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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: February 11, 1909 in Wilkes-Barre, PA Death: February 5, 1993 in Bedford, NY Biography:Like his older brother "Herman J. Mankiewicz", American producer/ director/ writer "Joseph Mankiewicz" displayed a streak of brilliance from an early age. Before he was 20, the younger Mankiewicz was the assistant Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and an English translator for the subtitles of German-made films. Brother "Herman", already ensconced in Hollywood as a high-priced screenwriter, invited Joseph to try his luck in Tinseltown in 1929.
Mankiewicz's first assignment at Paramount was composing subtitles for the silent versions of the studio's sound pictures. He also concocted special comedy material for "Jack Oakie" movies, which led to several years of employment on such nonsensical film farces as Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey's "Diplomaniacs" (1933) and "W.C. Fields"' "Million Dollar Legs" in 1932. (Fields paid Joseph 50 dollars for the lifetime rights to the phrase "My little... Full Biography
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