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Herman J. Mankiewicz

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Roteiro
Nascimento
7 de novembro de 1897 · New York City, New York, USA
Falecimento
5 de março de 1953

Biografia

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953; New York City) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott said that Herman Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York". Both Mankiewicz and Welles received Academy Awards for their screenplay. Mankiewicz's younger brother was Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993), an Oscar-winning Hollywood director, screenwriter, and producer. His nephew Tom Mankiewicz (1942 – 2010) was also a screenwriter and director. He was often asked to fix the screenplays of other writers, with much of his work uncredited. Occasional flashes of what came to be called the "Mankiewicz humor" and satire distinguished his films, and became valued in the films of the 1930s. The style of writing included a slick, satirical, and witty humor, which depended almost totally on dialogue to carry the film. It was a style that would become associated with the "typical American film" of that period. Among the screenplays he wrote or worked on, besides "Citizen Kane", were "The Wizard of Oz", "Man of the World", "Dinner at Eight", "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.". Mankiewicz was an alcoholic. Ten years before his death, he wrote: “I seem to become more and more of a rat in a trap of my own construction, a trap that I regularly repair whenever there seems to be danger of some opening that will enable me to escape. I haven’t decided yet about making it bomb proof. It would seem to involve a lot of unnecessary labor and expense". A future Hollywood biographer went so far as to suggest that Mankiewicz’s behavior “made him seem erratic even by the standards of Hollywood drunks.” Herman Mankiewicz died March 5, 1953, of uremic poisoning, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles.

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Pôster de Cidadão Kane
Cidadão Kane
Filme · 1941 · ★ 8,0
Pôster de O Diabo a Quatro
O Diabo a Quatro
Filme · 1933 · ★ 7,3
Pôster de Os Gênios da Pelota
Os Gênios da Pelota
Filme · 1932 · ★ 6,9
Pôster de Os Quatro Batutas
Os Quatro Batutas
Filme · 1931 · ★ 6,9
Pôster de The Pride of the Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees
Filme · 1942 · ★ 7,3
Pôster de Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight
Filme · 1933 · ★ 6,8
Pôster de A Última Ordem
A Última Ordem
Filme · 1928 · ★ 7,4
Pôster de São Francisco, a Cidade do Pecado
São Francisco, a Cidade do Pecado
Filme · 1936 · ★ 6,6
Pôster de A Primeira Página
A Primeira Página
Filme · 1931 · ★ 6,4
Pôster de It's a Wonderful World
It's a Wonderful World
Filme · 1939 · ★ 6,5
Pôster de A Vida Íntima de uma Mulher
A Vida Íntima de uma Mulher
Filme · 1949 · ★ 5,6
Pôster de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, parte II
Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, parte II
Filme · 1976 · ★ 7,0

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