Hepburn then passed the outline on to Joseph L. Mankiewicz at MGM, and said the price was $ 250, 000-half for her, half for the script.

They learned that director Joseph L. Mankiewicz had filmed out of sequence and had only done interiors, so Fox was then forced to allow Taylor several more weeks of filming.

Columbia then tried to get Herman Mankiewicz to write it, with Felix Young to produce.

According to the New York Times, in 1935, while he was a staff writer for MGM, the studio was notified by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, then Minister of Education and Propaganda under Adolf Hitler, that films written by Mankiewicz could not be shown in Nazi Germany unless his name was removed from the screen credits.

When the performance was repeated on Broadway in October 1925, Herman J. Mankiewicz — then the third-string theatre critic for The New York Times — was assigned to review the production.

Introduced during the Lyons / Mankiewicz era in 2008, " Critics Roundup " was a variation of the traditional format in which one of the hosts presented a film, reviewed it, and then spoke with three other critics who appeared via satellite.

Brando told Joseph L. Mankiewicz that he was attracted to " her enigmatic eyes, black as hell, pointing at you like fiery arrows ".

In the 1993 documentary Katharine Hepburn: All About Me, Hepburn herself says she was wearing high heels at the first meeting with Tracy and producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and said " I'm afraid I'm a bit tall for you, Mr. Tracy ".

Nofziger and Frank Mankiewicz were major players in halting the 1970s metrication effort in the USA, largely by convincing President Ronald Reagan to shut down the United States Metric Board.

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

* Cleopatra ( 1963 film ), a British-American-Swiss drama directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Tom Mankiewicz described his performance on the commentary track for Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as always playing Superman, but, when he was Clark, playing Superman who was playing Clark Kent.

* 1909 – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director ( d. 1993 )

It was an open secret in Hollywood that Cukor was homosexual, although he was discreet about his sexual orientation and " never carried it as a pin on his lapel ", as producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz put it.

The Barefoot Contessa, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, was filmed in Rome, and released in 1954.

Shooting had still not begun on a Welles film after a year, but after a meeting with writer Herman J. Mankiewicz Welles had a suitable project.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles.

* 1897 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American writer, director, and producer ( d. 1953 )

The term retronym was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times.

** Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer ( b. 1909 )

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 short story " The Wisdom of Eve ", by Mary Orr.

Category: Films directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, a friend of Tracy's, later theorized: " didn't leave Louise.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz lived with Tracy during the production of Test Pilot, and recounted that the actor would lock himself in his bedroom " working extremely hard " each night.

Joseph Mankiewicz ' 1949 House of Strangers is often considered a Lear adaptation, but the parallels are more striking in its 1954 Western remake Broken Lance in which a cattle baron played by Spencer Tracy tyrannises over his three sons, of whom only the youngest, Joe, played by Robert Wagner, remains loyal.

But England responded with 437 and then dramatically dismissed Australia for 166 with Bobby Peel taking 6 for 67.

In talks located in London that year, they expressed a willingness to discuss inspections ; the tables were then turned on Eisenhower, when he responded with an unwillingness on the part of the U. S. to permit inspections.

He responded, " ' The Birds of America ' will then raise in value as much as they are now depreciated by certain fools and envious persons.

Topps responded initially by repainting 13 of the cards to reduce the gore and sexuality, then, following inquiries from a Connecticut district attorney, agreed to halt production.

'" Nancy responded, " Bob, based on the press reports I read then, I wouldn't have liked me either!

It then responded to objections that baptism should follow faith, that the person baptised should consciously receive the grace of the sacrament, that the person should freely accept baptism, that infant baptism is unsuitable in a society marked by instability of values and conflicts of ideas, and that the practice is inimical to a missionary outlook on the part of the Church.

The Bills then responded with a 7-play, 43 yard scoring drive.

The Broncos then responded with an 80-yard scoring drive.

Tennessee then responded by scoring 16 unanswered points to tie the game with 2: 12 left in regulation.

The French government responded by drafting the strikers into the army and then ordering them back to work.

Hōjō Ujimasa, leader of the Hōjō clan responded by sending his much larger army into Shinano and then into Kai province.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

Pinker then responded to Gladwell's rebuttal.

Henny, who got an apple in his face, responded by saying " If you keep this up then there'll be a real Nightnurse on hand.

Llywelyn responded by invading his lands, first threatening Brecon, where the burgesses offered hostages for the payment of 100 marks, then heading for Swansea where Reginald de Braose met him to offer submission and to surrender the town.

The council first responded by sending furious letters, signed in the name of young King Henry, to the Pope, urging him to excommunicate Isabella and her husband, but then decided to come to terms with Isabella, as to avoid conflict with the Scottish king, who was eager to receive his bride.

In AD 215 Caracalla savagely responded to this insult by slaughtering the deputation of leading citizens who had unsuspectingly assembled before the city to greet his arrival, and then unleashed his troops for several days of looting and plunder in Alexandria.

Commodore responded with the VIC-20, and then the Commodore 64, which would go on to be the best-selling home computer of all time needed.

The Dutch responded by sending a fleet under Michiel de Ruyter that recaptured their African trade posts, captured most English trade stations there and then crossed the Atlantic for a punitive expedition against the English in America.

" a word which Luns then mistook as the Dutch word for " horses " (" paarden ") and enthusiastically responded " Yes, paarden!

Adnan al-Husayni, then head of the Waqf, responded by stating " We never asked for permission from the occupation.

The favourite responded immediately, catching Gyr in a few strides and then pulling ahead to win by two and a half lengths.

When President Bush's 2003 budget proposal threatened to cut education grants, she responded, " If he can run deficits for the military, then he can run deficits to educate our children.

Boone responded by leading a preemptive raid against the Shawnees across the Ohio River, and then by helping to successfully defend Boonesborough against a ten-day siege led by Blackfish, which began on September 7, 1778.