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...never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz last week, contemplating his 41 years in Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently...
Sentimentality in Reverse. "The bitch-goddess, success" was a phrase coined by William James. What Mary Orr, who penned the original story, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who scripted the film, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wrote the book for Applause, have done is to reverse James and produce a clever little parable on the success goddess-bitchiness. It may be clever, but it is far from valid. Cynicism is sentimentality in reverse and equally untrue. Of all places, the theater, with its intense critical scrutiny, verifies the copybook maxim that success must be earned and that only merit will...
...conception of Boys, Crowley said, "I loved Virginia Woolf and it influenced me a lot-but the real inspiration was the Salinger story. 'Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.' And movies like All About Eve [Mankiewicz's melodrama about Hollywood stardom] and Hitchcock's Rope, which gave me the idea of using confined quarters as a dramatic device...
...some past experience. The shootout. COCKS: How about asking each of you whether you are conscious of having an individual image on the screen, something that you represent to people? HENRY: Well, I'm aware of it only because I hear people talk about me. Joe Mankiewicz recently cast me in a picture because, he said, "I want that middle-class American morality that is Henry Fonda...
Some fans of the game carry it one step further. Author Don Mankiewicz, for example, played it the easy way for years with I DECIDE for an office number, UP STICK for home. But he changed offices last fall, and today acquaintances who want to get in touch with him are told to dial the answer to the question "What do you use to blast your way through the ice, Amundsen?" Those still interested in making the call can reach him at TNT BYRD...