Capable, veteran Hollywood scenarist whose floundering career was given a temporary boost as co-screenwriter of "Citizen Kane" (1941). Mankiewicz had hit his peak in the early 1930s producing, and contributing uncredited dialogue to, a number of Paramount's wildest comedies such as "Million Dollar Legs" (1932) and "Duck Soup" (1933). After "Kane" his career resumed its downward path, hastened by…
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