{"product_id":"the-brothers-mankiewicz-hope-heartbreak-and-hollywood-classics-paperback","title":"The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSydney Ladensohn Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2020 Peter C. Rollins Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2020 Moving Image Book Award by the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKraszna-Krausz Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a 2019 Richard Wall Memorial Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for \u003ci\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/i\u003e and shared the picture's only Academy Award. Joe earned the second pair of his four Oscars for writing and directing \u003ci\u003eAll About Eve\u003c\/i\u003e, which also won Best Picture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Despite triumphs as diverse as \u003ci\u003eMonkey Business \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePride of the Yankees\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuys and Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e, the witty, intellectual brothers spent their Hollywood years deeply discontented and yearning for what they did not have--a career in New York theater. Herman, formerly an Algonquin Round Table habitué, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e theater critic, and playwright-collaborator with George S. Kaufman, never reconciled himself to screenwriting. He gambled away his prodigious earnings, was fired from all the major studios, and drank himself to death at fifty-five. While Herman drifted downward, Joe rose to become a critical and financial success as a writer, producer, and director, though his constant philandering with prominent stars like Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Gene Tierney distressed his emotionally fragile wife who eventually committed suicide. He wrecked his own health using uppers and downers in order to direct \u003ci\u003eCleopatra \u003c\/i\u003eby day and finish writing it at night, only to be very publicly fired by Darryl F. Zanuck, an experience from which Joe never fully recovered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For this award-winning dual portrait of the Mankiewicz brothers, Sydney Ladensohn Stern draws on interviews, letters, diaries, and other documents still in private hands to provide a uniquely intimate behind-the-scenes chronicle of the lives, loves, work, and relationship between these complex men.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSydney Ladensohn Stern, \u003c\/b\u003e a New York-based freelance writer, has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Air Mail, Literary Hub, Publishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eCriterion's\u003ci\u003e The Current, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. She is author of \u003ci\u003eToyland: The High-Stakes Game of the Toy Industry\u003c\/i\u003e, a Book of the Month Club pick, and \u003ci\u003eGloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique. \u003c\/i\u003eFor more information, go to sydneylstern.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47635475562749,"sku":"9781496840851","price":57.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/SG1PZXpUendCQVBlbThOcktJSDZLUT09.webp?v=1780409081","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-brothers-mankiewicz-hope-heartbreak-and-hollywood-classics-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}