Mankiewicz

[ mang-kuh-wits ]

noun

1. Joseph L(eo), 1909–1993, U.S. motion-picture director, producer, and writer.

Example Sentences

In Mank’s 1930s timeline, Mankiewicz is just catching on to the power that images, whether or not they’re “real,” exercise over the ordinary people who watch them.

From Vox

Over the course of Mank, you can see Mankiewicz’s sympathies growing.

From Vox

When Mankiewicz’s work evaporates too, he has no reason to make nice anymore.

From Vox

Mankiewicz seems to take Welles’s comment as a signal that it’s the right time to go after Hearst.

From Vox

Mank then adds another layer to Mankiewicz’s frustration with Hearst, and one with perhaps a little more heart.

From Vox

Shooting The Comancheros in 1961, Wayne spotted a JFK button on the lapel of the future screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz.

From The Daily Beast

“I am utterly miserable,” Fitzgerald whimpered in a letter to Mankiewicz.

From The Daily Beast

And now I see the familiar visage of Ben Mankiewicz, so this just regular old TCM.

From The Daily Beast

Later another force of nature blew in, courtesy of Joseph L. Mankiewicz: the faceless Cleopatra became Elizabeth Taylor.

From The Daily Beast

"I have never, ever, nor do I expect ever, to see a face more in grief," Mankiewicz later recalled.

From The Daily Beast