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Born February 11, 1909. Died February 5, 1993 (83) Add to list. Won 4 Oscars. 21 wins & 26 nominations total. Photos 25. Known for. All About Eve. 8.2. Writer. 1950. Cleopatra. 7.0. Writer. 1963. A Letter to Three Wives. 7.7. Writer. 1949. Sleuth.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Writer: All About Eve. 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).
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 ...
All About Eve: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm. A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Apr 24, 2024 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American producer, director, and screenwriter known for his witty, urbane dialogue and memorable characters. He earned the reputation of being a talented actor’s director in such movies as No Way Out; All About Eve; The Barefoot Contessa; Guys and Dolls; Suddenly, Last Summer; and Sleuth.
Aug 29, 2011 · The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to offer this complete retrospective of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's twenty feature films as a rare opportunity to reconsider a simultaneously foundational and iconoclastic artist of the American cinema.
Feb 5, 1993 · Biography. Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of the Oscar-winning All About Eve (1950). He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic Herman J. Mankiewicz who also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941).
