Home Famous Actors Famous Musicians Famous People in the News Popular Famous People Latest Famous People Famous Quotations
Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
Hot
Hot
Famous People Most Popular Latest Famous
Actors
Musicians
in the News
Famous People
People Added
Angelina Jolie
Megan Fox
Elizabeth Taylor
Hilary Duff
Jennifer Love Hewitt
More Hot Famous Actors
Katy Perry
Lil' Wayne
Lisa Marie Presley
Chris Brown
Madonna
More Hot Famous Musicians
Katy Perry
Oprah Winfrey
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
John McCain
More Famous People in the News
Pancho Villa
Nicanor Abelardo
Frank Abagnale
Rosemary Kennedy
Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel
100 Most Popular Famous People
William Bennett
William Langland
William Pickens
William Pitt the Younger
William Allen
Last 100 Famous People Added
Famous People: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Herman J. Mankiewicz Biography

Herman J. Mankiewicz aka Herman Jacob Mankiewicz
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz
Born: 1897-11-07
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 1953-05-05
Location of Death: Hollywood
Cause of Death: Uremia

Race: White
Field: Screenwriter
Famous for: Citizen Kane

Field: Screenwriter

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 in New York City—March 5, 1953 in Hollywood, California) was a legendary Hollywood screenwriter and noted raconteur. In 1926 Mankiewicz left a job as drama editor at The New Yorker magazine to write for Hollywood. Shortly after his arrival on the West Coast, he sent a telegram to journalist-friend Ben Hecht in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around." Mankiewicz is best known for his collaboration with Orson Welles on the screenplay of Citizen Kane, for which they both won an Academy Award and famously clashed over credit. Much debate has centered around this dispute, with some critics (notably Pauline Kael) attributing the bulk of Kane's screenplay to Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz wrote and co-wrote many other screenplays (including the original version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Pride of the Yankees) and served as producer on several Marx Brothers movies. After Citizen Kane, Mankiewicz's career declined, likely a result of alcoholism. He died of uremic poisoning in Hollywood, CA on March 5, 1953, the same day as Joseph Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev.

Mankiewicz was educated at Columbia University and the University of Berlin. He was the older brother of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the son of Jewish immigrants from Germany.

Herman J. Mankiewicz News


So, who really did write 'citizen kane'?
Irish Independent
Herman J Mankiewicz was a sophisticated East Coast former newspaper columnist and wit who arrived in Hollywood in the late 1920s and subsequently put his ...

and more »


Film Journal

All's Welles that ends Welles: Richard Linklater revives the directing legend ...
Film Journal
Screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles.' And there was something in that list that seemed wrong to Orson. He actually offered Her...


Why John Citizen, USA Should Always Remain the Best Film Ever Made
The Oxford Times
The structure also had a complexity unusual for Hollywood, although Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz conducted a lifelong feud over Awesome Orson's actual ...



Citizen Kane
Schnitt Online
Nun: War Kane auch eine erdachte Figur, so hatten Welles und Drehbuchautor Herman J. Mankiewicz sie dennoch stark an Kanes realen Kollegen Randolph Hearst ...




Herman J. Mankiewicz Books
Herman J. Mankiewicz Music
Herman J. Mankiewicz Posters
Herman J. Mankiewicz Videos


It is believed that all material on this web site is in the public domain.
Basic Famous People Copyright © 2004 - 2006 By Steven J. Hayes. All rights reserved.
Basic Famous People is part of the 21st Century Basics family of sites.
Privacy Statement
Devotions Famous People History Holidays Jokes Music Quotes Recipes Weather