Ben Mankiewicz Articles

Eva Marie Saint, Tippi Hedren, Ernest Borgnine, Norman Jewison, Robert Osborne, and Ben Mankiewicz are some of the TCM Cruise passengers shown in the picture above. (Click on the photo to enlarge it.) The group pic was posted on TCM's Twitter page. Eva Marie Saint won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954). Her other film credits include Fred Zinnemann's [...]

Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott's At the Movies has been cancelled by Disney/ABC after 35 years. At the Movies was started as Sneak Previews in 1975 by Gene Siskel and current tweetermeister Roger Ebert, who joined hands to give thumbs up (or down) to hundreds of films. Following Siskel's death, Ebert kept on going with Richard Roeper, until illness ended Ebert's television career. Roeper then [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented "An Academy Centennial Salute to Joseph L. Mankiewicz," on Thursday, May 21, 2009, at the Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills. Pictured above at the reception for the event from left to right: Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz (nephew); Sidney Poitier, who was featured in Mankiewicz's 1950 drama No Way Out; Rosemary Mankiewicz (widow, seated); Martin [...]

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 [...]