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3 | -> '''Michel Ciment:''' Were you ever disillusioned with Hollywood?\ |
4 | '''Joseph L. Mankiewicz:''' You can't fall in with a band of thieves and then complain about losing your virginity. I was never ''illusioned'' with Hollywood. |
5 | -->-- ''All About Mankiewicz'' |
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7 | Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. |
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9 | He started out as a writer at Paramount for movies featuring, among others, Jack Oakie and Creator/WCFields. When he moved to MGM in the mid-'30s, he became a producer, producing such well-known works as ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'' and ''Film/WomanOfTheYear.'' In the mid-'40s, he moved to 20th Century Fox and became a director, best known for such films as ''Film/ALetterToThreeWives'' and ''Film/AllAboutEve''. In the early '50s, he left Fox and became independent, and later directed the infamously troubled ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' in 1963. His final film was ''Theatre/{{Sleuth}}''. |
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11 | Younger brother of Herman Mankiewicz (best known for co-writing ''Film/CitizenKane''), father of Tom Mankiewicz (who wrote several ''Film/JamesBond'' films), and great-uncle of Creator/TurnerClassicMovies host Ben Mankiewicz. |
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13 | Creator/TomPelphrey portrays him in ''Film/{{Mank}}'', the {{biopic}} about Herman (who's played by Creator/GaryOldman). |
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15 | !!Films directed by Mankiewicz with pages on TV Tropes include: |
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17 | [[index]] |
18 | * ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' (1947) |
19 | * ''Film/ALetterToThreeWives'' (1949) |
20 | * ''Film/AllAboutEve'' (1950) – his signature film. |
21 | * ''[[Film/FiveFingers1952 5 Fingers]]'' (1952) |
22 | * ''Film/{{Julius Caesar|1953}}'' (1953) – featuring Creator/MarlonBrando as Mark Antony. |
23 | * ''Film/TheBarefootContessa'' (1954) |
24 | * ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'' (1955) |
25 | * ''Literature/TheQuietAmerican'' (1958) |
26 | * ''Theatre/SuddenlyLastSummer'' (1959) |
27 | * ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}'' (1963) – the film that nearly broke a studio. |
28 | * ''Film/KingAFilmedRecordMontgomeryToMemphis'' (1970)(documentary, co-directed with Creator/SidneyLumet) |
29 | * ''Film/ThereWasACrookedMan'' (1970) |
30 | * ''Theatre/{{Sleuth}}'' (1972) |
31 | [[/index]] |
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33 | !!Mankiewicz's films include the following tropes: |
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35 | * DeadpanSnarker: One of the trademarks of his films, [[Film/AllAboutEve Addison DeWitt]] being the most notable example. |
36 | * {{Flashback}}: Mankiewicz was fond of this as a storytelling device; ''A Letter to Three Wives'' and ''All About Eve'' use it to particularly good effect. |
37 | * WriterOnBoard: One of the main criticisms of his work was his overuse of this trope. |
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