Rita Alexander (I) on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Lily Collins as Rita Alexander and Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz in Mank All of Mankiewicz’s demons have made it into the movie, and they were considerable. Mankiewicz's typist, Alexander, was a real person and in fact lent her name to Citizen Kane's Susan Alexander. Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Foremost was his drinking, which Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s book The Brothers Mankiewicz traces all the way back to the beers Herman drank during a summer spent working because he was too young to take up his place at Columbia. Rita Alexander - Herman Mankiewicz. Collins is best known for her performance in 'Rules Don't Apply'. Daniel Alexander Lov (@danielalexanderloverita) on TikTok | 186 Likes. Mank is a biographical drama about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his role, or purported role, in the creation of Citizen Kane , the first film directed by and featuring Orson Welles. Frank Mankiewicz — who was Robert F. Kennedy’s press secretary, ... drawn largely from interviews with John Houseman and Rita Alexander, who helped Mankiewicz edit his overlong script. CLOSE UP OF MANK - OUR FIRST LOOK Both are treated kindly, although neither could be considered as anything close to “fleshed out.” Mank Movie Review: Gary Oldman is 62. Anita D'Souza (74), Sturrock Road, Falnir, Mangalore, wife of Winston D'Souza, mother of Deepak / Kim and Venita / Deep, grandmother of Caden & Ella, Lynn & Ashton, passed away on April 23, 2021. A German housekeeper, Fraulein Freda (Monika Grossman), will tend to Mank’s health care, while a prim and proper young British secretary named Rita Alexander (Lily Collins) will take dictation. Mankiewicz was accompanied by a nurse, secretary Rita Alexander, Houseman, and a 300-page rough script of the project that Welles had written. Rita Alexander: Will you … In "Mank," Lily Collins' Rita Alexander hears that Herman J. Mankiewicz helped 100 people flee out of Nazi Germany. Lily Collins also joins the cast as “the voice of everyday decency,” playing Mankiewicz’s secretary, Rita Alexander. Lily Collins as Rita Alexander, Herman's secretary Lily Collins (Getty Images) Actor Lily Collins will play the role of Herman's secretary who was the inspiration behind Susan Alexander Kane's name. 21 Fans. In 1940, Herman J. Mankiewicz was 33. But is that true? Ben Mankiewicz on CBS: “The debate over who wrote Citizen Kane has been raging for decades. 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