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Born March 23, 1890 • New York City • New York
Died July 26, 1960 (aged 70) • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1957) • Academy Award (1954) • Academy Award (1953) • Academy Award (1952) • Academy Award (1950) • Academy Award (1947) • Academy Award (1945) • Academy Award (1942) • Academy Award (1941) • Academy Award (1935) • Academy Award (1930)
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker
Samuel Goldwyn
American filmmaker and producer
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O’Hara
American actress
Beaton, Sir Cecil
Sir Cecil Beaton
British photographer and costume and production designer
Alfred Junge
German motion-picture set designer
Robert Z. Leonard
American director
The Bishop's Wife
Henry Koster
American director
Invaders from Mars
William Cameron Menzies
American set designer
Irving Thalberg; Norma Shearer
Irving Thalberg
American motion-picture executive
Louis B. Mayer.
Louis B. Mayer
American producer
Kay Thompson
American entertainer and writer
June Mathis
American scriptwriter
Howard Dietz
American executive and songwriter
Robert Edmond Jones
American theatrical designer
Alexandre Trauner
French set designer
Red Buttons
American actor
Victor McLaglen
American actor
Patty Duke
American actress
Miyoshi Umeki
Japanese-born actress
James Goldman
American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist

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