"[11]:144 "Mankiewicz found himself on story-swapping terms with the power behind it all, Hearst himself. Herman Mankiewicz: It’s more her as people, who don’t know her, imagine her to be.Charles Lederer: I see. Funny, adventurous, smarter than she acts. Now, I know you’d never stoop to that.Herman Mankiewicz: Only because I hadn’t heard. Who else could make a living tilting at windmills? He would do that to his own studio?Herman Mankiewicz: He doesn’t own MGM any more than Sam Goldwyn. I live in a fishbowl. John Houseman: [referring to the script] At this rate, you will never finish.Herman Mankiewicz: What I want to know is what you think of it.John Houseman: Of course, the writing is first-rate, but you know that. Orson Welles: Tell me what to expect.Herman Mankiewicz: I thought you’d want to be surprised.Orson Welles: You’re always surprising. And?Joseph Mankiewicz: “And?” Herman, “And?”Herman Mankiewicz: How stupid of me. [11]:21 The family lived first in New York and then moved to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where Herman's father accepted a teaching position. Art for art’s sake. Because he likes the way you talk. According to film historian Otto Friedrich, it made Mankiewicz "unhappy to hear Welles quoted in Louella Parsons's column, before the question of screen credits was officially settled, as saying, 'So I wrote Citizen Kane.' In socialism, everyone shares the wealth. [26][27] A future Hollywood biographer went so far as to suggest that Mankiewicz’s behavior "made him seem erratic even by the standards of Hollywood drunks. [5][9][10] In New York, Franz met his wife, Johanna Blumenau,[1] a seamstress from the German-speaking Kurland region of Latvia. Despite Welles' denial that the film was about Hearst, few people were convinced—including Hearst. Some are secondary. But you, a self-anointed savior-hyphenate, they’re just waiting to loathe you. During his hospital stay, one of his visitors was Orson Welles, who met him earlier and had become a great admirer of his wit. But one marvels at the debt those two self-destroyers owe to each other. And I say with Thomas Jefferson, “Truth has nothing to fear from error where reason is left free to combat it.”. Mank! Required fields are marked *. I’ve tried. Bottoms up. What do you think of Mank (2020) quotes? Are you, Mr. Mayer?Louis B. Mayer: Real families root for each other in the good times. Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (/ˈmæŋkəwɪts/; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). I won’t work with half the producers on the lot, and the other half won’t work with me.Sara Mankiewicz: What’s this, a racing form?Herman Mankiewicz: You stop reading, you stop learning. And if I chose not to dance, this sorry street peddler would starve. You were there. All you can hope is to leave the impression of one. He was a raging alcoholic, and … You’re the most observant man I know.Herman Mankiewicz: Then you deserve better.Marion Davies: That’s very sweet. Joseph Mankiewicz: [1934 – flashaback, referring to Mayer] The bastard reneged. Your email address will not be published. Ars gratia artis. I didn’t invent it. John Houseman: But.Herman Mankiewicz: [laughs] “But”, again.John Houseman: It’s three hundred twenty-seven pages. Joseph Mankiewicz: [referring to Hearst] Him, I get. For one reason or another, all of them want me to walk away. Your silly platonic affairs. You didn’t know that, did you? No studio was willing to produce his screenplay, "The Mad Dog of Europe,"[1] and in 1935, MGM was notified by Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Education and Propaganda under Hitler, that films written by Mankiewicz could not be shown in Nazi Germany unless his name was removed from the screen credits. Census records indicate the family lived on Academy Street. Two weeks after Mankiewicz joined the RKO payroll, he and Houseman departed Hollywood for Victorville, at the time a small agricultural community in the desert ninety miles east of Hollywood. Him, you f***ing ingrate. Louis B. Mayer: [as Sinclair is losing his campaign for Governor of California] You see, if you just give people what they need to know, in an emotional way, you can expect they’ll do the right thing.Herman Mankiewicz: I think what you mean, “If you keep telling people something untrue, loud and long enough, they’re apt to believe it.”Irving Thalberg: That’s not what he was saying. John Houseman: All I am saying is, no one can write like that.Herman Mankiewicz: But I can write like that, Houseman. You know better than anyone, not all characters are headliners. Mank, a black-and-white Mankiewicz biopic directed by David Fincher and starring Gary Oldman in the title role, was released on Netflix in December 2020. A show of hands, who knows what a vacuum cleaner is? These were the hardest-headed periods of American movies ... [and] the most highly acclaimed directors of that period, suggests that the writers ... in little more than a decade, gave American talkies their character. Marion Davies: I don’t even know who this Mr. Sinclair is, but he wrote about us for a book. "[8] :254–255 Herman eventually "saw Hearst as 'a finagling, calculating, machiavellian figure.' Mankiewicz's typist, Alexander, was a real person and in fact lent her name to Citizen Kane's Susan Alexander. Marion Davies: What do I have to complain about? So he runs for public office, and because he’s notably rich, he wins. He wants love. I think you skipped a few lines about the organ grinder story monksy’s attire. Earlier, he was a Berlin correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily,[1] assistant theater editor at The New York Times,[1] and the first regular drama critic at The New Yorker. Welles later claimed that he planned on a joint credit all along, but Mankiewicz sometimes claimed that Welles offered him a bonus of ten thousand dollars if he would let Welles take full credit. Let’s work something out.Herman Mankiewicz: I did come see you. Someone had to say it. Nobody can. Herman Mankiewicz: [drunk] Cigarette, please.Sara Mankiewicz: Hermie, if a match gets anywhere near your breath, you’ll burst into flames. Helps spread the blame around. In February 1938, Mankiewicz was assigned as the first of ten screenwriters to work on The Wizard of Oz. As one of his admirers in the early 1930s, Hearst often invited Mankiewicz to spend the weekend at San Simeon. Irving Thalberg: [referring to the smear campaign films] What did you think?Herman Mankiewicz: With all due respect to Shelly, King Kong they ain’t. In 1933, he went on leave from MGM to write a film warning Americans about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Without Welles there would have been no supreme moment for Herman. Herman Mankiewicz: None of it sings. And audible above all others was Irene Selznick: "Where is he? [Rita embraces Mank], Reporter: [1942 – Radio Press Conference] Aren’t you disappointed that it only won one Oscar?Orson Welles: Well, that, my good man, is Hollywood.Reporter: Do you anything you’d like to say to your coauthor, Mr. Mankiewicz?Orson Welles: I do have a message. Herman Mankiewicz: “There are letters of accent and letters of tone, but the best of all letters is to let her alone.”. Mankiewicz is best known for his collaboration with Orson Welles on the screenplay of Citizen Kane, for which they both won an Academy Award. Everyone is familiar with the nearly half-century-old “Raising Kane,” a 50,000-word Pauline Kael essay about who really wrote Citizen Kane. That’s politics. And then he turns twenty-four. The lonely showgirl, trapped in a castle, doing jigsaw puzzles. I intend to make pictures with the help of real literary minds.Herman Mankiewicz: I support that.William Randolph Hearst: Instead, what do most studios give us? Herman Mankiewicz. My movie star looks, or my diplomat’s charm?Sara Mankiewicz: I suppose because being married to you, Herman, I’m never bored. No, wait. The authorship later became a source of controversy. Herman Mankiewicz: [to Houseman] You said ninety days. I thought I was rejecting a humiliating handout, when all the time, I was nixing a respectable bribe.Joseph Mankiewicz: And I’m sorry I ever cared. I just know you are.Herman Mankiewicz: I have got such a hangover right now, there’s just a fighting chance I won’t.Marion Davies: I’m being burned at the stake, and I am dying for a ciggie-boo. Do not believe this. Prosit.Herman Mankiewicz: Mank-heim. You’re nothing but a court jester. - Herman Mankiewicz (Mank), This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory. "He did not want to be humiliated," said his wife, Sara. Shelly Metcalf: Look at what we did. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Lily Collins (The Mortal Instruments) as Rita Alexander Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as Herman Mankiewicz Tom Pelphrey (Ozark, Iron Fist) as Joseph Mankiewicz Tuppence Middleton (Sense8) as Sara Mankiewicz That you’ve done your best work was no accident. Mankiewicz was often asked to fix the screenplays of other writers, with much of his work uncredited. They don’t make me cry. [points to his head, heart and crotch]Louis B. Mayer: Here, here, and here. Marion Davies: I need a favor, but you’re going to have to promise you won’t laugh.Herman Mankiewicz: Given the state of the world, a tall order. Rita Alexander: [referring to Hearst] Did you know the man?Herman Mankiewicz: Maybe. I’m toiling with you in spirit, Mank. Placed in nomination for president, but it’s too radical for the boys in the back. I may be a loose cannon, but you, my friend, are an outsider. "[7] Most personally, the word "rosebud" was reportedly Hearst's private nickname for Davies' clitoris. It’s one of those cures that could be worse than the disease. The Citizen Kane script was true creative symbiosis, a partnership greater than the sum of its parts. John Houseman: The story is so scattered, I’m afraid one will need a road map.Herman Mankiewicz: You mean it’s a mess.John Houseman: Would you consider simplifying?Herman Mankiewicz: As Pascal once said, “If only I’d had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”. Take care of each other in tough ones. In fact, someone predicts that he will one day win the presidency and bring about, get this, a socialist revolution. Herman Mankiewicz: Thunder, lightning, blood, fire, religion.David O. Selznick: All in one film?Herman Mankiewicz: And with an unseasonal thaw. Marion Davies: Well, I read the script.Herman Mankiewicz: Who hasn’t?Marion Davies: It’s very grand, Mank, in its own way, and very much you. [8]:243–244 The two had three children: screenwriter Don Mankiewicz (1922–2015), politician Frank Mankiewicz (1924–2014), and novelist Johanna Mankiewicz Davis (1937–1974). Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiewicz and Lily Collins as Rita Alexander in Netflix's "Mank." [13], Kael notes that "beginning in 1926, Mankiewicz worked on an astounding number of films." I don’t use humor to keep myself above the fray. He wants more than adulation. Your email address will not be published. Joseph Mankiewicz: [referring to Hearst] Herman, this is me. What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it. Herman Mankiewicz: Now, along comes nemesis. Credit: NETFLIX/AP That’s not to say there’s no darkness in “Mank,” either, exemplified by the film’s villain – not Hearst, but MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer (played by Arliss Howard). Emotion. I removed any distraction, eliminated every excuse, your family, your cronies, liquor. Herman Mankiewicz: Our Quixote looks into the mirror of his youth and decides to break this glass, a maddening reminder of who he once was. Lily Collins as Rita Alexander and Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank All of Mankiewicz’s demons have made it into the movie, and they were considerable. Because true love on the big screens, we all know, is blind. Rita Alexander: [as they watch Joseph drive off] A rare bird, that. You may have heard MGM has more stars than there are in the heavens. They just run it for the moneyboys back East. Fincher reunites with … In communism, everyone shares the poverty.Irving Thalberg: Thank you, Mr. Mankiewicz.Herman Mankiewicz: Upton just wants you to apportion some of your Christmas bonus, Irving, to the people who clean your house.William Randolph Hearst: Now that’s why I always want Mank around.Marion Davies: Me too. [1937 – flashback to Hearst’s pary, as Herman drunkenly pitches the script he writes in 1940]Herman Mankiewicz: How about we make our Quixote A newspaperman? Orson Welles: Guess who phoned with an offer to buy out RKO’s investment and shelve the picture permanently?Herman Mankiewicz: Not Hearst?Orson Welles: Mank, I’m surprised. Or shall I call you Herman?Herman Mankiewicz: No. [24][25] Ten years before his death, he wrote: "I seem to become more and more of a rat in a trap of my own construction, a trap that I regularly repair whenever there seems to be danger of some opening that will enable me to escape. Herman Mankiewicz: [referring to Welles] No notes. By then, sound had come in, and in 1929 he did the script as well as the dialogue for The Dummy, as well as scripts for many directors, including William Wellman and Josef von Sternberg. On behalf of the secondary characters. You got a problem, come to Papa. An embarrassment of riches. Nicht wahr? What’s she like?Herman Mankiewicz: Why is it when you scratch a prim, starchy English schoolgirl, you get a swooning moving-picture fan who has forgotten all she ever learned about the Battle of Hastings?Rita Alexander: Hastings. ... and now that I have looked into Herman Mankiewicz's career it's apparent that he was a key linking figure in just the kind of movies my friends and I loved best. People think MGM stands for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Occasional flashes of what came to be called the "Mankiewicz humor" and satire distinguished his films, and became valued in the films of the 1930s. Between 1929 and 1935, he worked on at least twenty films, many of which he received no credit for. By the end of the week he had finished writing fifty-six pages of the script and included instructions to film the scenes in Kansas in black and white. However, as "a hard-drinking gambler," he hired men in his own image: Ben Hecht, Bartlett Cormack, Edwin Justus Mayer, writers comfortable with the iconoclasm of big-city newsrooms who would introduce their sardonic worldliness to movie audiences. Herman Mankiewicz: You’re not going to like this, Orson. Academy Awards for their screenplay.[6]. 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What makes me cry? Mankiewicz." Herman Mankiewicz: Irving, you’re a literate man. Not a straight line pointing to the nearest exit. Rita Alexander: As you Yanks say, “He went out like a light.” Herman Mankiewicz: I couldn’t have put it better myself, which may be why I write [1] Some time later, Welles commented on this allegation: God, if I hadn't loved him I would have hated him after all those ridiculous stories, persuading people I was offering him money to have his name taken off ... that he would be carrying on like this, denouncing me as a coauthor, screaming around.[11]:274. Rita Alexander: How do you do, Mr. Mankiewicz?Herman Mankiewicz: That’s a big question. You agreed not to take screen credit.Herman Mankiewicz: I needed the work.John Houseman: You may want to reconsider.Herman Mankiewicz: All I currently want is a real shower, a cocktail, and my Sara to wake up to. I met him after he started bankrolling his girlfriend’s pictures. He was involved with the following films:[29], The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics, "Herman Mankiewicz, Film Writer, Dies at 55", The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941 â€“ 1950, "H. J. Mankiewicz, Screenwriter, 56 [sic]. What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it. New York playwright and drama critic?Herman Mankiewicz: Turned humble screenwriter, Mr. Hearst.William Randolph Hearst: Why, no need to be humble, Mr. Mankiewicz. You write for the movies because you’re super at it. Herman Mankiewicz: And for that, I cannot thank you enough.Orson Welles: But with credit for a risky undertaking must go the weight of real responsibility. Destroying in the process not one man, but two. And Hollywood's resentment and distrust of Welles, the nonconformist upstart, were even greater since he had lived up to his wonderboy ballyhoo. It’s Lear. Many stars have, and now they twinkle elsewhere. An act of purging violence.Orson Welles: Maybe. Ben Hecht: Well, we see a different kind of Paramount picture.David O. Selznick: Different how?Charles MacArthur: Frankenstein and The Wolf Man all rolled into one, only…David O. Selznick: I don’t make cheap horror pictures, Universal does.Herman Mankiewicz: This is different. It would seem to involve a lot of unnecessary labor and expense". Welles's name as coauthor was drowned out by voices all through the audience calling out, "Mank! At home again in the U.S., he took a job as a reporter for the New York World. As the screenplay category approached, he pretended to be hardly listening. Herman Mankiewicz: We have to be vigilant.Shelly Metcalf: In regards to?Herman Mankiewicz: People sitting in the dark, willingly checking their disbelief at the door. That’s Greek for any guy in a black hat. Il film segue la vita dello sceneggiatore Herman J. 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