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"Fasten your seatbelts--it's going to be a bumpy night."
With that line, writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (with a little
help from Bette Davis) firmly secured his place in film history.
Starting off as a producer and screenwriter in the '30s, Mankiewicz
made his directorial debut in 1946, and just three years later
won unprecedented back-to-back writing and directing Oscars for
A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve. Witty, literate, and
always a field day for actors, Mankiewicz's
films suffered sometimes from being overly talky, but who
cared when the dialogue was so brilliant? Mankiewicz scored numerous
hits in the '50s before being called in as a replacement for the
1963 Elizabeth Taylor epic Cleopatra. The Egyptian fiasco crippled
his later career, though he bounced back with the clever thriller
Sleuth in 1972.
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