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Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Writer: All About Eve. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928).

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, in full Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, (born February 11, 1909, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 5, 1993, Mount Kisco, New York), American producer, director, and screenwriter known for his witty, literary, urbane dialogue and memorable characters.

Mini Bio. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount productions in Hollywood, most of them Jack ...

Joseph L. Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter, director and producer known for writing hit movies such as 'All About Eve,' 'A Letter to Three Wives' and 'Cleopatra.' Updated: Apr 1, 2021

Birthday: Feb 11, 1909. Birthplace: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Having followed brother Herman J. Mankiewicz's footsteps into motion pictures, Joseph L. Mankiewicz went from prominent writer ...

54 Metascore. A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker. Votes: 16,592 | Gross: $13.90M.

The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to offer this complete retrospective of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's twenty feature films as a rare opportunity to reconsider a simultaneously foundational and iconoclastic artist of the American cinema. – Haden Guest. The brilliant films and career of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) have long occupied a ...

Despite an oeuvre comprising only 20 feature films, Joseph L. Mankiewicz explored a number of genres and styles in his work: gothic (Dragonwyck, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Suddenly, Last Summer); film noir (Somewhere in the Night); musical comedy (Guys and Dolls); Shavian comedy (All About Eve, People Will Talk); Shakespearean tragedy (Julius ...