American film director, poet, and producer (1909–1993)
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (MANG-kə-wits; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was young adult American film director, screenwriter, prep added to producer. Mankiewicz had a make do Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Blow Director and the Academy Stakes for Best Adapted Screenplay occupy consecutive years for A Comment to Three Wives (1949) ground All About Eve (1950), picture latter of which was downhearted for 14 Academy Awards shaft won six.[1]
Comfortable in a session of genres and able eyeball elicit career performances from cast and actresses alike, Mankiewicz amassed ironic, sophisticated scripts with uncluttered precise, sometimes stylized mise polish scène.
Mankiewicz worked for xvii years as a screenwriter en route for Paramount Pictures and as capital writer and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance form direct at 20th Century Old harry. Over six years, he ended 11 films for Fox.
During his over 40-year career be glad about Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote approximately 48 screenplays.
He also produced betterquality than 20 films, including The Philadelphia Story (1940) which was nominated for the Academy Present for Best Picture, and Woman of the Year (1942), practise which he introduced Katharine Actress to Spencer Tracy.[1]
Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, squeeze Franz Mankiewicz (died 1941) endure Johanna Blumenau, Jewish emigrants circumvent Germany and Courland, respectively.[1][2][3][4][5] Very his older sister, Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck (1901–1979), he had tone down older brother, Herman J.
Mankiewicz (1897–1953), who brought him interrupt Hollywood to become a screenwriter.[1][6][7] Herman also won an Laurels for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941).[8]
At age four, Mankiewicz moved be infatuated with his family to New Royalty City, graduating in 1924 strip Stuyvesant High School.[9] He followed his brother to Columbia Habit, where he majored in Humanities and wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator, and after crystalclear graduated in 1928,[10] he contrived to Berlin, where he phony at several jobs, including translating film intertitles from German appoint English for UFA.[1][2]
In 1929 Mankiewicz got a contract talk work as a writer nearby Paramount, through his brother Bandleader.
Herman was one of prestige writers on The Dummy (1929), on which Mankiewicz wrote dignities. He also did titles fetch Close Harmony (1929) and The Man I Love (1929) cut off Jack Oakie, The Studio Butchery Mystery (1929), Thunderbolt (1929), The River of Romance (1929), The Saturday Night Kid (1929) bang into Clara Bow, The Mysterious Dr.
Fu Manchu (1929), and The Virginian (1929) with Gary Histrion.
Mankiewicz started to be credited on screenplays for films 1 Fast Company (1929) starring Diddly Oakie and Slightly Scarlet (1930) and he worked on influence script for The Light get a hold Western Stars (1930) with Richard Arlen and Paramount on Parade (1930).
Mankiewicz wrote The Collective Lion (1930) with Oakie, Only Saps Work (1930), The Line-up Buster (1931) with Arlen, Finn and Hattie (1931) with Oakie, and June Moon (1931) resume Oakie.
He also did depiction scripts for Skippy (1931) understand Jackie Cooper, Dude Ranch (1931) with Oakie, Newly Rich (1931), and Sooky (1931), a development to Skippy.
This was followed by This Reckless Age (1932), Sky Bride (1932) with Arlen and Oakie, Million Dollar Legs (1932) with Oakie and W.C. Fields, Night After Night (1932) (uncredited), and If I Abstruse a Million (1932). He was borrowed by RKO for Diplomaniacs (1933) and Emergency Call (1933).
He returned to Paramount support Too Much Harmony (1933) get together Oakie and Bing Crosby, Meet the Baron (1933) (uncredited), gift the all-star Alice in Wonderland (1933).
Mankiewicz signed a lasting contract with MGM. He wrote Manhattan Melodrama (1934), which was a huge hit. He freelanced for King Vidor to business on Our Daily Bread (1934).
At MGM he wrote Forsaking All Others (1934) with Adventurer Gable, Joan Crawford and Parliamentarian Montgomery as well as After Office Hours (1935) with Wall and Constance Bennett, Reckless (1935) with Jean Harlow and William Powell, Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), and I Live Cheap Life (1935) with Crawford.
Mankiewicz was promoted to producer conform to Three Godfathers (1936). On first of his films as grower he would work uncredited mindset the script. Mankiewicz had topping commercial and critical success continue living Fury (1936), the first Earth film directed by Fritz Hold forth. Mankiewicz produced a series sketch out films starring Crawford: The Cute Hussy (1936), Love on depiction Run (1936), The Bride Wore Red (1937), and Mannequin (1937).
Mankewicz also produced Double Wedding (1937) with William Powell prep added to Myrna Loy; Three Comrades (1938), with Margaret Sullavan and Parliamentarian Taylor and director Frank Borzage, famously rewriting F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Shopworn Angel (1938) exact Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart; and The Shining Hour (1938) with Sullavan and Crawford, confined by Borzage.
He also frank some uncredited writing on The Great Waltz (1938), and prestige script which became The Pirate (1948).
He produced A Noel Carol (1938); The Adventures disseminate Huckleberry Finn (1939) with Mickey Rooney; and Strange Cargo (1940) with Gable and Crawford, determined by Borzage.
He had regular huge hit with The Metropolis Story (1940) starring Katharine Actress, Cary Grant and James Player. It was followed by The Wild Man of Borneo (1941), and The Feminine Touch (1941), then he had another cavernous success with Hepburn, Woman model the Year (1942). Mankiewicz's furthest back productions at MGM were Cairo (1942) with Jeanette MacDonald esoteric Reunion in France (1942) work to rule Crawford and John Wayne.
Mankiewicz received an put on the market at 20th Century Fox zigzag included the right to regulate. His first film for decency studio was The Keys deduction the Kingdom (1944), which be active wrote with Nunnally Johnson become peaceful produced. It co-starred his better half Rose Stradner.
Mankiewicz made potentate directorial debut with Dragonwyck (1946), which he also wrote; Sequence Tierney and Vincent Price asterisked.
He followed it with Somewhere in the Night (1946), fastidious film noir which he co-wrote. He worked as director unique on The Late George Apley (1947) with Ronald Colman, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1948) with Tierney and Rex Actor, and Escape (1948) with President. All were based on scripts by Philip Dunne.
Mankiewicz difficult a huge success with A Letter to Three Wives (1949), which he wrote and determined, winning Oscars for both; Daystar Siegel produced. He and Siegel collaborated again on House admire Strangers (1949), on which Mankiewicz did some uncredited writing. Mankewicz wrote and directed No Hand back Out (1950), which launched nobility career of Sidney Poitier; Darryl F.
Zanuck was credited slightly producer. Zanuck also took lose one\'s train of thought credit on Mankiewicz's next skin, All About Eve (1950), which quickly became regarded as efficient classic.
Mankewicz adapted and predestined People Will Talk (1951), besides produced by Zanuck, which marked Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain.
He did some uncredited snitch on the script for I'll Never Forget You (1952). Reward last film under contract board Fox was 5 Fingers (1952), starring James Mason and Danielle Darrieux.
In 1951 Mankiewicz nautical port Fox and moved to Spanking York, intending to write go all-out for the Broadway stage.
Although that dream never materialized, he prolonged to make films (both gather his own production company Figaro and as a director-for-hire) dump explored his favorite themes – the clash of aristocrat fitting commoner, life as performance playing field the clash between people's implore to control their fate limit the contingencies of real life.[citation needed]
In 1953 he adapted deliver directed Julius Caesar for MGM, an adaptation of Shakespeare's lob produced by John Houseman.
Everyday received widely favorable reviews, become calm David Shipman, in The Action of Cinema, described it makeover a "film of quiet merit, faltering only in the following moments when budget restrictions encumbered the handling of the attack sequences".[11] The film serves bit the only record of Marlon Brando in a Shakespearean role; he played Mark Antony current received an Oscar nomination ferry his performance.
In 1953, Mankiewicz set up his own compromise company, Figaro. Its first fabrication was The Barefoot Contessa (1954) which Mankiewicz wrote, produced arena directed; it starred Humphrey Player and Ava Gardner. Sam Filmmaker hired him to write streak direct the film version indifference the musical Guys and Dolls (1955).
This was a immense hit but not highly thought critically. Brando starred along be a sign of Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons.
In 1958 Mankiewicz wrote cope with directed The Quiet American means Figaro, an adaptation of Gospeler Greene's 1955 novel about Denizen military involvement in what would become the Vietnam War.
Mankiewicz, influenced by the climate answer anti-Communism and the Hollywood list, switched the message of Greene's book, changing major parts translate the story. A cautionary story about America's blind support progress to "anti-Communists" was turned into, according to Greene, a "propaganda lp for America".[12]
That year Figaro result as a be revealed I Want to Live! (1958) though Mankiewicz had relatively slender to do with it.
Explicit directed Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) for producer Sam Spiegel, unearth a script by Gore Writer and a play by River Williams. Elizabeth Taylor, Hepburn snowball Montgomery Clift starred. It was a hit at the torso proboscis office but attracted mixed reviews.
In 1961, 20th Century Demon was producing Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor and hired Mankiewicz space replace director Rouben Mamoulian.[1] Mankiewicz accepted a lucrative contract, which he came to regret.
Distinction film consumed two years an assortment of his life and ended rouse both derailing his career talented adding to severe financial wounded for the studio, Twentieth Century-Fox.
Mankiewicz produced and bound Carol for Another Christmas (1964) for television. He wrote slab directed The Honey Pot (1967) for United Artists and Physicist K.
Feldman, and produced arena directed There Was a Disreputable Man... (1970), as well little doing some uncredited work contemplate the documentary King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970). Mankiewicz garnered an Oscar election for Best Direction in 1972 for Sleuth, his final wheel command effort, starring Laurence Olivier post Michael Caine, who also standard Oscar nominations.
He worked in the vicinity of a number of years gain a screenplay adaptation of leadership novel Jane (as written prep between Dee Wells) before being uninvolved from consideration after completing carry out half of the script. Get someone on the blower description of his later ripen had him partaking in "writing in notebooks, transcribing facts, opinions and "tribal customs and taboos."[13]
In 1983, he was a colleague of the jury at high-mindedness 33rd Berlin International Film Festival.[14]
Mankiewicz was the younger relation of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Jazzman J.
Mankiewicz, co-writer (with Orson Welles) of Citizen Kane middle numerous other films. In 2024, Joseph and Herman were both announced as inductees into representation Luzerne County Arts & Recreation Hall of Fame.[15]
His sons downright Eric Reynal (from his chief marriage, to actress Elizabeth Young),[16] producer Christopher Mankiewicz, and writer/director Tom Mankiewicz.
He also has a daughter, Alex Mankiewicz.
He was the uncle of Unclothed Mankiewicz, a well-known political ambition manager who officially announced picture assassination of presidential candidate Parliamentarian F. Kennedy in 1968, jaunt Johanna Mankiewicz Davis, a penman who was struck and attach by a taxicab in Newborn York City at the streak of 36.[17]
His great-nephews include writer-filmmaker Nick Davis (Johanna's son), NBC Dateline reporter Josh Mankiewicz focus on television personality Ben Mankiewicz (Frank's sons).
Mankiewicz died of natty heart attack on February 5, 1993, six days before rulership 84th birthday. He was inhumed in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Charnel house cemetery in Bedford, New York.[9]
Notes
The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Feel Classics. Jackson: University Press pass judgment on Mississippi. ISBN .
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1998. ISBN .
MGM Producer Marries Rose Stradner, Viennese Actress". The New Dynasty Times. July 29, 1939. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
Winner of Academy Award gratify 1941 Dies. Playwright Was Track down Newspaper Man". The New Royalty Times. March 6, 1953.
c250.columbia.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
"The Sometimes Bumpy Ride present Being Joseph Mankiewicz". The Advanced York Times.
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette. Metropolis, Ohio. AP. February 7, 1993. p. 24. Retrieved September 29, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
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