NEW YORK -- What's It About: 1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish "Citizen Kane." Oscar Nominations: ...

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953; New York City) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941). Earlier, he was the Berlin ...

Looking for a new historical film to add to your Netflix queue? Meet the movie that's bound to become your newest obsession: Mank. The new film, which currently boasts an 88 percent score on Rotten ...

Orson Welles, standing, is shown in a scene from “Citizen Kane,” which was co-written by Welles and Wilkes-Barre native Herman J. Mankiewicz. For the past year or so, I’ve been enthralled by this ...

In David Fincher’s “Mank,” Lily Collins’ character Rita Alexander hears that her boss, “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, helped 100 people flee out of Nazi Germany. But is that true?

Herman Mankiewicz’s childhood in Wilkes-Barre inspired the iconic "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane. Herman Mankiewicz’s childhood in Wilkes-Barre inspired the iconic "Rosebud" in Citizen Kane. After his bike ...

When he was toiling over the script for “The Wizard of Oz,” the story goes, the legendary screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz thought it was so important to create a sense of time and place that, in ...

For all the piles of research and miles of column inches that have been devoted to it, the controversy over the creative authorship of “Citizen Kane” — a kerfuffle that’s now 50 years old, and one ...