Book
Competing with idiots : Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a dual portrait
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Physical Description
xv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary
"A dual biography of brothers Herman and Joseph Mankiewicz, each a Hollywood legend"--
Herman Mankiewicz went to Hollywood in 1926, was almost immediately successful, and became one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood. His brother Joe, eleven years younger, focused, organized, a disciplined writer, produced, wrote and directed Oscar winning films before seeing his career upended by the spectacular fiasco of Cleopatra. Davis-- grandson of Herman, great-nephew of Joe, shows us their dreams and desires, fears and feuds, struggles to free themselves from their dark past; and the driving forces that kept them bound to a system they loved and hated. -- adapted from jacket
Contents
- Prologue
- Rosebud
- Gertrude Slescynski
- The New Yorker
- Yes, the New Yorker
- Hollywood
- Trapped
- Monkeybitch
- American
- Fratricide
- A new heart
- Ships in the night
- Eve
- No way out
- Hooray for the Bulldog
- Man-about-town
- A river in Egypt
- Legacy.