‘MANK’ IS A GRAND CONTRIBUTION TO HOLLYWOOD HISTORY
Nov 14, 2020
3 minutes
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In one history of the movies, “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz might look like a footnote. The former playwright had a hand in many famous pictures, including “The Wizard of Oz,” but most went uncredited. He was the smartest guy in the room, a drunk and a gambler who was dead at 55. And his kid brother, Joe, who directed and wrote “All About Eve,” would go on to be the better-known Mankiewicz.
But in another version of Hollywood history, the one
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