?Gentlemen, it?s a wonderful art we?re doing business in.? That line, a pungent summation of the movie industry, is from ?The Barefoot Contessa? and was penned by writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the most renowned member of a behind-the-scenes Hollywood dynasty that continues to thrive. The Mankiewiczes often provided stars with the kind of dialogue that makes legends. It was Joe who had Bette Davis telling partygoers to ?fasten your seat belts? in ?All About Eve,? and it was Joe?s brother Herman, along with Orson Welles, who gave us ?Rosebud? in ?Citizen Kane.? Tom (Joe?s son) was one of the fellows who put those clever quips into the mouth of James Bond. And Tom (1942-2010) also wrote (with Robert Crane) ?My Life As a Mankiewicz? a memoir of his years in Hollywood.
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