Joseph L. Mankiewicz - biography

“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.”

Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed the following films:
Backfire (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
The Late George Apley (1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Escape (1948)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
House of Strangers (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
People Will Talk (1951)
5 Fingers (1952)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
The Quiet American (1958)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Cleopatra (1963)
The Honey Pot (1967)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
Sleuth (1972)


Joseph L. Mankiewicz contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Close Harmony (1929)
The Dummy (1929)
The Man I Love (1929)
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)
The Virginian (1929)
Thunderbolt (1929)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Finn and Hattie (1931)
Newly Rich (1931)
Skippy (1931)
Sooky (1931)
If I Had a Million (1932)
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Too Much Harmony (1933)
Emergency Call (1933)
Forsaking All Others (1934)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
I Live My Life (1935)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)


Joseph L. Mankiewicz has appeared in the following films:
Woman Trap (1929)