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{{short description|American screenwriter (1897–1953)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Herman J. Mankiewicz
| image         = File:Herman-Mankiewicz.jpg
| caption       = Mankiewicz in the 1940s
| birth_name    = Herman Jacob Mankiewicz
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1897|11|7}}
| birth_place   = New York City, U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1953|3|5|1897|11|7}}
| death_place   = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| alma_mater    = [[Columbia University]] (BA)
| occupation    = [[Screenwriter]]
| years_active  = 1926–1952
| spouse        = {{marriage|Sara Aaronson|1920}}
| children      = 3, including [[Don Mankiewicz]] and [[Frank Mankiewicz]]
| family        = [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]] (brother)<br />See [[Mankiewicz family]]
}}

'''Herman Jacob Mankiewicz''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|æ|ŋ|k|ə|w|ɪ|t|s}} {{respell|MANG|kə|wits}}; November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American [[screenwriter]] who, with [[Orson Welles]], wrote the [[Screenplay for Citizen Kane|screenplay]] for ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941). Both Mankiewicz and Welles went on to receive the [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]] for the film. Mankiewicz was previously a Berlin correspondent for [[Women's Wear Daily|''Women’s Wear Daily'']],<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Stern|first=Sydney Ladensohn|title=The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=2019|isbn=9781617032677|location=Jackson|pages=}}</ref> assistant theater editor at ''[[The New York Times]],''<ref name=":0" /> and the first regular drama critic at&nbsp;''[[The New Yorker]]''.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=latimesobit/><ref name=young>{{cite book |last=Young |first=Toby |author-link=Toby Young |title=How to Lose Friends and Alienate People |year=2008 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |quote=Of all Ben Hecht's colleagues, perhaps the most heroic was Herman J. Mankiewicz, the ex-New York Times journalist who wrote Citizen Kane. ... |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8kRKQCLyO8C&pg=PA25 |isbn=978-0-306-81613-0 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=amg>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/101037/Herman-Mankiewicz |title=Herman J. Mankiewicz |access-date=February 9, 2009 |first=Nan |last=Robertson |archive-date=February 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228073737/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/101037/Herman-Mankiewicz |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Alexander Woollcott]] said that Mankiewicz was the "funniest man in New York".<ref name=eb/><ref name="nyt_citizenkane">{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/9737/Citizen-Kane/details |title=Citizen Kane (1941) |access-date=February 9, 2009 |archive-date=February 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213085418/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/9737/Citizen-Kane/details |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Mankiewicz was often asked to [[Script doctor|fix other writers' screenplays]], with much of his work uncredited. His writing style became valued in the films of the 1930s—a style that included a slick, satirical, and witty humor, in which dialogue almost totally carried the film, and which eventually become associated with the "typical American film" of that period.<ref name=Kilbourne/>{{rp|219}} In addition to ''Citizen Kane,'' he wrote or worked on films including ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'', ''[[Man of the World (film)|Man of the World]]'', ''[[Dinner at Eight (1933 film)|Dinner at Eight]]'', ''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]'' and ''[[The Pride of St. Louis]]''.

Film critic [[Pauline Kael]] credits Mankiewicz with having written, alone or with others, "about forty of the films I remember best from the twenties and thirties...He was a key linking figure in just the kind of movies my friends and I loved best."<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|247}} Nearly seventy years after his death, Mankiewicz was portrayed by actor [[Gary Oldman]] in the 2020 [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]-winning film ''[[Mank]]''.

==Early life==
Mankiewicz was born in New York City in 1897. His parents were [[History of the Jews in Germany|German-Jewish]] immigrants: his father, Franz Mankiewicz, was born in [[Berlin]] and emigrated to the U.S. from [[Hamburg]] in 1892.<ref name=eb/><ref>{{cite book |title=Joseph L. Mankiewicz|year=1983|quote=The father, Franz Mankiewicz, emigrated from Germany in 1892, living first in New York and then moving to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in to take a job ...|isbn=0-8057-9291-0 |last1= Dick|first1= Bernard F.|publisher=Twayne Publishers }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives |year=1998 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |quote=Mankiewicz was the youngest of three children born to the German immigrants Franz Mankiewicz, a secondary schoolteacher, and Johanna Blumenau, a homemaker. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVUYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Franz+Mankiewicz%22 |isbn=0-684-80620-7 |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122223319/https://books.google.com/books?id=FVUYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Franz+Mankiewicz%22 |url-status=live }}</ref> In New York he met his wife, Johanna Blumenau,<ref name=":0" /> a [[seamstress]] from the German-speaking [[Courland|Kurland]] region of [[Latvia]].<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|21}} The family lived first in New York, then moved to [[Wilkes-Barre]], [[Pennsylvania]], where Herman's father accepted a teaching position. In 1909, Herman's brother, [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]—who later became a successful writer, producer, and director—was born, and both boys and a sister, [[Joseph Benjamin Stenbuck|Erna]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Joseph Mankiewicz Weds. MGM Producer Marries Rose Stradner, Viennese Actress.  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/07/29/archives/joseph-mankiewicz-weds-mgm-producer-marries-rose-stradner-viennese.html|newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=July 29, 1939 |access-date=2008-07-02 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Erna Mankiewicz Stenbuck, 78, Retired New York Schoolteacher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/19/archives/erna-mankiewicz-stenbuck-78-retired-new-york-schoolteacher.html <!-- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2071FF9355C12728DDDA00994D0405B898BF1D3 --> |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=August 19, 1979 |access-date=7 July 2024 }}</ref> spent their childhood there. Census records indicate the family lived on Academy Street.{{cn|date=June 2025}}

Mankiewicz was described as a "bookish, introspective child who, despite his intelligence, was never able to win approval from his demanding father" who was known to belittle his achievements.<ref name=Kilbourne>{{cite book|last=Kilbourne|first=Don|editor1-last=Morsberger|editor1-first=Robert E.|editor2-last=Lesser|editor2-first=Stephen O.|editor3-last=Clark|editor3-first=Randall|title=Dictionary of Literary Biography|volume=26: American Screenwriters|publisher=[[Gale Research Company]]|location=Detroit|year=1984|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanscreenwr0000unse_h3m5/page/218 218–224]|chapter=Herman Mankiewicz (1897–1953)|isbn=978-0-8103-0917-3|title-link=Dictionary of Literary Biography}}</ref>{{rp|218–224}} The family moved to New York City in 1913, where Herman's father accepted a teaching position, at [[Stuyvesant High School]],<ref name="magazine.columbia/mankiewicz-family">{{cite web |last1=Hond |first1=Paul |title=How the Mankiewicz Family Got Their Hollywood Ending |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/how-mankiewicz-family-got-their-hollywood-ending |website=Columbia Magazine |access-date=7 July 2024 |language=en |date=Fall 2022}}</ref> and Herman graduated from [[Columbia College (New York)|Columbia College]] in 1917 where he was the “Off-Hour” editor of the ''[[Columbia Spectator]]'' student newspaper.<ref name = eb>
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==Early career==
After a period as managing editor of the ''American Jewish Chronicle'' and a reporter at the New York Tribune,<ref name="newspapers/372836671"/> he joined the [[United States Army Air Service]] to fly planes, but because of airsickness, enlisted instead as a [[private first class]] with the [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]], [[American Expeditionary Force|A.E.F.]]<ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/121043%7C70400/Herman-J.-Mankiewicz#biography HERMAN J. MANKIEWICZ, Screenwriter - BIOGRAPHY] [[Turner Classic Movies]]. Retrieved July 12, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201114113947/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/herman-mankiewicz-pauline-kael-and-the-battle-over-citizen-kane Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle Over “Citizen Kane”] ''[[The New Yorker]]'' via [[Internet Archive]]. Retrieved July 12, 2022.</ref><ref>[https://algonquinroundtable.org/5-things-you-dont-know-about-herman-j-mankiewicz/ 5 Things You Don’t Know About Herman J. Mankiewicz] [[Algonquin Round Table]]. Retrieved July 12, 2022.</ref> In 1919 and 1920, he was director of the [[American Red Cross]] News Service in Paris.<ref name="newspapers/372836671">{{cite news |title=OBITUARIES |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/372836671/ |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=6 March 1953 |location=Chicago, Illinois |page=22 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> 

==Marriage==
After returning to the U.S., he married Sara Aaronson of [[Baltimore]]. He took her overseas on his next job as a newspaper writer in [[Berlin]] from 1920 to 1922; then returned to the U.S. to do political reporting for [[George Seldes]] on the ''[[Chicago Tribune]].''<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|243–244}} Herman and Sara had three children: screenwriter [[Don Mankiewicz]] (1922–2015), political adviser [[Frank Mankiewicz]] (1924–2014), and novelist [[Peter Davis (director)#Personal life|Johanna Mankiewicz Davis]]<ref name="nytimes/killed-johanna-davis">{{cite news |last1=McFadden |first1=Robert D. |title=WRITER IS KILLED BY TAXICAB HERE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/27/archives/writer-is-killed-by-taxicab-here-johanna-davis-was-author-of-the.html |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 July 1974}}</ref><ref name="time/6797114">{{cite magazine |title=Education: Q.E.D. |url=https://time.com/archive/6797114/education-q-e-d/ |access-date=7 July 2024 |magazine=TIME |date=26 May 1952 |language=en}}</ref> (1937–1974).

==Reporter, publicist, playwright==
While a reporter in [[Berlin]], Mankiewicz also sent pieces on drama and books to ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name=young/><ref name=amg/> At one point he was hired in Berlin by dancer [[Isadora Duncan]] to be her publicist in preparation for her return tour in the United States. At home again in the U.S., he took a job as a reporter for the ''[[New York World]]''. Known as a "gifted, prodigious writer,"{{Quote without source|date=September 2022}} he contributed to ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', and numerous other magazines. While still in his twenties, he collaborated with [[Heywood Broun]], [[Dorothy Parker]], [[Robert E. Sherwood]] and others on a revue; and collaborated with [[George S. Kaufman]] on a play, ''[[The Good Fellows]],'' and with [[Marc Connelly]] on the play ''[[The Wild Man of Borneo (film)|The Wild Man of Borneo]]'' (1927). From 1923 to 1926, he was at ''[[The New York Times]]'' as assistant theater editor to George S. Kaufman, and soon after became the first regular theater critic for ''[[The New Yorker]]'', writing a column during 1925 and early 1926. He was a member of the [[Algonquin Round Table]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://algonquinroundtable.org/members.html |title=Members of the Algonquin Round Table |access-date=February 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929131155/http://algonquinroundtable.org/members.html |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> His writing attracted the notice of film producer [[Walter Wanger]], who offered him a contract to work at Paramount,<ref name=":0" /> and Mankiewicz soon moved to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]].<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|244}}

==Hollywood==
===Early success===
Paramount paid Mankiewicz  $400 a week plus bonuses, and by the end of 1927, he was head of [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]'s scenario department. Film critic [[Pauline Kael]] wrote about him and the creation of ''Citizen Kane'' in "[[Raising Kane]]", her 1971 ''[[New Yorker (magazine)|New Yorker]]'' article: "In January, 1928, there was a newspaper item reporting that he (Mankiewicz) was in New York 'lining up a new set of newspaper feature writers and playwrights to bring to Hollywood... Most of the newer writers on Paramount's staff who contributed the most successful stories of the past year' were selected by 'Mank.'"<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|244}} Film historian Scott Eyman notes that Mankiewicz was put in charge of writer recruitment by Paramount. As "a hard-drinking gambler," however, he hired men in his own image, such as [[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.<ref>Eyman, Scott. ''The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926–1930'', Simon and Schuster (1997)</ref>

Kael notes that "beginning in 1926, Mankiewicz worked on an astounding number of films." In 1927 and 1928, he did the [[Intertitle|titles]] (printed dialogue and explanations) for at least twenty-five films starring [[Clara Bow]], [[Bebe Daniels]], [[Nancy Carroll]], [[Wallace Beery]] and other public favorites. By then, sound had arrived, and in 1929 he wrote the script and dialogue for ''The Dummy,'' and scripts for many other directors, including [[William Wellman]] and [[Josef von Sternberg]].<ref name=Kael/>

Other screenwriters made large contributions to Hollywood's early sound films, but "probably none larger than Mankiewicz," according to Kael. At the beginning of the [[Sound film|Talkies]] era, he was one of the highest-paid writers in the world, because, Kael writes, "He wrote the kind of movies that were disapproved of as 'fast' and immoral. His heroes weren't soft-eyed and bucolic; he brought good-humored toughness to the movies, and energy and astringency. And the public responded, because it was eager for modern American subjects."<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|247}} Ben Hecht described him as "a [[Prometheus|Promethean]] wit bound in a Promethean body, one of the most entertaining men in existence ... [and] called the '[[Central Park West]] [[Voltaire]]' ".<ref>Louvish, Simon. ''Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W.C. Fields'', W.W. Norton & Co. (1999)</ref>{{rp|330}}

According to Kael, Mankiewicz did not work on every kind of picture. He did not do [[Westerns]], for example; and once, when a studio attempted to punish him for his customary misbehavior by assigning him to a [[Rin Tin Tin]] picture, he rebelled by turning in a script that began with the craven dog frightened by a mouse and reached its climax with a house on fire and the dog taking a baby into the flames.<ref name=Kael/>{{Rp|246}}{{efn|Mankiewicz wrote at least two [[Jack Holt (actor)|Jack Holt]] Westerns, ''[[Avalanche (1928 film)|Avalanche]]'' and ''[[The Water Hole]]''.<ref name="AFIcat">{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&TBL=PN&Type=WP&ID=70400&pName=%20%20Herman%20J.%20Mankiewicz |title=Herman J. Mankiewicz |publisher=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films|The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941&nbsp;– 1950]] |access-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-date=March 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321034046/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&TBL=PN&Type=WP&ID=70400&pName=%20%20Herman%20J.%20Mankiewicz |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

===Style===
Shortly after his arrival on the West Coast, Mankiewicz sent a [[telegram]] to journalist-friend [[Ben Hecht]] in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around."<ref name=Kilbourne/> In the film ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]'', when the sheriff asks who threw a bucket out the window, [[Walter Catlett]]'s character replies, "Judge Mankiewicz threw it," a nod to his friend by Hecht.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Front Page |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgVrmphq5m0 |website=You Tube | date=March 24, 2025 }}</ref> He attracted other New York writers to Hollywood who contributed to a burst of creative, tough, sardonic styles of writing for the fast-growing movie industry.

Between 1929 and 1935, he worked on at least twenty films, many of which he received no credit for. Between 1930 and 1932 he was either producer or associate producer on four comedies and helped write their screenplays without credit: ''Laughter'', ''[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]'', ''[[Horse Feathers]]'', and ''[[Million Dollar Legs (1932 film)|Million Dollar Legs]]'', which many critics considered one of the funniest comedies of the early 1930s.<ref name=Kilbourne/> In 1933, he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where, along with Frances Marion,<ref name=":0" /> he adapted ''[[Dinner at Eight (1933 film)|Dinner at Eight]]'', which was based on the George S. Kaufman/[[Edna Ferber]] play, and became one of the most popular comedies at that time and remains a "classic" comedy.

In 1933, he went on leave from MGM to write a film warning Americans about the rise of [[Adolf Hitler]] in Germany.  No studio was willing to produce his screenplay, ''[[The Mad Dog of Europe]]'',<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=nytobit/> During [[World War II]], Mankiewicz officially sponsored and took financial responsibility for many [[refugees]] fleeing [[Nazi Germany]] for the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Spencer|first=Samuel|url=https://www.newsweek.com/mank-netflix-herman-mankiewicz-gary-oldman-german-jewish-refugees-frieda-1552096|title="Mank" on Netflix: Did Herman Mankiewicz Bring 100 Refugees to the U.S.?|access-date=December 7, 2020|date=December 4, 2020|work=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref>

===''The Wizard of Oz''===
In February 1938, Mankiewicz was assigned as the first of ten screenwriters to work on ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''. Three days after he started writing, he handed in a 17-page [[Film treatment|treatment]] of what was later known as "the Kansas sequence". While [[L. Frank Baum]] devoted less than a thousand words in [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|his book]] to Kansas, Mankiewicz almost balanced the attention between [[Kansas]] and [[Land of Oz|Oz]], feeling it necessary that audiences relate to [[Dorothy Gale]] in a real world before she was transported to a magic one. By the end of the week he had finished 56 pages, and included instructions to film the scenes in Kansas in [[black and white]]. His goal, according to [[film historian]] [[Aljean Harmetz]], was to "capture in pictures what Baum had captured in words—the grey lifelessness of Kansas contrasted with the visual richness of Oz."<ref name=Harmetz>Harmetz, Aljean. ''The Making of the Wizard of Oz'', Hyperion (1998)</ref>{{rp|28}} He was not credited for his work on the film.

===''Citizen Kane''===
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Mankiewicz is best known for his collaboration with [[Orson Welles]] on the [[Screenplay for Citizen Kane|screenplay]] of ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', for which they shared an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]].  The authorship later became a source of controversy. [[Pauline Kael]] attributed ''Kane''{{'}}s screenplay to Mankiewicz in [[Raising Kane|a 1971 essay]] that was and continues to be strongly disputed.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Rich">{{cite news |last=Rich |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Rich |date=October 27, 2011 |title=Roaring at the Screen with Pauline Kael |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/roaring-at-the-screen-with-pauline-kael.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2015-09-04 |archive-date=August 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825010419/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/roaring-at-the-screen-with-pauline-kael.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McCarthy |first=Todd |author-link=Todd McCarthy |date=August 22, 1997 |title=Welles pic script scrambles H'wood history |url=https://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/welles-pic-script-scrambles-h-wood-history-1116678396/ |newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=2015-09-04 |archive-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112143336/http://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/welles-pic-script-scrambles-h-wood-history-1116678396/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Much debate has centered on this issue, largely because of the importance of the film itself, which most agree is a fictionalized biography of newspaper publisher [[William Randolph Hearst]]. According to film biographer [[David Thomson (film critic)|David Thomson]], however, "No one can now deny Herman Mankiewicz credit for the germ, shape, and pointed language of the screenplay..."<ref name=Thomson>Thomson, David, ''A Biographical Dictionary of Film'', 3rd&nbsp;ed. (1995) Alfred A. Knopf</ref>

Mankiewicz biographer [[Richard Meryman]] notes that the dispute had various causes, including the way the movie was promoted. When [[RKO]] opened the movie on [[Broadway Theatre (53rd Street)|Broadway]] on May 1, 1941, followed by showings at theaters in other large cities, the publicity programs included photographs of Welles as "the one-man band, directing, acting, and writing." In a letter to his father afterwards, Mankiewicz wrote, "I'm particularly furious at the incredibly insolent description of how Orson wrote his masterpiece. The fact is that there isn't one single line in the picture that wasn't in writing{{emdash}}writing from and by me{{emdash}}before ever a camera turned."<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|270}} Mankiewicz biographer Sydney Ladensohn Stern discounts his assertion as his defensiveness with his father, especially because he and other family members had recently bailed him out financially.<ref name=":0" />

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''.' Mankiewicz went to the [[Screen Writers Guild]] and declared that he was the original author. 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. Welles eventually agreed to share credit with Mankiewicz and furthermore, to list his name first.<ref name=":0" /> Sometime later, Welles commented on this allegation:
<blockquote>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.<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|274}}</blockquote>

====Hearst's inner circle====
Mankiewicz became good friends with Hollywood screenwriter [[Charles Lederer]], who was [[Marion Davies]]'s nephew. Lederer grew up as a Hollywood habitué, spending much time at [[San Simeon]], where Davies reigned as [[William Randolph Hearst]]'s mistress. As one of Mankiewicz's admirers in the early 1930s, Hearst often invited him to spend the weekend at San Simeon.

"Herman told [[Joseph Mankiewicz|Joe]] to come to the office of their mutual friend Charlie Lederer."<ref name=Meryman>Meryman, Richard. ''Mank'' (New York, William Morrow, 1978)</ref>{{rp|144}} "Mankiewicz found himself on story-swapping terms with the power behind it all, Hearst himself. When he had been in Hollywood only a short time, he met Marion Davies and Hearst through his friendship with Charles Lederer, a writer, then in his early twenties, whom [[Ben Hecht]] had met and greatly admired in New York when Lederer was still in his teens. Lederer, a child prodigy who had entered college at thirteen, got to know Mankiewicz."<ref name=Kael>Kael, Pauline. ''For Keeps'' (New York, Penguin Books, 1994)</ref> {{rp|254–255}} Herman eventually "saw Hearst as 'a finagling, calculating, Machiavellian figure.' But also, with Charlie Lederer, ... wrote and had printed parodies of [[Hearst newspapers]]."<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|212–213}}

In 1939, Mankiewicz suffered a broken leg in a driving accident and had to be hospitalized. During his hospital stay, one of his visitors was [[Orson Welles]], who met him earlier and had become a great admirer of his wit. During the months after his release from the hospital, he and Welles began working on story ideas which led to the creation of ''Citizen Kane''.

Despite Welles' denial that the film was about Hearst, few people were convinced—including Hearst. After the release of ''Citizen Kane'', Hearst pursued a longtime vendetta against Mankiewicz and Welles for writing the story.<ref name=Kilbourne/>
"Certain elements in the film were taken from Mankiewicz's own experience: the sled [[Citizen Kane#Film memorabilia|Rosebud]] was based—according to some sources—on a very important bicycle that was stolen from him. ... [and] some of Kane's speeches are almost verbatim copies of Hearst's."<ref name=Kilbourne/> Most personally, the word "rosebud" was reportedly Hearst's private nickname for Davies' [[clitoris]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1989/aug/17/rosebud/ |title=Rosebud by Jay Topkis   |magazine= [[The New York Review of Books]] |publisher=Nybooks.com |access-date=2014-05-09 |archive-date=June 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615003235/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1989/aug/17/rosebud/ |url-status=live |last1=Topkis |first1=Jay |last2=Vidal |first2=Gore }}</ref> Hearst's thoughts about the film are unknown; what is certain is that his extensive chain of newspapers and radio stations blocked all mentions of the film, and refused to accept advertising for it, while some Hearst employees worked behind the scenes to block or restrict its [[Film distribution|distribution]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJBlaIC-VG4C&q=louella+parsons+orson+welles&pg=PA168 |title=Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius – Charles Higham – Google Books |date=September 15, 1985 |access-date=2014-05-09 |isbn=9780312312800 |last1=Higham |first1=Charles |publisher=Macmillan |archive-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122223341/https://books.google.com/books?id=pJBlaIC-VG4C&q=louella+parsons+orson+welles&pg=PA168 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Academy Award celebration====
''Citizen Kane'' was nominated for an [[Academy Award]] in every possible category, including [[Best Original Screenplay]]. Meryman writes, "Herman insisted he had no chance to win, though ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' had given the film first place in ten of its twelve divisions. The fear of Hearst, he felt, was still alive. And Hollywood's resentment and distrust of Welles, the nonconformist upstart, were even greater since he had lived up to his wonderboy ballyhoo."<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|272}} Neither Welles nor Mankiewicz attended the dinner, which was broadcast on radio. Welles was in [[South America]] filming ''[[It's All True (film)|It's All True]]'', and Herman refused to attend. "He did not want to be humiliated," said his wife, Sara.

[[Richard Meryman]] describes the evening:

<blockquote>On the night of the awards, Herman turned on his radio and sat in his bedroom chair. Sara lay on the bed. As the screenplay category approached, he pretended to be hardly listening. Suddenly from the radio, half screamed, came "Herman J. Mankiewicz." Welles's name as coauthor was drowned out by voices all through the audience calling out, "Mank! Mank! Where is he?" And audible above all others was [[Irene Selznick]]: "Where is he?"<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|272}}</blockquote>

[[George J. Schaefer]] accepted Herman's Oscar. "Except for this coauthor award, the [[Motion Picture Academy]] [[excommunicated]] Orson Welles," wrote Meryman, "[and] as [[Pauline Kael]] put it, 'The members of the Academy ... probably felt good because their hearts had gone out to crazy, reckless Mank, their own resident loser-genius."<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|272}}

====The film as a whole====
Richard Meryman concludes that "taken as a whole ... ''Citizen Kane'' was overwhelmingly Welles's film, a triumph of intense personal magic. Herman was one of the talents, the crucial one, that were mined by Welles. But one marvels at the debt those two self-destroyers owe to each other. Without Welles there would have been no supreme moment for Herman. Without Mankiewicz there would have been no perfect idea at the perfect time for Welles ... to confirm his genius ... [[Screenplay for Citizen Kane|The ''Citizen Kane'' script]] was true creative symbiosis, a partnership greater than the sum of its parts."<ref name=Meryman/>{{rp|275}}

==Alcoholism and death==
Mankiewicz was an [[alcoholic]].<ref name=citizen>{{cite book |title=Citizen Welles |year=1989 |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]] |quote=Mankiewicz was a screenwriter, a legend of acerbic wit, outrageous social behavior, and advanced alcoholism. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cAK1AAAAIAAJ&q=Mankiewicz+alcoholism |isbn=0-684-18982-8 |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122223319/https://books.google.com/books?id=cAK1AAAAIAAJ&q=Mankiewicz+alcoholism |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Orson Welles, a Biography |year=1995 |publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation |quote=The only problem with Mankiewicz was his notorious alcoholism. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlqsYy512WIC&pg=PA185 |isbn=0-87910-199-7 |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122223319/https://books.google.com/books?id=KlqsYy512WIC&pg=PA185 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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. I haven't decided yet about making it bomb proof. It would seem to involve a lot of unnecessary labor and expense."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stern|first=Sydney Ladensohn|title=The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|year=2019|isbn=9781617032677|location=Jackson|pages=250}}</ref><ref name="wsj.com">{{cite web|last=Eyman|first=Scott|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-brothers-mankiewicz-review-a-steamroller-and-a-mensch-11571430954|title="The Brothers Mankiewicz" Review: A Steamroller and a Mensch|access-date=November 22, 2020|date=October 18, 2019|work=[[Wall Street Journal]]|archive-date=October 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028080649/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-brothers-mankiewicz-review-a-steamroller-and-a-mensch-11571430954|url-status=live}}</ref> 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."<ref name="wsj.com"/>

Mankiewicz died March 5, 1953, at age of 55, of [[Uremia|uremic poisoning]], the result of liver failure,<ref name="haaretz/2013-11-07-this-day">{{cite news |last1=Green |title=This Day in Jewish History: Hard-drinking, 'Sell-out' 'Wizard of Oz' Screenwriter Is Born |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-11-07/ty-article/.premium/this-day-sell-out-super-screenwriter-born/0000017f-e350-d804-ad7f-f3fa7efc0000 |access-date=January 14, 2024 |work=[[haaretz.com]] |date=7 November 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240114063649/https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2013-11-07/ty-article/.premium/this-day-sell-out-super-screenwriter-born/0000017f-e350-d804-ad7f-f3fa7efc0000 |archive-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center|Cedars of Lebanon Hospital]] in Los Angeles.<ref name=latimesobit>{{cite news |title=Herman Mankiewicz, Film Writer, Dies at 55 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/426230131.html?dids=426230131:426230131&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Mar+06%2C+1953&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Herman+Mankiewicz%2C+Film+Writer%2C+Dies+at+55&pqatl=google|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 6, 1953 |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 9, 2009 |archive-date=February 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225175115/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/426230131.html?dids=426230131:426230131&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&date=Mar+06%2C+1953&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Herman+Mankiewicz%2C+Film+Writer%2C+Dies+at+55&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=nytobit>{{cite news |title=H. J. Mankiewicz, Screenwriter, 56 [sic]. Winner of Academy Award in 1941 Dies. Playwright Was Former Newspaper Man. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/03/06/archives/h-j-mkiewicz-screen-writer-56-winner-of-academy-award-inl-1941.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 6, 1953 |url-access=subscription |access-date=January 2, 2014 |archive-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129080651/http://www.nytimes.com/1953/03/06/archives/h-j-mkiewicz-screen-writer-56-winner-of-academy-award-inl-1941.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Orson Welles said of him, "He saw everything with clarity. No matter how odd or how right or how marvelous his point of view was, it was always diamond white. Nothing muzzy."<ref name="wsj.com" />

==Legacy==
In looking back on his early films, Pauline Kael wrote that Mankiewicz had, in fact, written (alone or with others) "about forty of the films I remember best from the twenties and thirties. I hadn't realized how extensive his career was. ... 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. 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."<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|247}}

Director and screenwriter [[Nunnally Johnson]] claimed that the "two most brilliant men he has ever known were [[George S. Kaufman]] and Herman Mankiewicz, and that Mankiewicz was the more brilliant of the two. ... [and] spearheaded the movement of that whole Broadway style of wisecracking, fast-talking, cynical-sentimental entertainment onto the national scene."<ref name=Kael/>{{rp|246}}

His friend [[Ben Hecht]] wrote this shortly after Mankiewicz's death. 
<blockquote>When I remember the dull and inane whom Herman enriched by his presence, and his numbskull "betters" who tried feebly to echo his observations; when I remember his throw-away genius, his modesty, his shrug at adversity; when I remember that unlike the lords of success around him he attacked only the strong with his wit and defended always the weak with his heart, I feel proud to have known a man of importance.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hecht |first1=Ben |title=A Child of the Century |date=2020 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0300251791}}</ref></blockquote>

In 2024, Mankiewicz was announced as a posthumous inductee into the ''[[Luzerne County]] Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timesleader.com/news/1651433/luzerne-county-arts-entertainment-hall-of-fame-announces-2024-induction-class | title=Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame announces 2024 induction class | date=April 13, 2024 }}</ref>

==Depictions==
Mankiewicz is played by [[John Malkovich]] in ''[[RKO 281]]'', a 1999 American film about the battle over ''Citizen Kane''.

''[[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.<ref name="hollywood reporter_mank">{{cite news |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gary-oldman-star-david-finchers-herman-mankiewicz-biopic-1223648 |title=Gary Oldman to Star in David Fincher's Biopic of 'Citizen Kane' Co-Writer Herman Mankiewicz |work=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=July 10, 2019 |archive-date=July 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710222146/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gary-oldman-star-david-finchers-herman-mankiewicz-biopic-1223648 |url-status=live }}</ref> Oldman was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] for his performance.

==Filmography==
He was involved<ref>
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*[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/121043%7C70400/Herman-J.-Mankiewicz Herman J. Mankiewicz] at the [[TCM Movie Database]]<!-- {{TCMDb name | id= 121043{{!}}7040 | name= Herman J. Mankiewicz}}  -->
* [https://www.allmovie.com/artist/herman-j-mankiewicz-an12944 Herman J. Mankiewicz] at [[AllMovie]]<!-- {{AllMovie name | id= an12944 | name= Herman J. Mankiewicz}} -->
</ref> with the following films:

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* ''[[The Road to Mandalay (1926 film)|The Road to Mandalay]]'' (1926) — Writer (story credit)
* ''Stranded in Paris'' (1926) — Writer (adaptation)
* ''Fashions for Women'' (1927) — Writer
* ''[[A Gentleman of Paris (1927 film)|A Gentleman of Paris]]'' (1927)  (titles)
* ''The City Gone Wild'' (1927) — Writer (titles)
* ''Honeymoon Hate'' (1927) — Writer (titles)
* ''The Gay Defender'' (1927) — Writer (titles)
* ''Two Flaming Youths'' (1927) — Writer (titles)
* ''Love and Learn'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Last Command (1928 film)|The Last Command]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[Something Always Happens (1928 film)|Something Always Happens]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[A Night of Mystery]]'' (1928/I) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[Abie's Irish Rose (1928 film)|Abie's Irish Rose]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[His Tiger Lady]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Dragnet]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Magnificent Flirt]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Mating Call]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles), Newspaperman (uncredited)
* ''[[The Water Hole]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[Take Me Home (1928 film)|Take Me Home]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[Avalanche (1928 film)|Avalanche]]'' (1928) — Writer (screenplay) (titles)
* ''[[The Barker]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (lost film)|Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[Three Weekends]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[What a Night! (1928 film)|What a Night!]]'' (1928) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Love Doctor]]'' (1929) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Canary Murder Case (film)|The Canary Murder Case]]'' (1929) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Dummy (1929 film)|The Dummy]]'' (1929) — Writer
* ''[[The Man I Love (1929 film)|The Man I Love]]'' (1929) — Writer (story)
* ''[[Thunderbolt (1929 film)|Thunderbolt]]'' (1929) — Writer
* ''[[The Mighty]]'' (1929) — Writer (titles)
* ''[[The Vagabond King (1930 film)|The Vagabond King]]'' (1930) — Writer (screenplay) (story)
* ''[[Men Are Like That]]'' (1930) — Writer (adaptation)
* ''[[Honey (1930 film)|Honey]]'' (1930) — Writer (scenario) (titles)
* ''[[Ladies Love Brutes]]'' (1930) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''True to the Navy'' (1930) — Writer (dialogue)
* ''Love Among the Millionaires'' (1930) — Writer (dialogue)
* ''[[Laughter (1930 film)|Laughter]]'' (1930) — Writer
* ''[[The Royal Family of Broadway]]'' (1930) — Writer (adaptation)
* ''Salga de la cocina'' (1931) — Writer (adaptation)
* ''[[The Front Page (1931 film)|The Front Page]]'' (1931) — Bit (uncredited)
* ''[[Every Woman Has Something]]'' (1931) — Writer (adaptation)
* ''[[Man of the World (film)|Man of the World]]'' (1931) — Writer (screenplay) (story)
* ''[[Ladies' Man (1931 film)|Ladies' Man]]'' (1931) — Writer
* ''[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]'' (1931) — producer
* ''[[The Lost Squadron]]'' (1932) — Writer (additional dialogue)
* ''[[Dancers in the Dark]]'' (1932) — Writer
* ''[[Girl Crazy]]'' (1932) — Writer
* ''[[Million Dollar Legs (1932 film)|Million Dollar Legs]]'' (1932) — producer
* ''[[Horse Feathers]]'' (1932) — producer (uncredited)
* ''Another Language'' (1933) — Writer
* ''[[Dinner at Eight (1933 film)|Dinner at Eight]]'' (1933) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''[[Meet the Baron]]'' (1933) — Writer
* ''[[Duck Soup (1933 film)|Duck Soup]]'' (1933) — producer (uncredited)
* ''[[The Show-Off (1934 film)|The Show-Off]]'' (1934) — Writer
* ''Stamboul Quest'' (1934) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''[[After Office Hours]]'' (1935) — Writer
* ''[[Escapade (1935 film)|Escapade]]'' (1935) — Writer
* ''[[Three Maxims]]'' (1936) — Writer
* ''[[Love in Exile (film)|Love in Exile]]'' (1936) — Writer
* ''[[John Meade's Woman]]'' (1937) — Writer
* ''[[The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937 film)|The Emperor's Candlesticks]]'' (1937) — contributor to dialogue (uncredited)
* ''[[My Dear Miss Aldrich]]'' (1937) — Writer (original story and screenplay)
* ''[[It's a Wonderful World (1939 film)|It's a Wonderful World]]'' (1939) — Writer (story)
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939) — Writer (uncredited)
* ''[[The Ghost Comes Home]]'' (1940) — Writer (contributing writer)
* ''[[Comrade X]]'' (1940) — Writer (uncredited)
* ''[[Keeping Company]]'' (1940) — Writer (story)
* ''[[The Wild Man of Borneo (film)|The Wild Man of Borneo]]'' (1941) — Writer (play)
* ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) — Writer (screenplay), Newspaperman (uncredited)
* ''[[Rise and Shine (film)|Rise and Shine]]'' (1941) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''[[This Time for Keeps]]'' (1942) — Writer (characters)
* ''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]'' (1942) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''[[Stand By for Action]]'' (1942) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''[[The Good Fellows]]'' (1943) — Writer (play)
* ''[[Christmas Holiday]]'' (1944) — Writer
* ''[[The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)|The Enchanted Cottage]]'' (1945) — Writer
* ''[[The Spanish Main]]'' (1945) — Writer (screenplay)
* ''[[A Woman's Secret]]'' (1949) — Writer (screenplay), producer
* ''[[The Pride of St. Louis]]'' (1952) — Writer
* ''[[Lux Video Theatre]]'' (TV series episode, 1955): ''[[The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)|The Enchanted Cottage]]'' — Writer (original screenplay)
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==Works==
{{Incomplete list|date=November 2016}}

===Essays and reporting===
* {{cite magazine |author=H. J. M. |date=February 28, 1925 |title=The "World" is with us |department=Behind the News |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=4–5 }}
* {{cite magazine |author=H. J. M. |author-mask=1 |date=June 6, 1925 |title=The theatre |department=Critique |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=1 |issue=16 |pages=13 }}
* {{cite magazine |author=H. J. M. |author-mask=1 |date=June 13, 1925 |title=The theatre |department=Critique |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=1 |issue=17 |pages=15 }}

===Short Fiction===
* Mankiewicz, Herman J., "The Big Game," ''[[The New Yorker]]'', November 14, 1925, p.&nbsp;11
* Mankiewicz, Herman J., "A New Yorker in the provinces," ''[[The New Yorker]]'', February 6, 1926, p.&nbsp;16

===[[Novelization]]===
* {{cite book |author1=Browning, Tod |author2=Herman J. Mankiewicz |name-list-style=amp |title=The Road to Mandalay: a Thrilling Throbbing Romance of Singapore |location=New York |publisher=Jacobsen Hodgkinson Corporation |year=1926 }} for [[The Road to Mandalay (1926 film)]]

===Plays===
* {{cite book |author1=Kaufman, George S. |author2=Herman J. Mankiewicz |name-list-style=amp |title=The good fellow : a play in three acts |location=New York |publisher=S. French |year=1931 <!--|lccn=43047581-->}}

===Critical studies, reviews and biography===
* {{cite book |author=Meryman, Richard |title=Mank : the wit, world and life of Herman Mankiewicz |year=1978 }}
*[https://sydneylstern.com Stern, Sydney Ladensohn] (2019). ''[https://sydneylstern.com The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics]''

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* Kael, Pauline, "[[Raising Kane]]", in ''The Citizen Kane Book'', (1971) Bantam Books
* Lambert, Gavin, ''On Cukor'' (1972) Putnam
* Marion, Frances, ''Off With Their Heads'' (1972) Macmillan
* Naremore, James, ''The Magic World of Orson Welles'' (1978) Oxford University Press

==External links==
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