmmakers, Mankiewicz managed to please both critics and audiences with a wide variety of films, marked by an extraordinary degree of intelligence and sophistication.
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 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
De retour aux Etats-Unis, Herman J. Mankiewicz, son frère, le fait rentrer à la Paramount en la qualité de dialoguiste et scénariste.
Mankiewicz fait preuve d'éclectisme en voyageant à travers tous les registres du 7ème Art.
Mankiewicz a passé sa vie à bluffer l'industrie hollywoodienne.
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 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909–February 5, 1993) was a Polish-American Hollywood screenwriter, director and producer.
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The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood.
He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness.
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 Search Results for Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Encyclopædia Britannica
Mankiewicz, Joseph Leo Britannica Book of the Year 1994
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.: Mankiewicz during production of “Julius Caesar”
Information on this motion picture by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz portraying offstage life of Broadway and the New York theater.
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 Anecdote - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald - Herman J. Mankiewicz: Romeo and Juliet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herman J. Mankiewicz, convinced that Three Comrades would make more money if the leading female character was allowed to live, ordered F. Scott Fitzgerald to change the script.
"You wouldn't have wanted Juliet to live, would you?" Mankiewicz, whose cultural experience did not far extend beyond the world of film, thought back to the screen adaptation of 1936.
[Mankiewicz did not live to see the popular success of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet.]
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 Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Filme / DVD
Joseph L. Mankiewicz wurde am 11.02.1909 in Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, USA unter dem bürgerlichen Namen Joseph Leo Mankiewicz geboren.
Er ist der Bruder von Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Er ist der Vater von Christopher Mankiewicz und Tom Mankiewicz.
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 Herman J. Mankiewicz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The elder brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, he was educated at Columbia and at the University of Berlin and, after WW I service in Europe, he remained in Paris as head of the American Red Cross News Service, then moved to Berlin and began his writing career as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune.
Returning to the US, he became prominent in New York's cultural life as the assistant drama editor of The New York Times under George S. Kaufmann and as the first drama editor of The New Yorker.
Another son, syndicated columnist and radio and TV commentator Frank Mankiewicz, was press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy and political director of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign.
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