Joseph L. Mankiewicz Movies

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

A documentary about and an interview with Hollywood actress Bette Davis about her life and career from the late 1920s to the 1980s on stage and...

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film...

After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional...

A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the...

A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left...

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony,...

Bostonites George and Catherine Apley live a proper life in a social circle. However, their daughter Eleanor's love for Howard Boulton and their son...

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

Barbers Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub have opened a barbershop in an Indian reservation, where they have no customers. When suddenly a white man asks...

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

A singer is involved with two women in his life, one a "good" girl and one a "bad" one."

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Catherine Moreau is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress...

A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a...

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.