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Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman J. Mankiewicz
Mankiewicz in the 1940s
Born
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz

(1897-11-07)November 7, 1897
New York City, U.S.
DiedMarch 5, 1953(1953-03-05) (aged 55)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materColumbia University (BA)
OccupationScreenwriter
Years active1926–1952
Spouse
Sara Aaronson
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(m. 1920)​
Children3, including Don Mankiewicz and Frank Mankiewicz
FamilyJoseph L. Mankiewicz (brother)
See Mankiewicz family

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (/ˈmæŋkəwɪts/ MANG-kə-wits; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film. Mankiewicz was previously a Berlin correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily,[1] assistant theater editor at The New York Times,[1] and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker.[1][2][3][4] Alexander Woollcott said that Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York".[5][6]

Mankiewicz was often asked to fix other writers' screenplays, with much of his work uncredited. His writing style became valued in the films of the 1930s—a style that included a slick, satirical, and witty humor, in which dialogue almost totally carried the film, and which eventually become associated with the "typical American film" of that period.[7]: 219  In addition to Citizen Kane, he wrote or worked on films including The Wizard of Oz, Man of the World, Dinner at Eight, The Pride of the Yankees and The Pride of St. Louis.

Film critic Pauline Kael credits Mankiewicz with having written, alone or with others, "about forty of the films I remember best from the twenties and thirties...He was a key linking figure in just the kind of movies my friends and I loved best."[8]: 247  Nearly seventy years after his death, Mankiewicz was portrayed by actor Gary Oldman in the 2020 Oscar-winning film Mank.

  1. ^ a b c Stern, Sydney Ladensohn (2019). The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781617032677.
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  3. ^ Young, Toby (2008). How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81613-0. Of all Ben Hecht's colleagues, perhaps the most heroic was Herman J. Mankiewicz, the ex-New York Times journalist who wrote Citizen Kane. ...[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Robertson, Nan (2009). "Herman J. Mankiewicz". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 28, 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2009. While in Germany he began working as a Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He later returned to the U.S. where he gained notoriety among New York's cultural elite as the drama editor of The New York Times and The New Yorker.
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  6. ^ "Citizen Kane (1941)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
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