Brothers Mankiewicz
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1930s movies
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Academy Award winning director
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Algonquin Round Table
All About Eve
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Ben Mankiewicz
Bette Davis
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Citizen Kane
Cleopatra
Darryl F. Zanuck
David Fincher
director
Don Mankiewicz
Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra
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Frank Mankiewicz
Gary Oldman
Gene Tierney
George S. Kaufman
George Sanders
Golden Age of movies
Groucho Marx
Guys and Dolls
Harpo Marx
Hollywood Golden Age
Hollywood history
Hollywood studio system
Horsefeathers
Jack Fincher
Joan Crawford
Joe Mankiewicz
John Houseman
John Mankiewicz
Josh Mankiewicz
Judy Garland
Julius Caesar film
Kane
Lily Collins
Mad Dog of Europe
Mank
Marilyn Monroe
Marion Davies
Marlon Brando
Marx Brothers
MGM history
Monkey Business
Movie
Netflix
New Yorker
Nicholas Ray
No Way Out
Orson Welles
Oscar winners
Paramount history
Pride of the Yankees
Rex Harrison
Rita Alexander
RKO history
San Simeon
Sara Mankiewicz
Screen Directors Guild
screenwriter
Screenwriters Guild
Silent movies title writer
Sleuth
theater critic
Theatre arts
Tom Burke
Tom Mankiewicz
Tom Pelphrey
Tuppence Middleton
Weinstein
Welles
William Randolph Hearst
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- ISBN 9781496840851
- Weight: 662g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award
Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association
Herman J. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture.
Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra, and Pride of the Yankees and Guys and Dolls, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have—a career in New York theater. Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitué, New York Times and New Yorker theater critic, and playwright-collaborator with George S. Kaufman, never reconciled himself to screenwriting. He gambled away his prodigious earnings, was fired from all the major studios, and drank himself to death at fifty-five. While Herman drifted downward, Joe rose to become a critical and financial success as a writer, producer, and director, though his constant philandering with prominent stars like Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Gene Tierney distressed his emotionally fragile wife who eventually committed suicide. He wrecked his own health using uppers and downers in order to direct Cleopatra by day and finish writing it at night, only to be very publicly fired by Darryl F. Zanuck, an experience from which Joe never fully recovered.
For this first dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters, diaries, and other documents still in private hands to provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these complex men.
Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation
Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association
Herman J. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture.
Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra, and Pride of the Yankees and Guys and Dolls, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have—a career in New York theater. Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitué, New York Times and New Yorker theater critic, and playwright-collaborator with George S. Kaufman, never reconciled himself to screenwriting. He gambled away his prodigious earnings, was fired from all the major studios, and drank himself to death at fifty-five. While Herman drifted downward, Joe rose to become a critical and financial success as a writer, producer, and director, though his constant philandering with prominent stars like Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Gene Tierney distressed his emotionally fragile wife who eventually committed suicide. He wrecked his own health using uppers and downers in order to direct Cleopatra by day and finish writing it at night, only to be very publicly fired by Darryl F. Zanuck, an experience from which Joe never fully recovered.
For this first dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters, diaries, and other documents still in private hands to provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these complex men.
Sydney Ladensohn Stern, a New York–based freelance writer, has contributed to the New York Times, Air Mail, Literary Hub, Publishers Weekly, Criterion’s The Current, and many other publications. She is author of Toyland: The High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry, a Book of the Month Club pick, and Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique. For more information, go to sydneylstern.com.
