Word: mankiewicz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 22 other people, once conducting a thriving emporium with the late Ring Lardner, a going concern with Morrie Ryskind, four swanky shops with Edna Ferber, two small hamburger stands with Alexander Woollcott, a pushcart with Howard Dietz, and a sidewalk trade out of a suitcase with Herman J. Mankiewicz...
Married. Elizabeth Schermerhorn Young, 24, sometime cinemactress (Queen Christina), stage star (All the Living); divorced (1937) wife of Joseph Mankiewicz, M-G-M writer-producer; to Eugene Reynal, 36, socialite president of Blue Ribbon Books Inc.; in Manhattan...
...when what is left of Joe's conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection of the lynchers' fury. Reminiscent in its power of last year's famed Informer, though far more spectacular, a good deal less sincere, Fury is a triumph for Joseph Mankiewicz, young M-G-M producer, and Fritz Lang, monocled Austrian director (M), whose first U. S. effort...
...plot which Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Henry Myers wrote for Million Dollar Legs has something to do with the Olympic games. In order to enrich the treasury of Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny, visiting the country in the capacity of brush salesman, decides to take its amazingly able-bodied citizenry to Los Angeles. His plans to win all the events in the Olympics are impeded somewhat by a spy, in league with the cabinet members. She, Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia...
Only Saps Work (Paramount). The story of this cinema is said to be taken from a play by Owen Davis. The title is one that Paramount, believing it would come in handy, bought from Courtenay Terrett some time ago. And Joseph Mankiewicz is mentioned in connection with the adaptation. But judging from the picture, which is hilariously funny, none of these authorities had much to do with it. Only Saps Work has been composed, acted and directed strictly "from the cuff" -the sort of picture in which cast, cameramen and executives on location go into a conference after each sequence...