It also staged a sophisticated disinformation campaign, and it’s here that Mank strays the furthest from the historical record. And now David Fincher is giving it a singular, and possibly revisionist, angle in … Thanks for signing up! When was the screenplay for Citizen Kane written? David Fincher directs Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins and Charles Dance. [1][2][3][4] Frank Mankiewicz's family was from Leszno, Poland. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award. He was interred in Saint Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard cemetery in Bedford, New York. In real life, however, his conscience seems to have been untroubled and his ploy worked: He directed short films throughout the 1930s before stepping up to features in the 1940s, moving on to television in the 1950s. By December the two men settled on the idea of writing something about the life of a newspaper baron based on Hearst. In the general election, Republican incumbent Frank Merriam defeated Sinclair 49 percent to 38 percent, with Progressive candidate Raymond L. Haight, who ran as a centrist, sucking up another 13 percent and possibly spoiling Sinclair. He also produced more than twenty films including The Philadelphia Story which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. [10] The film serves as the only record of Marlon Brando in a Shakespearean role; he played Mark Antony, and received an Oscar nomination for his performance. Herman Mankiewicz, and Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in, Photo illustration by Slate. This was a huge hit but not highly regarded critically. He’s best known for “Citizen Kane”, for which he won the Oscar best screenplay with Orson Welles in 1942. Finally, there are the extant drafts of the screenplay, which Robert L. Carringer analyzed in a celebrated 1978 article, “The Scripts of Citizen Kane.” Carringer’s conclusion was that Mankiewicz was the primary author of the Victorville drafts, which stuck much more closely to the facts of Hearst’s life than the final film, but also that Welles’ revisions and contributions were “not only substantial but definitive.” He also dug up a telegram Houseman sent Mankiewicz in June 1940 that makes it quite obvious that Welles was heavily involved in the development of the shooting script (and, furthermore, that Houseman was writing material as well, though it’s anybody’s guess if it was used). In 1928 Mankiewicz got a contract to work as a writer at Paramount, through his brother Herman. The details of life at Hearst Castle are also correct and so are the broad outlines of Mankieicz’s time there: His drinking slowly made him persona non grata until he was no longer welcome. He’s best known for “Citizen Kane”, for which he won the Oscar best screenplay with Orson Welles in 1942. I used what I wanted of Mank’s and, rightly or wrongly, kept what I liked of my own. Hollywood didn’t just support Merriam financially. He was not related to the similar-sounding British screenwriter, Wolf Mankowitz. Through the years, though, it won the top spot in polls of best films many times. Photos by International News/, Joseph Mankiewicz, and Tom Pelphrey as Joseph Mankiewicz in, Photo illustration by Slate. He wrote and directed The Honey Pot (1967) for Charles K. Feldman and produced and directed There Was a Crooked Man... (1970), as well as doing some uncredited work on the documentary King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970). At MGM he wrote Forsaking All Others (1934) with Gable, Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery and did uncredited work on After Office Hours (1935) with Gable and Constance Bennett, Reckless (1935) with Jean Harlow and William Powell, Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) and I Live My Life (1935) with Crawford. The greatest was Citizen Kane. Herman J. Mankiewicz was promoted to producer with Three Godfathers (1936). A friend of Mankiewicz’s, test shot director Shelly Metcalf (Jamie McShane), leaps at the chance to step up to real directing and shoots a series of staged “man-in-the-street” interviews in which well-dressed white people explain why they are voting for Merriam, while foreigners, workmen, and Tom Joad types explain that they’re voting for Sinclair. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. It’s not necessarily a great question to hang a movie on—Herman J. Mankiewicz’s life was defined by hostility laundered through wit—but Mank finds an answer in the 1934 California gubernatorial race, and it’s here that the film’s relationship with history becomes more dubious (and more interesting). The general critical consensus these days is that although there’s no evidence to substantiate Welles’ claim of having written his own first draft independently, his contributions transformed Mankiewicz’s script “from a solid basis for a story into an authentic plan for a masterpiece,” as Carringer put it. Watch Now on Netflix. Directed by David Fincher. Here’s the first film in what became a series of three. She would only approve two men, George Stevens or Mankiewicz. Orson Welles with Mankiewicz i n an undated photo. In “Raising Kane,” Kael reprinted a rumor she’d heard from filmmaker Nunnally Johnson that Welles had offered Mankiewicz $10,000 to take his name off the film, which Welles has always denied. Mank, David Fincher’s movie about Oscar-winning Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his tumultuous development of the Orson Welles classic, will hit Netflix on December 4 … (The scene in Mank in which Irving Thalberg attempts to talk Mankiewicz into a token donation seems to be modeled after Wexley’s argument with Harry Cohn.). Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Franz Mankiewicz (died 1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish emigrants from Germany. It’s the first film directed by Welles and it was nominated for several Oscars, but only won as best screenplay. Mine were Herman Mankiewicz (1897–1953), best known for co-writing Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–93), who wrote and directed, among others, All About Eve (1950) and Cleopatra (1963). There are countless different versions of the story of its creation, but they all agree on the basic setup. He followed it with Somewhere in the Night (1946) a film noir which he co wrote. Joseph earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture. Stanley". Herman also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941). In short, wherever Fincher could choose between different accounts, he chose the one that gave the most credit to Mankiewicz and the least credit to Welles. Their grandfather, who died before either was born, was screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, whose battles with Orson Welles over the credit for Citizen Kane will be chronicled in the upcoming Netflix movie Mank. Oldman, 62, portrays Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote “Citizen Kane… [5][6] Herman also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941). And although Mankiewicz would bet on anything, none of his biographers mention a bet with Mayer or Thalberg over the election results. Mank takes its cues from Citizen Kane wherever it can, so naturally it has a Rosebud-style mystery at its center: Why did Herman J. Mankiewicz write a script containing cruel caricatures of William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies, both of whom he had known socially? Houseman edited Mankiewicz’s commissions for the Mercury Theater’s radio programming, and in “Mank,” Houseman shepherds Mankiewicz’s writing of “Citizen Kane” … There’s a scene, for instance, showing Herman refusing to join the Screen Writers Guild in a private conversation with Joseph, but much of the dialogue actually comes from a full-page ad Herman took out in Variety taunting the would-be unionists, “You have nothing to lose but your brains.” But if Mankiewicz was no unionist, he wasn’t a fascist, either. Mankiewicz garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Direction in 1972 for Sleuth, his final directing effort, starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Don’t let this get around. Herman also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941). In the film, Mankiewicz interrupts Davies’ exit from MGM in a last-ditch effort to stop Thalberg’s phony newsreels from being released. You can cancel anytime. Johanna "Josie" (Mankiewicz) Davis was born on October 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. Houseman was there to serve as an editor, as someone to bounce ideas off, and above all to keep Herman sober and working, but his version attempts to carve out his own contributions primarily through the use of the first-person plural: We started with the image of a man—a giant, a tycoon, a glamour figure, a controller of public opinion, a legend in his own lifetime … As we talked we asked each other how this man had got to be the way he was, made the choices he did. Although the script seems to have made its way to Hearst and his lawyers through Davies’ nephew Charles Lederer, in her memoir, The Times We Had: Life With William Randolph Hearst, she claims she never even watched the finished film. After a month in the movie business, Mankiewicz signed a year's contract at $400 a week plus bonuses, and by the end of 1927, he was head of Paramount's scenario department. Mank, the new movie from director David Fincher about Citizen Kane ’s co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, wades waist-deep into two contentious … He wrote Manhattan Melodrama (1934) which was a huge hit. Later, Mankiewicz, already beating himself up for inspiring Thalberg, discovers that Hearst helped fund the newsreels. Herman J. Join Slate Plus to continue reading, and you’ll get unlimited access to all our work—and support Slate’s independent journalism. Almost without preamble, into the campaign, first Leland (Joseph Cotten) making a speech for his boss, then the man himself (writer, director, producer and star Orson Welles) taking the stage, Gettys (Ray Collins) and Mrs. Kane (Ruth Warrick) observing, in Citizen Kane 1941. In the film, he is portrayed by Oscar-winner Gary Oldman. Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey Busi The Mank true story confirms that the Citizen Kane screenplay was co-written by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles over a span of several months in the spring and summer of 1940. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. The result was the original script for Citizen Kane, ... His younger brother Joe (better known today as the writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz), then a lowly contract writer for MGM, actually penned some of the studios’ radio ads for Merriam, while the real director of the fake newsreels never showed any remorse for the deception. Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Their great uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was the legendary writer-director of classic films including All About Eve. At the end, naturally, I was the one who was making the picture, after all—who had to make the decisions. Technically, “Mank” is the story of how the script for what’s often considered the greatest movie ever made, “Citizen Kane,” may have been written. Fincher not only stages that incident; he has Welles get so angry about Mankiewicz’s request for credit that he throws some furniture around, which inspires Mankiewicz to write the scene in Citizen Kane where Kane trashes Susan Alexander’s room. And then there’s the account John Houseman gives in his 1972 memoir, Run-Through. Herman was one of the writers on The Dummy (1929), on which Mankiewicz wrote titles. This was followed by This Reckless Age (1932), Sky Bride (1932) with Arlen and Oakie, Million Dollar Legs (1932) with Oakie and W.C. Fields, Night After Night (1932) (uncredited), and If I Had a Million (1932). When she didn’t get the part, Hearst moved Cosmopolitan, and Marion Davies, and Marion Davies’ 11-room bungalow on the studio lot, from MGM to Warner Bros. According to Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s biography The Brothers Mankiewicz, he quietly sponsored refugees, helped them find work, and gave generously to relief organizations throughout the 1930s. David Fincher’s Mank (2020), about Herman ‘Mank’ Mankiewicz’s writing contribution to Citizen Kane, may not compete with Allen’s film in the number of Jewish actors (Mank himself is played by non-Jewish Gary Oldman), but in Jewish characters, and historical ones to boot, in a non-explicitly Jewish film, it has raised a high bar. In real life, John Houseman shared a two-bedroom suite at the ranch with Mankiewicz, the better to discuss the script, but Fincher ships him off, not just to a different room, but to a different hotel, to keep him out of the way during the writing. On most of his films as producer he would work uncredited on the script. We encountered an issue signing you up. Mank also gets Mankiewicz’s friendship with Marion Davies more or less right: They bonded over their shared alcoholism, although according to Sara Mankiewicz, Herman mostly felt sorry for her. (1897–1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and both the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for All About Eve (1950), the latter of which was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six. He was the younger brother of Herman J. Mankiewicz. Those events are the political backdrop Mank is playing with, and they’re all true, but Herman J. Mankiewicz’s relationship to those events seems to be Jack Fincher’s invention. Watch Now on Netflix. Thalberg’s fake newsreels were directed by Felix Feist Jr., who, like Metcalf, was a test shot director looking to move up at MGM. Instead, Fincher gives us a gradually growing stack of notebooks next to Mankiewicz’s bed as he creates the script out of thin air. Film buffs salivating over the prospect of David Fincher taking on the making of “Citizen Kane” may be left a tad dry-mouthed by “Mank,” his Netflix bio-pic of “Kane” co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz.. Filmed in digital video black and white, it’s a mostly sizzle-free blend of fact and fiction based on Fincher’s late father Jack Fincher’s screenplay. The delayed-adulation Citizen Kane received after Mankiewicz’s death is ironic considering he never thought of himself as a Hollywood screenwriter. Watch all you want. Joseph L. Mankiewicz was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Franz Mankiewicz (died 1941) and Johanna Blumenau, Jewish emigrants from Germany. So, after mutual agreements on the story line and character, Mank went off with Houseman and did his version, while I stayed in Hollywood and wrote mine. By RAY KELLY. Over six years he made 11 films for Fox. There’s no question he later decided he wanted to be credited, argued with Welles about it, and eventually got his screen credit. He also did some uncredited writing on The Great Waltz (1938), and the script which became The Pirate (1948). Sinclair, who was not in the habit of thinking small, laid out his plans for the state in a short book, modestly titled I, Governor of California, and How I Ended Poverty: A True Story of the Future. (According to Pauline Kael, Houseman brought some sort of drug intended to combat Mankiewicz’s alcoholism, but it didn’t work. FILE - Gary Oldman arrives at the 90th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 5, 2018. Late in the film, a character reveals that Mankiewicz spent the 1930s helping refugees from fascism. Brando starred along with Frank Sinatra and Jean Simmons. He graduated from Columbia in 1928.[9]. (1958) though Mankiewicz had relatively little to do with it. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture’s only Academy Award.Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing All About Eve, which also won Best Picture. It’s also a load of hooey. [1], Mankiewicz followed his brother to Columbia University, where he majored in English and wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator and took part in the Varsity Show. Mankiewicz worked for seventeen years as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures and as a producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer before getting a chance to direct at Twentieth Century Fox. He was borrowed by RKO for Diplomaniacs (1933) and Emergency Call (1933). The film consumed two years of Mankiewicz's life and ended up both derailing his career and causing severe financial losses for the studio, Twentieth Century-Fox, which were not fully recovered until Rodgers and Hammerstein's popular and acclaimed The Sound of Music was released two years later. It’s a helluva picture, looking into his process of writing “Citizen Kane,” regarded by many (thought not me) as the greatest film ever made. Sinclair’s plan was enough to terrify the state’s business leaders when he won the Democratic primary, and they mobilized to crush him. Despite triumphs as diverse as Monkey … Like Kane, Mank starts with a broken man in bed and proceeds to delve into his past. He’s best known for “Citizen Kane”, for which he won the Oscar best screenplay with Orson Welles in 1942. Mankiewicz produced and directed Carol for Another Christmas (1964) for television. For decades a majority of film historians and critics have placed Orson Welles’ seminal 1941 classic Citizen Kane at, or near, the top of just about every list of the greatest films ever made… He had a sister, Erna Mankiewicz (1901–1979), and a brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), who became a screenwriter. Photos by history.sandiego.edu/, Marion Davies, and Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies in, Photo illustration by Slate. Videos MANK. When it comes to the actual writing, though, the different accounts of what happened become as prismatic as the life of Charles Foster Kane. He had a sister, Erna Mankiewicz (1901–1979), and a brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897–1953), who became a screenwriter. Citizen Kane producer John Houseman is shown as a bumbling, panicky work partner to Herman Mankiewicz but he’s also highly tolerant of Mankiewicz’s creative choices. In the process we discovered what persons were associated with him, we learned what brought them together and what he did with them and to them over the years. Mank only has a couple of flashbacks that show Herman Mankiewicz at the studios, which means there’s a lot of time compression at play—he didn’t coin all of his wittiest retorts on a single day at Paramount in 1930—but although you could argue with some of the film’s characterizations of studio executives as uniformly dimwitted (and Slate already has), the people and places in these scenes of the movie are more or less the right people in the right places. During Mankiewicz’s long and painful convalescence, Orson Welles hired him to write a few scripts for the Mercury Theatre radio show, and the two men began a fruitful collaboration. A cautionary tale about America's blind support for "anti-Communists" was turned into, according to Greene, a "propaganda film for America". Zanuck also took that credit on Mankiewicz's next film, All About Eve (1950), which quickly became regarded as a classic. His first film for the studio was The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), which he wrote with Nunnally Johnson and produced. David Fincher directs Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins and Charles Dance. The result was the original script for Citizen Kane, ... His younger brother Joe (better known today as the writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz), then a lowly contract writer for MGM, actually penned some of the studios’ radio ads for Merriam, while the real director of the fake newsreels never showed any remorse for the deception. His ties to the New York literary scene were valuable during the transition to sound: Studios wanted playwrights who had experience writing dialogue, so Mankiewicz helped recruit East Coast journalists as part of what he called “the Herman J. Mankiewicz Fresh Air Fund for Writers.” According to Ben Hecht’s 1954 memoir, A Child of the Century, Mankiewicz sent him a telegram reading: Will you accept three hundred dollars to work for Paramount Pictures. 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