Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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"Joseph Leo Mankiewicz" was a film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and twice won the Academy Award for both Academy Award for Directing/Best Director and Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay/Best Writing, Screenplay, for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950).

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[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.