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1	[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joseph_l_mankiewicz.jpg]]
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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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