Word: mankiewicz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunday with Garroway (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Two hours of top entertainment, with Gina Lollobrigida, Director Joe Mankiewicz, Pianist Alec Templeton...
...unkind, and the film happily needs credit no-one with "additional dialogue." There is no pretentious introduction to ease the audience into Shakespeare, and with Brando excellent as Antony, there is no desperate bid for box-office appeal in the casting. Essentially, what producer John Houseman and director Joseph Mankiewicz have done is to film the play, with a superlative cast to project its poetry. The result is a distinguished American trespass on the Olivier preserve of the Shakespeare film...
Produced by John Houseman (who in 1937 put on a striking, modern-dress stage version of Julius Caesar with Orson Welles) and directed by Joseph (All About Eve) Mankiewicz, this is a polished and lavish production. But, dedicated to the theory that the play's the thing, it does not stress pageantry for its own sake. Faithful in letter and spirit to the play, the movie has no "additional dialogue," and the cuts are mainly in the last third of the play, traditionally considered expendable on the stage...
Died. Herman J. Mankiewicz, 55, cinema writer-producer (Oscar winner, with Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane), elder brother of Writer-Director Joseph L. (All About Eve) Mankiewicz; of uremic poisoning; in Hollywood...
...HOLLY MANKIEWICZ Berkeley, Calif...