Herman J. Mankiewicz
American screenwriter (1897-1953) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 55
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film.
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Groucho Marx Herman produced Duck Soup and Monkey Business
William Powell Herman wrote The Last Command (1928)
Harpo Marx Herman produced Duck Soup and Monkey Business
Chico Marx Herman produced Duck Soup and Monkey Business- Bernard H. Hyman Produced Stamboul Quest and After Office Hours
Jack Oakie Herman produced Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Josef von Sternberg Directed The Last Command and Thunderbolt
Frank Morgan Herman wrote Laughter and Escapade
Tod Browning Directed The Road to Mandalay and Fast Workers
Adolph Zukor Produced The Last Command and The Vagabond King
Robert Z. Leonard Directed After Office Hours (1935)
Thelma Todd Herman produced Monkey Business (1931)
Edgar Kennedy Herman produced Duck Soup (1933)
George Fitzmaurice Directed Suzy and Live, Love and Learn
Edmund Breese Herman produced Duck Soup (1933)
Harry Rapf Produced The Murder Man and Live, Love and Learn
E. H. Calvert Herman wrote The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Lyda Roberti Herman produced Million Dollar Legs (1932)
Cyril Ring Herman produced Monkey Business (1931)
Clark Gable Herman wrote San Francisco and Comrade X
Evelyn Brent Herman wrote The Last Command and The Drag Net
Ted Healy Also in Meet the Baron and Operator 13
Fuzzy Knight Also in Operator 13 and The Murder Man
Katharine Alexander Also in Operator 13 and After Office Hours
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Mankiewicz was previously a Berlin correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily, assistant theater editor at The New York Times, and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott said that Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York".
