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🎬 Filmography

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Sleuth

1972 · Director

Cleopatra

1963 · Director

Suddenly, Last Summer

1959 · Director

Guys and Dolls

1955 · Director

The Barefoot Contessa

1954 · Director

Julius Caesar

1953 · Director

All About Eve

1950 · Director · Creator

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · Director

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Overview

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; 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 Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scène. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a writer and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at 20th Century Fox. Over six years, he made 11 films for Fox. During his over 40-year career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote 48 screenplays. He also produced more than 20 films, including The Philadelphia Story (1940) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Woman of the Year (1942), for which he introduced Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy.

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Notable quotes

“I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.”
— Time magazine (September 14, 1970)
“I have a lot to be sad about. Not bitter in any way. But I think it can be fairly said that I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.”
— "Joseph Mankiewicz, Master of the Movies," interview by Paul Attanasio, The Washington Post (June 1, 1986)
“I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.”
— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 15th edition (Harper Collins, 2003, , p. 312
“Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.”
— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 15th edition (Harper Collins, 2003, , p. 312

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; 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 Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylized mise en scène. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a writer and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at 20th Century Fox. Over six years, he made 11 films for Fox. During his over 40-year career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote 48 screenplays. He also produced more than 20 films, including The Philadelphia Story (1940) which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Woman of the Year (1942), for which he introduced Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (; 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 Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six.

Notable quotes

“I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.”
— Time magazine (September 14, 1970)
“I have a lot to be sad about. Not bitter in any way. But I think it can be fairly said that I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.”
— "Joseph Mankiewicz, Master of the Movies," interview by Paul Attanasio, The Washington Post (June 1, 1986)
“I got a job at Metro and went in to see Louis Mayer, who told me he wanted me to be a producer. I said I wanted to write and direct. He said, "No, you have to produce first, you have to crawl before you can walk." Which is as good a definition of producing as I ever heard.”
— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 15th edition (Harper Collins, 2003, , p. 312
“Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.”
— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 15th edition (Harper Collins, 2003, , p. 312

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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🎬 Filmography

Screen catalogue →

Sleuth

1972 · Director

Cleopatra

1963 · Director

Suddenly, Last Summer

1959 · Director

Guys and Dolls

1955 · Director

The Barefoot Contessa

1954 · Director

Julius Caesar

1953 · Director

All About Eve

1950 · Director · Creator

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · Director