The Notorious History of Drunken Hollywood

Larry Getlen digs through Hollywood’s sordid history looking at some legendary Tinseltown drunks.

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By the early 1930s, Herman J. Mankiewicz was a screenwriting genius who had secretly helped construct classic films such as “Monkey Business” and “Duck Soup” by the Marx Brothers and “The Wizard of Oz.”

He was also, according to a new book by author Mark Bailey, a raging drunk who picked fights everywhere he went and insulted everyone from studio execs to actors in his films.

Mankiewicz had once been friends with newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and attended many a party at San Simeon, the publisher’s infamous mansion. The relationship ended, however, when Hearst banned Mankiewicz after the screenwriter kept trying to get Hearst’s mistress, Marion Davies, drunk.

Mankiewicz sought revenge. He began writing a script about a newspaper mogul and used everything he knew about Hearst to humiliate him, including basing one character on Davies in a harshly negative portrait and even appropriating what he knew to be Hearst’s special nickname for Davies’ clitoris: Rosebud.

The script, of course, was “Citizen Kane,” which would become a cinematic landmark and win Mankiewicz an Oscar.

Hearst, though, got his own revenge several years later. After Mankiewicz crashed into another car while drunk — a non-story, since no one was hurt — it became front-page news in all of Hearst’s newspapers, destroying the writer’s reputation.

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The Notorious History of Drunken Hollywood

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