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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.
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 ]
[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.
A Letter to Three Wives: Sadie Dugan Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Uncredited City Across the River: Mrs. Katie Cusack Maxwell Shane: Father Was a Fullback: Geraldine John M. Stahl: 1950 Perfect Strangers: Lena Fassler Bretaigne Windust: I'll Get By: Miss Murphy Richard Sale: All About Eve: Birdie Coonan Joseph L. Mankiewicz: 1951 The Mating Season ...
The Honey Pot, also known as The Honeypot, is a 1967 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.It stars Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine, Edie Adams, and Maggie Smith.
Dragonwyck is a 1946 American period drama film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. [4] [5] It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Ernst Lubitsch (uncredited), from a screenplay by Mankiewicz, based on the novel Dragonwyck by Anya Seton.
The Mankiewicz family is an American family of German-Jewish descent, with members including: Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), Hollywood screenwriter (1 Oscar) (brother of Joseph) Don Mankiewicz (1922–2015), screenwriter (son of Herman) John Mankiewicz (born 1954), screenwriter and producer (son of Don)
House of Strangers is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, and Richard Conte. [2] [3] The screenplay by Philip Yordan and Mankiewicz (who chose to go uncredited) is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's novel I'll Never Go There Any More, the other two adaptations are the Spencer Tracy western ...