biography
| name: |
Mankiewicz, Joseph L(eo)
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pronunciation:
[mangkuhvich]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1909–93)
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| biography:
| Film director, producer, and screenwriter, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA, the brother of Herman J Mankiewicz. As a foreign correspondent in Berlin, he began translating German silent-film titles into English, then went to Hollywood (1929) to write titles and screenplays for Paramount. By 1936 he was a producer for Paramount, then Fox, directing his first film Dragonwyck in 1946. He went on to direct a series of literate, if overly literary films, winning Oscars for both screenplay and direction for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950). |
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