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This 3 page paper discusses the films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and the fact that he was a frustrated theater director. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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in Geists book. Like all biographies of show business luminaries, Geists book is filled with tell-all moments and insights into arguably one of the greatest directors in film. But apparently
JLM was also extremely difficult - he threw a book at Geist at one point in their interview process - and perhaps some of his frustration grew out of the
one thing that seems to have colored all his work: JLM was a frustrated theater director. There is a sort of snobbism that pervades the entertainment industry and separates it
into three different categories. There are TV actors; one step up from them are the film actors, and at the top of the heap are the people who work on
the stage. Stage actors have the reputation they do because they dont have the chance to go back and reshoot a scene if they get it wrong. Theyre performing live
and if they make a mistake, they have to find a way to cover it up and keep going. But even above the technical aspects of learning lines, learning
blocking and overcoming stage fright, stage actors have to be able to convince an audience that they are the characters theyre playing. This of course is the task of all
actors, but here, they have to do it in real time, in front of an audience. They have to be so far "into" the person theyre playing that the audience
believes implicitly that theyre watching the character, not the actor. Thus the stage, and in particular Broadway, has a prestige and reputation that Hollywood lacks. The salary of performers
on Broadway is "scale"; they dont get the millions of dollars that studios are willing to pay the actors who make successful films. The difference may also help to explain
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