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- Feb. 15, 1993: Died:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 15, 1993 The Chemistry of Love
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 20
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- <p> DIED. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 83, film director, writer and
- producer; in Bedford, New York. Mankiewicz loved words; he
- filmed words; he realized that talking pictures were just that.
- Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he started off as a reporter
- for the Chicago Tribune before entering the world of film. He
- won an Oscar for best director and best screenplay for A Letter
- to Three Wives (1949) and won both those awards again for All
- About Eve (1950). He also directed one of the biggest film flops
- of all time: Cleopatra (1963, starring Elizabeth Taylor). But
- his cinematic successes were legion, and legendary: The
- Philadelphia Story (James Stewart), No Way Out (Sidney Poitier),
- Guys and Dolls (Marlon Brando), Suddenly Last Summer (Montgomery
- Clift), Woman of the Year (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy)
- and more.
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