Cheryl Bray Lower is a journalist and award-winning news photographer. She is the only scholar to have had complete access to the private papers of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. He has published numerous works on the English, French, and Latin literature of the later Middle Ages, and is the translator, with William Kibler and others, of several anthologies of medieval texts. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      PART I. Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Notes on his Life and Career      A Biographical Sketch      Film Chronology      PART II. Essays      Mankiewicz’s Dark Cinema      The Mankiewicz Woman      Filmed Theatre      Literary Adaptations      PART III. Guide to Resources      Notes on the Resources      Annotated Bibliography      Filmography      Appendix A. Miscellaneous and Unrealized Mankiewicz Projects      Appendix B. Film Festivals Honoring Mankiewicz      Appendix C. Awards      Index

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