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Article: Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
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- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
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MANKIEWICZ, Joseph L.
Nationality:
American.
Born:
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 11 February 1909.
Education:
Stuyvesant High School, New York; Columbia University, B.A., 1928.
Family:
Married 1) Elizabeth Young, 1934 (divorced 1937), one son; 2) Rosa Stradner, 1939 (died 1958), two sons; 3) Rosemary Matthews, 1962, one daughter.
Career:
Reporter for
Chicago Tribune
, and stringer for
Variety
in Berlin, 1928; with help of brother Herman, became junior writer at Paramount, 1929; writer for MGM, 1933, then producer, from 1935; contract taken over by Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943; directed
La Boh
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me
for Metropolitan Opera, New York, 1952; formed ...
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