Mankiewicz in a sentence

Based on the successful comic strips of the same name by was adapted to the screen by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

But much more fuss in general has been made over John Ford than Herman Mankiewicz, my grandfather––as it should be.

She is survived by her bumbling, bald butler, Ben Mankiewicz, and anyone who pretends to love old movies because they can not deal with their own pathetic realities.

As Meryman reports, wartime and postwar Hollywood also became home to a new generation of executives and producers, for whom Mankiewicz’s Round Table roots and journalistic tumult were more a matter of quaint nostalgia than of unquestioned admiration.

Fincher’s first film in six years is a portrait of 1930s Hollywood, with Oldman’s screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz at the center — though most people just call him Mank.

He also recruited his brother Joseph L Mankiewicz who, as the film shows, had an even more successful career than Herman throughout the 1930s.

In the end, Mankiewicz was cursed by the fact that he didn’t see the movies as an art at all, while Welles made his far greater mark because he never saw them as anything but.

Mankiewicz took it upon himself to provide a copy of the script to Charles Lederer, a friend and screenwriter who also happened to be the nephew of Hearst’s mistress, the actress Marion Davies.

Oldman makes a terrific Mankiewicz, sizing up the world around him as if it were all a comic mirage and he were the only real thing in it.

The David Fincher-directed drama from a script written by his father Howard Fincher about Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz has emerged as an awards season frontrunner.

To be clear: Mankiewicz did do a lot of work on the script, and he did work on a draft completely on his own.

Over dinner at Lansdale’s Rue Duy Tan house, Mankiewicz said he had bought film rights to “to prevent the British or French from making an anti-U.

This presentation will also include specially produced commentary before and after the feature by TCM Primetime Host Ben Mankiewicz.

You know, because Josh Mankiewicz loves loves pocket squares.

Berg (2004) p. 209. She clashed with director Joseph L. Mankiewicz during filming, which culminated with her spitting at him in disgust.

Burton and Taylor supported Mankiewicz, with the former saying the director "might have made the first really good epic film".

Channing had originally been conceived as genteel and knowingly humorous, but with the casting of Davis, Mankiewicz revised the character to be more abrasive.

However, it was Mankiewicz's script that was still being used to guide the project.

In 1949, Mankiewicz was considering a story about an aging actress and, upon reading "The Wisdom of Eve", felt the conniving girl would be a useful added element.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz lived with Tracy during the production of Test Pilot, and recounted that the actor would lock himself in his bedroom "working extremely hard" each night.