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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1909-1993



Biography

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Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Died in Bedford, New York, USA

Joseph L. Mankiewicz photo

Joseph L. Mankiewicz photo




Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
“I was walking into the commissary on the day Kate [Hepburn] met Spencer [Tracy] for the first time in the corridor.  Kate said: ‘I’m afraid I’m a little tall for you, Mr Tracy.’ I turned to her and said: ‘Don’t worry, Kate, he’ll soon cut you down to size.’”

“The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.”

“There’s nothing as real as money.”

“All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.”

“I’m a schoolteacher.  That’s even worse than being an intellectual.  Schoolteachers are not only comic, they’re often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.”

“I’ve been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.”

“Show a Welshman 1001 exits, one of which is marked ‘Self-Destruction’ and he’ll go right through that one.”




 
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