The Brothers Mankiewicz av Sydney Ladensohn Stern

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<b>Winner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award</b><b></b><br><b>Longlisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the </b><b>Kraszna-Krausz Foundation</b><br><b>Named a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association</b><p/>Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for <i>Citizen Kane</i> and shared the picture''s only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing <i>All About Eve</i>, which also won Best Picture. <p/> Despite triumphs as diverse as <i>Monkey Business </i>and <i>Cleopatra</i>, and <i>Pride of the Yankees</i> and <i>Guys and Dolls</i>, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have--a career in New York theater. Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitu¿<i>New York Times </i>and <i>New Yorker</i> theater cr