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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

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Author

Sydney Ladensohn Stern; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617032684

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Memoir, Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (253 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14