Nearly three decades after his death, Wilkes-Barre native Joseph Mankiewicz is still in the pantheon of Hollywood’s most acclaimed filmmakers. The only filmmaker in history to collect back to back ...

Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz called Wilkes-Barre home for part of their youth before becoming Hollywood legends. The Mankiewiczes only spent a few years in the city while their father, Franz, worked ...

Reading this splendid compilation of interviews with the director-producer Joseph Mankiewicz, one theme continually recurs. Mankiewicz is forever convinced that “my kind of filmmaking”—literate, witty ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Ever since capturing 20th Century-Fox from the cold grip of Wall Street last summer, President Darryl F. Zanuck had been holed up in his Manhattan bunker, coldly sniping at Cleopatra. Then, armed with ...