Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1909 and spent the majority of his childhood in New York City. After graduating from Columbia University, he moved to Berlin to be a correspondent for ...

The TCM podcast The Plot Thickens returns in July with host Ben Mankiewicz taking a deep dive into the making of Cleopatra, the troubled 1963 drama that starred Elizabeth Taylor and was directed and ...

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of the Oscar-winning All About Eve ...

It was an ordinary spring day in 1962 Italy… ordinary outside of a warm greeting between the very married superstar Elizabeth Taylor and the very married actor Richard Burton that a photographer ...

Restored movies by Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Manoel de Oliveira, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Tsai Ming-Liang are set to screen as part of the Venice Film Festival’s 18-title ...

Reading this splendid compilation of interviews with the director-producer Joseph Mankiewicz, one theme continually recurs. Mankiewicz is forever convinced that “my kind of filmmaking”—literate, witty ...