Joseph L. Mankiewicz Centennial
Four-time Academy Award winner screenwriter-director-producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz will be saluted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a special 50th anniversary screening of a recently restored print of Suddenly, Last Summer, starring Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor (above, and right, with Mankiewicz), and Montgomery Clift. The screening will take place on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will also celebrate the recent gift of the Joseph L. Mankiewicz Papers to the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. Turner Classic Movies host and The Young Turks co-creator Ben Mankiewicz, Joseph L.’s great nephew and grandson of Citizen Kane co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, will host [...]
by Andre Soares | May 1, 2009
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Best Films – 1950
Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe in La Ronde
FILM
All About Eve
d, scr: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Annie Get Your Gun
d: George Sidney; scr: Sidney Sheldon
Caged
d: John Cromwell; scr: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld
Harvey
d: Henry Koster; scr: Mary C. Chase, Oscar Brodney
King Solomon’s Mines
d: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton; scr: Helen Deutsch
Madeleine
d: David Lean; scr: Stanley Haynes, Nicholas Phipps
The Magnificent Yankee
d: John Sturges; scr: Emmet Lavery
Panic in the Streets
d: Elia Kazan; scr: Richard Murphy, Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt
La Ronde / Roundabout
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls
So Long at the Fair
d: Antony Darnborough, [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: All About Eve, Best Films, Born Yesterday, Cheaper by the Dozen, Classic Movies, Erich von Stroheim Machiko Kyo, Gloria Swanson, La Ronde, Max Ophüls, Orpheus, Oscar Straus, Sunset Blvd., William Holden
