"The Last Tycoon" is an admiring roman à clef about Irving Thalberg.
Mankiewicz offended Fitzgerald by rewriting his dialogue; he saw its literary merit but thought it was ill-suited to performance.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz became a director and his directorial debut, "Dragonwyck," showed him to be one of Hollywood's most original filmmakers.
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