Editing Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (1909-1993)

{{Infobox person
| name                  = Joseph L. Mankiewicz
| image                 = Joseph L. Mankiewicz.jpg
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| caption               = 
| birth_name             = Joseph Leo Mankiewicz
| birth_date             = {{Birth date|1909|02|11}}
| birth_place            = [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date             = {{Death date and age|1993|02|05|1909|02|11}}
| death_place            = [[Bedford (town), New York|Bedford, New York]], U.S.
| other_names             = 
| occupation            = Writer, Director, Producer 
| years_active           = 1929 - 72
| spouse                = 
}}

'''Joseph Leo Mankiewicz''' (11 February 1909 &ndash; 5 February 1993) was an [[United States|American]] [[film director]], [[screenwriter]], and [[film producer|producer]]. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of ''[[All About Eve]]'' (1950), which was nominated for 14 [[Academy Award]]s and won six. He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] who also won an Oscar for co-writing ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941).

==Early life==
Joseph Mankiewicz was born in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]] to Franz Mankiewicz (died 1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish immigrants from [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives|year=1998|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]]|quote=Mankiewicz was the youngest of three children born to the German immigrants Franz Mankiewicz, a secondary schoolteacher, and Johanna Blumenau, a homemaker.|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FVUYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Franz+Mankiewicz%22&dq=%22Franz+Mankiewicz%22&pgis=1|isbn=0684806207}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Joseph L. Mankiewicz|year=1983|quote=The father, Franz Mankiewicz, emigrated from Germany in 1892, living first in New York and then moving to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in to take a job ...|isbn=0805792910}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|quote=Mankiewicz, Mr. Frank, dearly beloved husband of Johanna, devoted father of Herman, Joseph, and Mrs. [[Erna Stenbuck]]. Services Park West Memorial Chapel, ...|title=Dr. Frank Mankiewicz |work=[[New York Times]]|date=1941-12-05|accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref> He had a sister, [[Erna Mankiewicz]] (1901–1979), and a brother, [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]], who became a screenwriter.<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph Mankiewicz Weds. MGM Producer Marries Rose Stradner, Viennese Actress|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C15FA3954107A93CBAB178CD85F4D8385F9 |work=[[New York Times]]|date=1939-07-29|accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck, 78, Retired New York Schoolteacher|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071FF9355C12728DDDA00994D0405B898BF1D3|quote=Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck, a retired, teacher in the New York City schools, died Aug. 1 in Villach, Austria, where she had lived for several years. She was 78 years old. ... She was married in ... to Dr. Joseph Stenbuck, a New York City surgeon who died in 1951. They had no children. She is survived by a brother, Joseph L. ... |work=[[New York Times]]|date=1979-08-19|accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=H. J. Mankiewicz, Screenwriter, 56. Winner of Academy Award in 1941 Dies. Playwright Was Former Newspaper Man. |quote=His brother, Joseph, is a well known screen author, producer and director. ... A sister, Mrs. Erna Stenbuck of New York, also survives.|work=[[New York Times]]|date=1953-03-06 |accessdate=2008-07-02}}</ref>

At age four, Mankiewicz moved with his family to [[New York City]] where he graduated in 1924 from [[Stuyvesant High School]].<ref name=nytobit/> In 1928, he obtained a [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Columbia University]]. For a time he worked in [[Berlin]], Germany, as a foreign correspondent for the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' newspaper before entering the [[motion picture]] business.

==Hollywood career==
Comfortable in a variety of genres and able to elicit career performances from actors and actresses alike, Joseph L. Mankiewicz combined ironic, sophisticated scripts with a precise, sometimes stylised ''mise en scène''. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for [[Paramount Studios|Paramount]] and as a producer for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] before getting a chance to direct at [[Twentieth Century-Fox]]. Over six years he made 11 films for Fox, reaching a peak in 1950 and 1951 when he won consecutive [[Academy Award]]s for Screenplay and Direction for both ''A Letter to Three Wives'' and ''All About Eve''.

During his long career in Hollywood, Mankiewicz wrote forty-eight screenplays, including ''[[All About Eve]]'', for which he won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]. He also produced more than twenty films including ''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]'' which was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]] in 1941. However, he is best known for the films he directed, twice winning the [[Academy Award for Best Director]]. In 1944, he produced ''[[The Keys of the Kingdom (film)|The Keys of the Kingdom]]'', which starred [[Gregory Peck]], and featured Mankiewicz's then-wife, Rose Stradner, in a supporting role as a nun.

In 1951, Mankiewicz left Fox and moved to New York, intending to write for the Broadway stage. Although this dream never materialised, he continued to make films (both for his own production company Figaro and as a director-for-hire) that explored his favourite themes — the clash of aristocrat with commoner, life as performance and the clash between people's urge to control their fate and the contingencies of real life. 
{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} 

In 1953, he directed ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]'' for [[MGM]], an adaptation of Shakespeare's play. It received widely favorable reviews, and [[David Shipman (author)|David Shipman]], author of the book ''The Great Movie Stars: The Hollywood Years'', called it "perhaps the finest Shakespeare film ever made". The film serves as the only record of [[Marlon Brando]] in a Shakespearean role; he played [[Mark Antony]], and received an Oscar nomination for his performance.

In 1958, Mankiewicz directed ''[[The Quiet American (1958 film)|The Quiet American]]'', an adaptation of [[Graham Greene]]'s 1955 [[The Quiet American|novel]] about the seed of American military involvement in what would become the [[Vietnam War]]. Mankiewicz, under career pressure from the climate of [[anti-Communism]] and the [[Hollywood blacklist]], distorted the message of Greene's book, changing major parts of the story to appeal to a [[nationalism|nationalistic]] audience. A cautionary tale about America's blind support for "anti-Communists" was turned into, according to Greene, a "propaganda film for America".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/14/thriller-ridley-scott | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=An offer they couldn't refuse | first=Matthew | last=Alford | date=2008-11-14}}</ref>

''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' consumed three years of Mankiewicz's life and ended up both derailing his career and causing severe financial losses for the studio, Twentieth Century-Fox. Mankiewicz made more films, however, garnering an Oscar nomination for Best Direction in 1972 for ''[[Sleuth (1972 film)|Sleuth]]'', his final directing effort, starring [[Laurence Olivier]] and [[Michael Caine]]. {{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} In 1983, he was a member of the jury at the [[33rd Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1983/04_jury_1983/04_Jury_1983.html |title=Berlinale: 1983 Juries |accessdate=2010-11-14 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref>

He was the younger brother of [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]]. His sons are Eric Reynal (from his first marriage), the late writer/director [[Tom Mankiewicz]] and producer Christopher Mankiewicz. He also has a daughter, Alex Mankiewicz. His great-nephew is radio & television personality [[Ben Mankiewicz]], currently on [[Turner Classic Movies|TCM]].

Mankiewicz, who died in 1993, six days before his 84th birthday, was interred in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard cemetery, [[Bedford (CDP), New York|Bedford]], [[New York]].<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5D9113AF935A35751C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print|date=1993-02-06|title=Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Literate Skeptic of the Cinema, Dies at 83|quote=Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a writer, director and producer who was one of Hollywood's most literate and intelligent film makers, died yesterday at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 83 and lived in Bedford, N.Y.|first=Peter|last=Flint|work=[[New York Times]]|accessdate=2007-11-01}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===Director===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Production company
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Cast
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes
|-
|rowspan=3|1946 
| ''[[Dragonwyck (film)|Dragonwyck]]''
|rowspan=18| [[20th Century Fox]] 
| [[Gene Tierney]] / [[Vincent Price]] 
|
|- 
| ''[[Backfire (1946 film)|Backfire]]'' 
| [[Richard Conte]] / [[John Ireland (actor)|John Ireland]] 
| 
|-
| ''[[Somewhere in the Night (film)|Somewhere in the Night]]''
| [[Richard Conte]] / [[John Hodiak]] / [[Nancy Guild]] 
|
|- 
|rowspan=2|1947 
| ''[[The Late George Apley (film)|The Late George Apley]]'' 
| [[Ronald Colman]] 
| 
|-
| ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]''
| [[Gene Tierney]] / [[Rex Harrison]] / [[George Sanders]] 
|
|-
|1948 
| ''[[Escape (1948 film)|Escape]]'' 
| [[Rex Harrison]] / [[Peggy Cummins]] / [[William Hartnell]] 
| 
|-
|rowspan=2|1949 
| ''[[A Letter to Three Wives]]''
| [[Jeanne Crain]] / [[Linda Darnell]] / [[Ann Southern]] 
|
|- 
| ''[[House of Strangers]]'' 
| [[Edward G. Robinson]] / [[Susan Hayward]] / [[Richard Conte]] 
| 
|-
|rowspan=2|1950 
| ''[[No Way Out (1950 film)|No Way Out]]''
| [[Richard Widmark]] / [[Sidney Poitier]] / [[Linda Darnell]] 
| 
|-
| ''[[All About Eve]]'' 
| [[Bette Davis]] / [[Anne Baxter]] / [[George Sanders]] 
| 
|-
|1951 
| ''[[People Will Talk]]''
| [[Cary Grant]] / [[Jeanne Crain]] / [[Hume Cronyn]] 
|
|-
|1952 
| ''[[5 Fingers]]'' 
| [[James Mason]] / [[Danielle Darrieux]] 
| 
|-
|1953 
| ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]''
| [[Marlon Brando]] / [[James Mason]] / [[John Gielgud]] 
| 
|- 
|1954 
| ''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]'' 
| [[Humphrey Bogart]] / [[Ava Gardner]] 
| [[Technicolor]] film
|-
|1955 
| ''[[Guys and Dolls (film)|Guys and Dolls]]''
| [[Marlon Brando]] / [[Jean Simmons]] / [[Frank Sinatra]] 
| [[Eastmancolor]] film
|-
|1958 
| ''[[The Quiet American (1958 film)|The Quiet American]]''
| [[Audie Murphy]] / [[Graham Greene]] 
| 
|- 
|1959 
| ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]'' 
| [[Elizabeth Taylor]] / [[Montgomery Clift]] / [[Katharine Hepburn]] 
| 
|-
|1963 
| ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| [[Elizabeth Taylor]] 
| Color film
|- 
|1964 
| ''[[Carol for Another Christmas]]'' 
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] 
| [[Sterling Hayden]] / [[Peter Sellers]] 
| [[Television]] film
|-
|1967 
| ''[[The Honey Pot]]''
| [[Famous Artists Productions]] 
| [[Rex Harrison]] / [[Susan Hayward]] / [[Maggie Smith]] 
| [[Technicolor]] film
|- 
|rowspan=2|1970 
| ''[[King: a Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis]]'' 
| [[Commonwealth United Entertainment]] 
|  
| Co-directed with [[Sidney Lumet]] / [[Documentary]] film
|-
| ''[[There Was a Crooked Man...]]''
| [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]] 
| [[Kirk Douglas]] / [[Henry Fonda]] / [[Hume Cronyn]] 
| [[Technicolor]] film
|- 
|1972 
| ''[[Sleuth (1972 film)|Sleuth]]'' 
| [[Palomar Pictures]] 
| [[Laurence Olivier]] / [[Michael Caine]] 
| Color film
|}

===Writer===
{{div col|cols=3}}
*''[[Fast Company (1929 film)|Fast Company]]'' (1929) ''co-writer''
*''[[Slightly Scarlet (1930 film)|Slightly Scarlet]]'' (1930) ''co-writer''
*''[[Paramount on Parade]]'' (1930)
*''The Social Lion'' (1931) ''Adaptation''
*''Only Saps Work'' (1931) ''co-writer''
*''The Gang Buster'' (1931)
*''Finn & Hattie'' (1931)
*''[[June Moon]]'' (1931) ''co-writer''
*''[[Skippy (1931 film)|Skippy]]'' (1931) ''co-writer''
*''Newly Rich'' (1931) ''co-writer''
*''Sooky'' (1931) ''co-writer''
*''This Reckless Age'' (1932) ''co-writer''
*''Sky Bride'' (1932) ''co-writer''
*''[[Million Dollar Legs (1932 film)|Million Dollar Legs]]'' (1932) ''Story''
*''[[If I Had A Million]]'' (1932) ''(segments "China Shop", "Three Marines", "Violet") Uncredited''
*''Diplomaniacs'' (1933) ''co-writer''
*''Emergency Call'' (1933) ''co-writer''
*''Too Much Harmony'' (1933) ''Story''
*''Alice In Wonderland'' (1933) ''co-writer''
*''[[Manhattan Melodrama]]'' (1934) ''co-writer''
*''[[Our Daily Bread (1934 film)|Our Daily Bread]]'' (1934) ''Dialogue''
*''Forsaking All Others'' (1934)
*''I Live My Life'' (1935)
*''[[The Keys of the Kingdom (film)|The Keys of the Kingdom]]'' (1944) ''co-writer''
*''[[Dragonwyck (film)|Dragonwyck]]'' (1946)
*''[[Somewhere in the Night (film)|Somewhere in the Night]]'' (1946) ''co-writer''
*''[[A Letter to Three Wives]]'' (1949)
*''[[House of Strangers]]'' (1949) ''Uncredited''
*''[[No Way Out (1950 film)|No Way Out]]'' (1950) ''co-writer''
*''[[All About Eve]]'' (1950)
*''[[People Will Talk]]'' (1951)
*''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]'' (1953) ''Uncredited''
*''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]'' (1954)
*''[[Guys and Dolls (film)|Guys and Dolls]]'' (1955)
*''[[The Quiet American (1958 film)|The Quiet American]]'' (1958)
*''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (1963) ''co-writer''
*''[[The Honey Pot]]'' (1967)
{{div col end}}

==Awards==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Result
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Category
|-
! colspan="8"  style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"|'''[[Academy Awards]]'''
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[4th Academy Awards|1931]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Skippy (1931 film)|Skippy]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[14th Academy Awards|1941]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| [[A Letter to Three Wives]]
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|-
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| [[24th Academy Awards|1951]]
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| [[All About Eve]]
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Director
|-
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Original Screenplay
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[No Way Out (1950 film)|No Way Out]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Original Screenplay
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[26th Academy Awards|1953]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[5 Fingers]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Director
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[28th Academy Awards|1955]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[The Barefoot Contessa]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Original Screenplay
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| [[46th Academy Awards|1973]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Sleuth (1972 film)|Sleuth]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Director
|-
! colspan="8"  style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"|'''[[Directors Guild of America]]'''
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1949
| style="text-align:center;"| A Letter to Three Wives
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Outstanding Directorial Achievement
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1951
| style="text-align:center;"| All About Eve
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Outstanding Directorial Achievement
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1953
| style="text-align:center;"| 5 Fingers
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Outstanding Directorial Achievement
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1954
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Outstanding Directorial Achievement
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1981
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Honorary Life Member Award
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1986
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Lifetime Achievement Award
|-
! colspan="8"  style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"|'''[[Writers Guild of America]]'''
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1950
| style="text-align:center;"| A Letter to Three Wives
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Written American Comedy
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| 1951
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| All About Eve
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Written American Comedy
|-
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Written American Drama
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| No Way Out
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| The Robert Meltzer Award
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1952
| style="text-align:center;"| [[People Will Talk]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Written American Comedy
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1955
| style="text-align:center;"| The Barefoot Contessa
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Written American Drama
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1956
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Guys and Dolls (film)|Guys and Dolls]]
| {{nom}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Best Written American Musical
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| 1963
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| {{won}}
| style="text-align:center;"| Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement
|}

===Directed Academy Award Performances===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%"
|- style="text-align:center;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Performer
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Result
|-
| colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|'''[[Academy Award for Best Actor]]'''
|-
| [[25th Academy Awards|1953]]
| [[Marlon Brando]] 
| ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)|Julius Caesar]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[36th Academy Awards|1963]]
| [[Rex Harrison]] 
| ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[45th Academy Awards|1972]]
| [[Michael Caine]] 
| ''[[Sleuth (1972 film)|Sleuth]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[45th Academy Awards|1972]]
| [[Laurence Olivier]] 
| ''[[Sleuth (1972 film)|Sleuth]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|'''[[Academy Award for Best Actress]]'''
|-
| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| [[Anne Baxter]] 
| ''[[All About Eve]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| [[Bette Davis]] 
| ''[[All About Eve]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[32nd Academy Awards|1959]]
| [[Katharine Hepburn]] 
| ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[32nd Academy Awards|1959]]
| [[Elizabeth Taylor]] 
| ''[[Suddenly, Last Summer (film)|Suddenly, Last Summer]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|'''[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]]'''
|-
| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| [[George Sanders]] 
| ''[[All About Eve]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[27th Academy Awards|1954]]
| [[Edmond O'Brien]] 
| ''[[The Barefoot Contessa]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| colspan="8" style="text-align:center;"|'''[[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]'''
|-
| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| [[Celeste Holm]] 
| ''[[All About Eve]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[23rd Academy Awards|1950]]
| [[Thelma Ritter]] 
| ''[[All About Eve]]''
| {{nom}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book |first=Jack |last=Brodsky |coauthors=Nathan Weiss |title=The Cleopatra Papers |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=New York |year=1963}}
* {{cite book |first=Joseph L. |last=Mankiewicz |coauthors=Gary Carey |title=More About 'All About Eve' |location=New York |publisher=Random House |year=1972}}
* {{cite book |first=Kenneth L. |last=Geist |title=Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz |location=New York |publisher=Scribners |year=1978 |ISBN=0-68415-500-1}}
* Cheryl Bray Lower: ''Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Critical Essays and Guide to Resources''. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Co., 2001. ISBN 0-78640-987-8
* Bernard F. Dick: ''Joseph L. Mankiewicz''. New York, Twayne Publishers, 1983. ISBN 0-80579-291-0
* Oderman, Stuart, ''Talking to the Piano Player 2''. BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN #1-59393-320-7.

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*[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/great-directors/mankiewicz/ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
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|NAME = Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES = 
|SHORT DESCRIPTION = American film director and producer
|DATE OF BIRTH = 1909-02-11
|PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|DATE OF DEATH = 1993-02-05
|PLACE OF DEATH = [[Bedford (town), New York|Bedford, New York]], U.S.
}}
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