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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Mankiewicz, Joseph L. All About Eve Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in a dramatic scene from Suddenly, Last Summer, with Taylor seated in the foreground looking down and Clift watching her intently in the background. Cleopatra (1963) Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs Elizabeth Taylor, seated in costume, on the set of Cleopatra, with crew members and an actor in Roman attire in the background. Gregory Ratoff, center, with Gary Merrill, left, and Bette Davis, right, dressed formally and conversing at a cocktail party in a scene from All About Eve. Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra and Richard Burton as Mark Antony gaze at each other closely in a dramatic scene from the 1963 film Cleopatra. Lobby card from No Way Out (1950) showing Richard Widmark as Ray Biddle facing Sidney Poitier as Dr. Luther Brooks, with the movie title in the lower right corner.
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz: References & Edit History

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Kenneth L. Geist, Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1978).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Feb 07, 2026
Anniversary information added. Feb 01, 2026
Add new Web site: Washington University in St. Louis - Center for the Humanities - Joe Mankiewicz's Cleopatra, The Politics of Sleeping with Powerful Men. May 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Joseph L. Mankiewicz; Writer, Director. Sep 30, 2024
Add new Web site: Premiere Speakers Bureau - Todd Nesloney. Apr 23, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Whidbey Island Film Festival - The Maestro: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Mar 15, 2024
Add new Web site: The New York Times - The Sometimes Bumpy Ride Of Being Joseph Mankiewicz. Jan 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Harvard Film Archive - The Complete Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Nov 03, 2023
Links added. Jun 30, 2023
Add new Web site: Hollywood Walk of Fame - Biography of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Aug 31, 2021
Changed the name of a documentary about Martin Luther King, Jr., from "King: A Film Record...Montgomery to Memphis" to "King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis." Nov 19, 2019
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, literate skeptic of the cinema, dies at 83. Mar 08, 2017
Added photographs. Jun 11, 2014
Article thoroughly revised. Dec 02, 2013
Add new Web site: AllMovie.com - Biography of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Jul 30, 2013
Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Jul 30, 2013
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Jul 30, 2013
Added photograph. Apr 05, 2012
Media added. Jan 08, 2007
New article added. Jan 05, 2001
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