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Mankiewicz was born in New York City in 1897. His parents were German-Jewish immigrants: his father, Franz Mankiewicz, was born in Berlin and emigrated to the U.S. from Hamburg in 1892. [5] [9] [10] In New York he met his wife, Johanna Blumenau, [1] a seamstress from the German-speaking Kurland region of Latvia.
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 130477353. Source citation. Johanna was the mother of Herman J. Mankiewicz playwright and film writer and, 20th Century Fox producer Joe Mankiewicz.
Dec 4, 2020 · Herman J. Mankiewicz was born in November of 1897, the son of Franz Mankiewicz and Johanna Blumenau. Not much is known about the Mankiewicz’s before they emigrated to the United States in the 1890s but one thing is for sure: They were likely fleeing the rampant anti-Semitism of the post-pogrom German states for the relative safety of the land ...
Nov 7, 2013 · Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was born in New York to Franz Mankiewicz and the former Johanna Blumenau, both of them German-born Jewish immigrants. Johanna was a dressmaker, and Franz an editor and teacher who moved the family to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, when he received a job editing a German-language newspaper there.
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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was born on February 11, 1909, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His parents, Frank Mankiewicz and Johanna Blumenau, also had an older son, Herman Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz went to a local grade school and completed high school at age 15. In 1928, Mankiewicz graduated from Columbia University after studying language and ...
Feb 6, 1993 · Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was born on Feb. 11, 1909, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the third child of Frank Mankiewicz and the former Johanna Blumenau, both immigrants from Germany.
mother: Johanna Blumenau. siblings: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. children: Don Mankiewicz, Frank Mankiewicz, Johanna Mankiewicz Davis. Born Country: United States. Screenwriters American Men. Height: 5'10" (178 cm ), 5'10" Males. Died on: March 5, 1953. place of death: Los Angeles, California, United States. Ancestry: German American.
