Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1909. Mankiewicz attended Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University. After a brief stint as a foreign correspondent for The Chicago Tribune in Berlin, Germany, he entered the motion picture industry, working for 17 years as a screenwriter for Paramount and as a producer for MGM, before becoming a director for Twentieth Century-Fox. Mankiewicz directed 11 films for Fox, including the Academy Award-winning All About Eve and A Letter to Three Wives. He produced more than 20 films, including The Philadelphia Story, and wrote 48 screenplays. Mankiewicz left Fox in 1951 and continued to make films as a director for hire and for his own production company. Mankiewicz died in 1993 at age 83.