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Auteur(s) : Stern, Sydney Ladensohn
Titre(s) : The brothers Mankiewicz [Texte imprimé] : hope, heartbreak, and Hollywood classics / Sydney Ladensohn Stern
Publication : Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, impr. 2019
Description matérielle : viii, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Hollywood legends series
Lien à la collection : Hollywood legends series
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index
"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 All About Eve, which also won Best Picture. Despite
triumphs as diverse as Monkey Business and Cleopatra and Pride of the Yankees and
Guys and Dolls, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply
discontented and yearning for what they did not have--a career in New York theater.
Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitué, New York Times and New Yorker theater
critic, and playwright-collaborator with George S. Kaufman, never reconciled himself
to screenwriting. He gambled away his prodigious earnings, was fired from all the
major studios, and drank himself to death at fifty-five. While Herman drifted downward,
Joe rose to become a critical and financial success as a writer, producer, and director,
though his constant philandering with prominent stars like Joan Crawford, Judy Garland,
and Gene Tierney distressed his emotionally fragile wife who eventually committed
suicide. He wrecked his own health using uppers and downers in order to direct Cleopatra
by day and finish writing it at night, only to be very publicly fired by Darryl F.
Zanuck, an experience from which he never fully recovered. For this first dual portrait
of the Mankiewicz brothers, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters, diaries,
and other documents still in private hands to provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes
chronicle of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these complex men."--Provided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Mankiewicz, Herman Jacob (1897-1953)
Mankiewicz, Joseph Leo (1909-1993)
Producteurs de cinéma -- États-Unis
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey : 791.430 92273 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Biographie collective - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781617032677. - ISBN 1617032670. - ISBN 9781617032684 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496824691 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496824707 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496824714 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465612486
Notice n° :
FRBNF46561248
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
