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Competing with idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait
- Title
- Competing with idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait / Nick Davis.
- Author
- Davis, Nick, 1965-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xv, 362 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "A dual biography of brothers Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz, each a Hollywood legend"--
- Herman Mankiewicz went to Hollywood in 1926, was almost immediately successful, and became one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood. His brother Joe, eleven years younger, focused, organized, a disciplined writer, produced, wrote and directed Oscar winning films before seeing his career upended by the spectacular fiasco of Cleopatra. Davis-- grandson of Herman, great-nephew of Joe, shows us their dreams and desires, fears and feuds, struggles to free themselves from their dark past; and the driving forces that kept them bound to a system they loved and hated. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Mankiewicz, Joseph L
- Mankiewicz, Herman J. 1897-1953
- 1900-1999
- Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography
- Screenwriters > United States > Biography
- Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion pictures
- Screenwriters
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- Rosebud -- Gertrude Slescynski -- The New Yorker -- Yes, the New Yorker -- Hollywood -- Trapped -- Monkeybitch -- American -- Fratricide -- A new heart -- Ships in the night -- Eve -- No way out -- Hooray for the Bulldog -- Man-about-town -- A river in Egypt -- Legacy.
- Call Number
- MWES (Mankiewicz, J.) 21-3388
- ISBN
- 9781400041831
- 140004183X
- LCCN
- 2020052645
- OCLC
- 1224583582
- Author
- Davis, Nick, 1965- author.
- Title
- Competing with idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait / Nick Davis.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- Online version: Davis, Nick, Competing with idiots. First edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021 9780593319703 (DLC) 2020052646
- Research Call Number
- MWES (Mankiewicz, J.) 21-3388