biography
| name: |
Mankiewicz, Herman J
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pronunciation:
[mangkuhvich]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1897–1953)
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| biography:
| Screenwriter and film producer, born in New York, New York, USA. The brother of Joseph Mankiewicz, he began as a newspaper journalist, first as a foreign correspondent in Berlin, then as a New York drama editor. He moved to Hollywood (1926), where he wrote many screenplays and adaptations and served as an executive producer on various films. He became embroiled in a controversy over the Academy Award-winning script for Citizen Kane (1941), which Orson Welles originally claimed to have written, but for which knowledgeable people insist Mankiewicz deserves most credit. |
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