Word: mankiewicz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same inspiration which led director Joseph L. Mankiewicz to select Marilyn Monroe for the part must have made him also choose Bette Davis. Her interpretation of an actress who cannot quite stop acting when she is off stage exposes the sadness and emptiness of a woman who can only make believe. It is almost frightening to watch the precision with which Bette Davis disassembled the mechanism of her character and lays bare the instincts of a child...
Trial (MGM) turns out to be as tellingly effective an anti-Communist movie as Hollywood has ever made. In a few painfully real scenes, iced with satire, Director Mark (Champion) Robson and Writer Don Mankiewicz have drawn an unsettling picture of just how U.S. Communists adopt and then ambush a "good cause...
Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...
Last week, Producers Sam Spiegel (On the Waterfront) and Joseph Mankiewicz (The Barefoot Contessa) were jockeying with each other and with Italian Director Alberto Lattuada (Mill on the Po) to get a head start in shooting the life of Goya in its original Spanish setting. All three want Marlon Brando in the title role. But so does Director Stanley Kramer, whose new film, The Pride and the Passion, will be entirely photographed in Spain...
TRIAL, by Don Mankiewicz (306 pp.; Harper; $3.50), is the $10,000 winner of the Harper Prize Novel Contest, but the ribbon it really earns is a piece of black crape. The book is a flaccid throwback to the I-never-had-a-chance school of social protest popular in the '30s. Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town...