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Film

The Mad Dog Of Europe

Herman Mankiewicz

Shortly after Adolf Hitler’s accession to power as Germany’s chancellor in 1933, the noted Hollywood screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz wrote The Mad Dog Of Europe, an anti-Nazi script that, he hoped, could be turned into a movie. As hard as he tried, he and his allies failed to convince studio moguls, many of whom were Jewish, […]

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Television

Mank Resurrects A Legendary Hollywood Creative Partnership

Gary Oldman plays Herman Mankiewicz in the Netflix movie Mank

David Fincher’s workmanlike film, Mank, shines a spotlight on one of the most productive collaborative partnerships in the annals of the Hollywood movie industry. Citizen Kane, the enduring 1941 cinematic classic, was the brainchild of Herman Mankiewicz, a seasoned wordsmith who struggled with alcoholism, and Orson Welles, a precocious upstart who basked in self-adulation. Now […]