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Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (/ ˈ m æ ŋ k ə w ɪ t s /; February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. A four-time Academy Award winner, he is best known for his witty and literate dialogue and his preference for voice-over narration and narrative flashbacks . [ 1 ]
A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American romantic drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell and Ann Sothern.The film was adapted by Vera Caspary and written for the screen by Mankiewicz from A Letter to Five Wives, a story by John Klempner that appeared in Cosmopolitan, based on Klempner's 1945 novel.
[1]: 107 In mid 1948, she became romantically involved with Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the director of A Letter to Three Wives, and in July 1948 she filed for divorce. Mankiewicz, however, was unwilling to leave his wife for Darnell, and though the affair continued for six years, she returned to her husband.
At MGM, Stradner met Joseph L. Mankiewicz, where he was instructed to help improve her English as he had with other German-speaking actresses. [6] [22] The two were married on July 28, 1939, [23] at Mankiewicz's sister's apartment in New York. When they returned to Los Angeles, on Stradner's 26th birthday, MGM studio writers and producers ...
With David Fincher’s film Mank reviving the legend of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, a descendant of the Citizen Kane scribe and his equally fabled brother, Joseph, will have his dual biography ...
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (/ˈmæŋkəwɪts/; 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 ...
Young was the first wife of writer-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with whom she had a son, Eric. [3] She was next married to publisher Eugene Reynal; they divorced in 1946. [2] In 1948, Young wed Hugh Walker, a furniture manufacturer. [4] Young's final husband was Henry Darbee, a Connecticut architect, whom she married in 1971. [5]
Josh Mankiewicz (left) poses with newlyweds Sara Runnels (middle) and her husband, Adam, after officiating their wedding on Oct. 12, 2024. Alexandrae Photo