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Talking Film

Season 1 · Episode 42

A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz

0.0August 31, 1983

The renowned director talks about his career and the artists he has launched.

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Episode 1The Producer (1)
Episode 2The Director
Episode 3The Screenwriter
Episode 4Acting in the Cinema
Episode 5Cinematography
Episode 6Designing Movies
Episode 7The Making of a Motion Picture (1)
Episode 8Sex and Violence in the Cinema
Episode 9How Movies Are Sold
Episode 10A Portrait of John Ford (1)
Episode 11Zanuck
Episode 12The Hollywood Ten: An Interview with Writer Ring Lardner Jr.
Episode 13The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (1)
Episode 14The Western
Episode 15Hooray for Hollywood
Episode 16A Portrait of George Stevens (1)
Episode 17The Critic
Episode 18More Special Effects
Episode 19The Nightmare People: Horror in the Cinema
Episode 20The Animators
Episode 21The Cinema of John Huston
Episode 22The Cinema of Frank Capra (1)
Episode 23More Film Criticism
Episode 24Powell and Pressburger
Episode 25Thirty Years of British Cinema
Episode 26David Lean and Sir Carol Reed
Episode 27Women in the Cinema
Episode 28The Serial
Episode 29The Cinema of Henry Hathaway
Episode 30The Business of Directing
Episode 31The Making of a Motion Picture (2)
Episode 32The Making of a Motion Picture (3)
Episode 33A Conversation with Pauline Kael
Episode 34Gods and Goddesses of the Cinema
Episode 35The Cinema of Elia Kazan
Episode 36Anatomy of Suspense
Episode 37The Making of a Motion Picture (4)
Episode 38The Big Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox
Episode 39A Conversation with Otto Preminger
Episode 40A Portrait of George Stevens (2)
Episode 41A Portrait of John Ford (2)
Episode 42A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Episode 43The Producer (3)
Episode 44Two Film Critics
Episode 45An Interview with Samuel Fuller
Episode 46Women in the Cinema: The Writer
Episode 47Stars of the Cinema: Stewart Granger
Episode 48The Cinema of King Vidor
Episode 49The Making of a Musical
Episode 50The Western Revisited
Episode 51Music in the Cinema
Episode 52The Screenwriter (2)
Episode 53Cinematography (2)
Episode 54Special Effects
Episode 55The Cinema of Henry King
Episode 56The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (2)
Episode 57Stars of the Cinema: Richard Widmark
Episode 58The Cinema of Frank Capra (2)
Episode 59The Classic Western
Episode 60An Afternoon with Jack Lemmon
Episode 61Two Tragic Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift
Episode 62The Marx Brothers and Their Writers
Episode 63The Cinematic Genius of Rouben Mamoulian
Episode 64All Singing, All Dancing
Episode 65The Music Men
Episode 66The Screenwriter (3)
Episode 67Lotusland
Episode 68Hollywood Portraits: David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock
Episode 69The Producer (2)
Episode 70Stars on Stars
Episode 71Mystery Film and the Detective on Screen
Episode 72Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
Episode 73Superstars: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
Episode 74An Interview with Greer Garson
Episode 75The Preston Sturges Story (1)
Episode 76The Preston Sturges Story (2)
Episode 77Two Film Directors: Ronald Neame and Richard Fleischer
Episode 78A Portrait of Billy Wilder
Episode 79Two Film Critics: Richard Schickel and David Robinson
Episode 80Hollywood Portraits: Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky