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‘Mank’ Fact Check: Did Herman Mankiewicz Really Help 100 People Escape Nazi Germany?

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(Spoiler alert: Do not read on if you haven’t seen David Fincher’s “Mank.”)In David Fincher’s “Mank,” Lily Collins’ character Rita Alexander hears that her boss, “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J.

Mankiewicz, helped 100 people flee out of Nazi Germany. But is that true?Somewhat. In Richard Meryman’s biography “Mank: The Wit, World and Life of Herman Mankiewicz,” Meryman wrote, “Herman became the official sponsor for hundreds of German refugees and took responsibility for total strangers fleeing to America.

Sam Jaffe protested that he could not possibly fulfill these obligations. Herman continued to sign a stack of affidavits and said, ‘Yes, but the government doesn’t know that.'”According to “Film History Vol.

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