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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Joseph_LJoseph L. Mankiewicz - Wikipedia

    See Mankiewicz family. Joseph Leo Mankiewicz ( / ˈmæŋkəwɪts /; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won both the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in consecutive years for A Letter to ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cleopatra_(1963_film)Cleopatra (1963 film) - Wikipedia

    Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.

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  4. www.nytimes.com › 1993/02/06 › moviesJoseph L. Mankiewicz, Literate Skeptic of the Cinema, Dies at ...

    Feb 6, 1993 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a writer, director and producer who was one of Hollywood's most literate and intelligent film makers, died yesterday at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco,...

  5. www.sensesofcinema.com › mankiewiczMankiewicz, Joseph L. – Senses of Cinema

    Apr 15, 2005 · Despite an oeuvre comprising only 20 feature films, Joseph L. Mankiewicz explored a number of genres and styles in his work: gothic (Dragonwyck, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Suddenly, Last Summer); film noir (Somewhere in the Night); musical comedy (Guys and Dolls); Shavian comedy (All About Eve, People Will Talk); Shakespearean tragedy (Julius ...

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  7. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000581Joseph L. Mankiewicz - IMDb

    Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928).

  8. harvardfilmarchive.org › programs › the-completeThe Complete Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Harvard Film Archive

    Aug 29, 2011 · July 22–August 29, 2011. The Complete Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The brilliant films and career of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) have long occupied a paradoxical and stubbornly unclassifiable place in the history of the American cinema.