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The brothers Mankiewicz : hope, heartbreak, and Hollywood classics / Sydney Ladensohn Stern.

"Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Stern, Sydney Ladensohn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:Hollywood legends series.
Subjects:
Mankiewicz, Herman J. > (Herman Jacob), > 1897-1953.
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion picture producers and directors > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The end: Joe, 1993
  • The beginning: Herman, 1926
  • The real beginning: Pop, 1891
  • Herman
  • Herman's life begins
  • Glorious adventures
  • Central Park West Voltaire
  • The Mankiewicz brothers of Hollywood
  • In pursuit of a lump sum
  • Gold safe, however
  • Mad dogs
  • The Tiffany of studios
  • Joe's black years
  • Citizen Kane
  • Apprentice director
  • Promised land
  • All about Eve
  • Breaking away
  • Exit Herman
  • Joe
  • Hollywood Cinderella: a cautionary fairy tale
  • New York crooks and showgirls: an American fairy tale
  • Joe rewrites Graham Greene
  • Exit Rosa
  • Southern gothic horror story
  • The toughest three pictures I ever made
  • The honey pot(boiler)
  • Ironic western
  • Of page and screen
  • Honors but no dough
  • Epilogue
  • What they wrought
  • Appendix: family tree
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Select bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Photo credits
  • Index.

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