Herman J. Mankiewicz, affectionately known as “Mank,” was born in New York City in 1897, but he spent his formative years in Wilkes-Barre. It was here that he became the youngest prep school graduate ...

NEW YORK -- What's It About: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish "Citizen Kane." Oscar Nominations: ...

Perhaps the Golden Age of Hollywood wasn’t so golden after all. At least that seems to be the idea behind award-winning director David Fincher’s new movie Mank, a black and white drama about Citizen ...

Orson Welles’ 1941 classic, “Citizen Kane,” is regarded by many as one of the greatest films of all time. It’s also considered one of the most influential films. It’s still talked about to this day ...

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 ...

When he was toiling over the script for “The Wizard of Oz,” the story goes, the legendary screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz thought it was so important to create a sense of time and place that, in ...

Orson Welles, standing, is shown in a scene from “Citizen Kane,” which was co-written by Welles and Wilkes-Barre native Herman J. Mankiewicz. For the past year or so, I’ve been enthralled by this ...

Mank star Amanda Seyfried shares her passionate defense of director David Fincher's love of doing a lot of takes for every scene. Released in 2020, the Netflix historical drama chronicles the life of ...