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...Hollywood in its annual kudos-giving.* Upstart Welles, though he and his first picture had been nominated by the members for nine Academy Awards (far more than any other star or picture), was awarded half an Oscar (for the best original screen play; co-authored by Herman J. Mankiewicz...
...interested from the beginning, and Owner Hepburn could write her own ticket. She demanded two leading male stars, an all-out production, $175,000 for the screen rights, $75,000 for her services as an actress. M. G. M. ponied up gladly after its bright young Producer-Writer Joseph Mankiewicz put together an acceptable trial script. It further offered that amiably stringy young man, James Stewart, plus Cary Grant, whose $137,500 fee was paid directly to British war relief...
...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...