The Brothers Mankiewicz
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Author |
: Sydney Ladensohn Stern |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 498 |
Release |
: 2019-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617032684 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1617032689 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Brothers Mankiewicz by : Sydney Ladensohn Stern
Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association 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 Joe never fully recovered. For this award-winning 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.
Author |
: Nick Davis |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400041831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 140004183X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Competing with Idiots by : Nick Davis
"A dual biography of brothers Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz, each a Hollywood legend"--
Author |
: Sydney Ladensohn Stern |
Publisher |
: Hollywood Legends |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2022-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1496840852 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781496840851 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Brothers Mankiewicz by : Sydney Ladensohn Stern
The first dual biography of two Hollywood icons
Author |
: Tom Mankiewicz |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 646 |
Release |
: 2012-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813140575 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813140579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Life as a Mankiewicz by : Tom Mankiewicz
“A treasure trove of observations and anecdotes about Hollywood from the 1960s to the 1980s and the people who made the movies back then.” —Associated Press The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in Beverly Hills and New York, spent summers on his dad’s film sets, had his first drink with Humphrey Bogart, dined with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, went to the theater with Ava Gardner, and traveled the world writing for Brando, Sinatra, and Connery. Although his family connections led him to show business, Tom “Mank” Mankiewicz forged a career of his own, becoming a renowned screenwriter, director, and producer of acclaimed films and television shows. He wrote screenplays for three James Bond films—Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)—and made his directorial debut with the hit TV series Hart to Hart (1979-1984). My Life as a Mankiewicz is a fascinating look at the life of an individual whose creativity and work ethic established him as a member of the Hollywood writing elite. My Life as a Mankiewicz illuminates his professional development as a writer and director, detailing his friendships and romantic relationships with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars as well as his struggle with alcohol and drugs. With the assistance of Robert Crane, Mankiewicz tells a story of personal achievement and offers an insider’s view of the glamorous world of Hollywood during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Author |
: Richard Meryman |
Publisher |
: William Morrow |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105038140146 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mank by : Richard Meryman
This is a detailed look at the up-and-down life of writer Herman Mankiewicz.
Author |
: Jake Rossen |
Publisher |
: Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781556527319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1556527314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Superman Vs. Hollywood by : Jake Rossen
Superman has fought for nearly seven decades to conquer radio, television, and film--but his battles behind the scenes have proved a far greater threat than any fictional foe. For the first time, one book unearths all the details of his turbulent adventures in Tinseltown. Based on extensive interviews with producers, screenwriters, cast members, and crew, Superman vs. Hollywood spills the beans on Marlon Brando's eccentricities; the challenges of making Superman appear to fly; the casting process that at various points had Superman being played by Sylvester Stallone, Neil Diamond, Nicolas Cage, Ashton Kutcher, and even Muhammad Ali; and the Superman movies, fashioned by such maverick filmmakers as Kevin Smith and Tim Burton, that never made it to the screen.
Author |
: Carla Valderrama |
Publisher |
: Running Press Adult |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2020-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780762495856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0762495855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Was Hollywood by : Carla Valderrama
In this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.
Author |
: Jacqueline R. Braitman |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2020-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496830371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496830377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis She Damn Near Ran the Studio by : Jacqueline R. Braitman
Best known as the woman who “ran MGM,” Ida R. Koverman (1876–1954) served as talent scout, mentor, executive secretary, and confidant to American movie mogul Louis B. Mayer for twenty-five years. She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman is the first full account of Koverman’s life and the true story of how she became a formidable politico and a creative powerhouse during Hollywood’s Golden Era. For nearly a century, Koverman’s legacy has largely rested on a mythical narrative while her more fascinating true-life story has remained an enduring mystery—until now. This story begins with Koverman’s early years in Ohio and the sensational national scandal that forced her escape to New York where she created a new identity and became a leader among a community of women. Her second incarnation came in California where she established herself as a hardcore political operative challenging the state’s progressive impulse. During the Roaring Twenties, she was a key architect of the Southland’s conservative female-centric partisan network that refashioned the course of state and national politics and put Herbert Hoover in the White House. As “the political boss of Los Angeles County,” she was the premiere matchmaker in the courtship between Hollywood and national partisan politics, which, as Mayer’s executive secretary, was epitomized by her third incarnation as “one of the most formidable women in Hollywood,” whose unparalleled power emanated from her unique perch inside the executive suite of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Free to adapt her managerial skills and political know-how on behalf of the studio, she quickly drew upon her artistic sensibilities as a talent scout, expanding MGM’s catalog of stars and her own influence on American popular culture. Recognized as “one of the invisible power centers in both MGM and the city of Los Angeles,” she nurtured the city’s burgeoning performing arts by fostering music and musicians and the public financing of them. As the “lioness” of MGM royalty, Ida Koverman was not just a naturalized citizen of the Hollywood kingdom; at times during her long reign, she “damn near ran the studio.”
Author |
: Brooke Hayward |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2011-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307744371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030774437X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Haywire by : Brooke Hayward
ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A celebrated Hollywood memoir: Brooke Hayward was born to a famous actress and a successful Hollywood agent—beautiful, wealthy, and living at the very center of the most privileged life America had to offer. Yet at twenty-three her family was ripped apart. From the moment of its original publication in 1977, Haywire was a national sensation, a celebrated Hollywood story of a glittering family and the stunning darkness that lurked just beneath the surface. Who could have imagined that this magical life could shatter, so conclusively, so destructively? Brooke Hayward tells the riveting story of how her family went haywire. “Haywire is a Hollywood childhood memoir, a glowing tapestry spun with equal parts of gold and pain.... An absolute beauty.” —The New York Times Book Review
Author |
: Dave Thomas |
Publisher |
: M&S |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0771085680 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780771085680 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis SCTV by : Dave Thomas
The ultimate book for the millions of fans of "SCTV", the most innovative and consistently funny late-night comedy program on television, "SCTV: Behind the Scenes" features interviews with virtually every member of The Second City troupe--including John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Dave Thomas, and Rick Moranis. 120 photos, 60 in color.